Senior Network Deployment Security Engineer (Onsite - Care, NC)(In-Person Interview)

Position: Network Security Engineer
Location: Cary, NC (Onsite)
Duration: Long term
Interview: In-Person
No of Openings: 8
Tax Term: W2

Job Description:

• Lead teams responsible for Check Point to Fortinet migration activities.
• Oversee deployment, configuration, and optimization of FortiGate firewalls.
• Analyze existing Check Point firewall policies, VPNs, NAT configurations, and security architecture.
• Coordinate migration planning, execution, testing, and rollback strategies.
• Lead network segmentation and security modernization initiatives.
• Guide deployment engineers through implementation and troubleshooting activities.
• Work closely with NetDevOps and SRE teams to support automation and operational improvements.
• Participate in maintenance windows, change management, and production rollouts.
• Ensure all migration work follows enterprise security and compliance standards.
• Provide mentorship, technical leadership, and escalation support. Required Skills
• 7 years of network deployment or network security engineering experience.
• Extensive Fortinet FortiGate experience.
• Strong Check Point firewall administration experience.
• Experience leading firewall migration projects.
• Cisco routing and switching expertise.
• VPN technologies (IPSec, SSL VPN, Site-to-Site VPN).
• FortiManager and centralized policy management.
• Firewall policy analysis and migration.
• High Availability (HA) firewall deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting and leadership skills. Preferred Skills
• Fortinet NSE 4/5/7 certifications.
• CCNP or CCNP Security.
• Arista networking experience.
• Python automation experience.
• Financial services experience.

Pay: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour

Experience:

• network deployment or network security engineering: 10 years (Required)
• Check Point to Fortinet migration activities: 7 years (Required)
• deployment, and optimization of FortiGate firewalls: 7 years (Required)
• Extensive Fortinet FortiGat: 5 years (Required)
• Strong Check Point firewall administration: 5 years (Required)
• leading firewall migration projects: 6 years (Required)
• FortiManager and centralized policy management.: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• CCNP Security (Preferred)
• CCNP (Preferred)
• Fortinet NSE 4/5/7 (Preferred)

Location:

• Cary, NC 27511 (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 100% (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $50 - $60