Network Engineer
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What’s in it for you?
Own critical technology: Take technical ownership of shared network security infrastructure and Fortinet platforms.
Work across the Fortinet ecosystem: Apply your expertise across firewalls, SD-WAN, switching, wireless and secure access technologies.
Solve complex challenges: Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, platform improvements and technical escalations.
Make a lasting impact: Improve engineering standards, strengthen operational resilience and mentor fellow engineers.
Keep evolving: Work across a diverse technology environment where security, reliability and continuous improvement matter.
About You:
You’re a hands-on network security engineer who enjoys taking ownership, solving complex problems and ensuring critical infrastructure performs at its best. You combine strong technical expertise with a proactive mindset, clear communication and a commitment to delivering reliable customer outcomes.
You’ll bring:
Experience managing and supporting production network security infrastructure in an ISP, managed services provider or large enterprise environment.
A methodical approach to troubleshooting, root cause analysis, risk assessment and continuous improvement.
Strong ownership of incidents, changes, upgrades and technical outcomes.
The ability to collaborate with technical teams, vendors and customers while communicating complex issues clearly.
A willingness to share knowledge, mentor others and build sustainable engineering capability.
Required Skills:
- 3–5+ years of hands-on network security engineering experience.
- Advanced FortiGate and next-generation firewall expertise, including firewall policies, IPsec VPNs, high availability and SD-WAN troubleshooting.
- Hands-on administration of FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiAuthenticator (FAC), including logging, authentication, certificates and identity integrations.
- Strong networking fundamentals across BGP, OSPF, IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, QoS and routing and switching.
- Operational experience with FortiSwitch, FortiAP and FortiSASE.
- Experience managing production infrastructure, security patching, firmware upgrades, change control, backup and recovery.
- Strong technical documentation skills, including configuration records, operational runbooks and support procedures.
- A degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Fortinet Certified Professional (NSE 7 or higher) in Network Security, SD-WAN and SASE, or equivalent demonstrable specialist expertise.
- ITIL Foundation certification or practical experience with formal incident, problem and change management.
Desirable experience:
FortiPortal, SIEM/SOC integrations and security monitoring.
FortiSASE capabilities, including secure web gateway (SWG), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), CASB and secure private access.
Automation and configuration templates, including Jinja.
Multi-tenant managed security services and high-availability data centre environments.
Fortinet Certified Solution Specialist (FCSS) certification.
Additional information
If you’re ready to take ownership of complex network security platforms and help build secure, resilient technology services, we’d love to hear from you.
Qualifications
- 3–5+ years of hands-on network security engineering experience.
- Advanced FortiGate and next-generation firewall expertise, including firewall policies, IPsec VPNs, high availability and SD-WAN troubleshooting.
- Hands-on administration of FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiAuthenticator (FAC), including logging, authentication, certificates and identity integrations.
- Strong networking fundamentals across BGP, OSPF, IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, QoS and routing and switching.
- Operational experience with FortiSwitch, FortiAP and FortiSASE.
- Experience managing production infrastructure, security patching, firmware upgrades, change control, backup and recovery.
- Strong technical documentation skills, including configuration records, operational runbooks and support procedures.
- A degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Fortinet Certified Professional (NSE 7 or higher) in Network Security, SD-WAN and SASE, or equivalent demonstrable specialist expertise.
- ITIL Foundation certification or practical experience with formal incident, problem and change management.
- FortiPortal, SIEM/SOC integrations and security monitoring.
- FortiSASE capabilities, including secure web gateway (SWG), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), CASB and secure private access.
- Automation and configuration templates, including Jinja.
- Multi-tenant managed security services and high-availability data centre environments.
- Fortinet Certified Solution Specialist (FCSS) certification.
- Additional information
- If you’re ready to take ownership of complex network security platforms and help build secure, resilient technology services, we’d love to hear from you.
- You’re a hands-on network security engineer who enjoys taking ownership, solving complex problems and ensuring critical infrastructure performs at its best. You combine strong technical expertise with a proactive mindset, clear communication and a commitment to delivering reliable customer outcomes.
- Experience managing and supporting production network security infrastructure in an ISP, managed services provider or large enterprise environment.
- A methodical approach to troubleshooting, root cause analysis, risk assessment and continuous improvement.
- Strong ownership of incidents, changes, upgrades and technical outcomes.
- The ability to collaborate with technical teams, vendors and customers while communicating complex issues clearly.
- A willingness to share knowledge, mentor others and build sustainable engineering capability.
About Macquarie Technology Group
Public Australian technology group providing cloud, data-centre, cybersecurity and telecommunications services to businesses and government.
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