Senior Fortinet Network Security Engineer – Onsite Sydney

Better Staff; North Sydney; On-site; AUD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Better Staff is seeking a Senior Fortinet Network Security Engineer for an onsite role in North Sydney, NSW. You will own Fortinet deployment, security policy lifecycle, and cross-functional engineering collaboration for multi-tenant MSP environments.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on Fortinet experience, strong routing/IPsec/SSL VPN knowledge, and Australian work rights. Salary ranges $155K–$175K plus Super, with permanent full-time employment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field.
• 5+ years in network security engineering and firewall administration.
• Strong Fortinet appliance configuration and management.
• Experience with MSP clients and multi-tenant environments.
• Willingness for onsite work in North Sydney, NSW and Australian work rights.

Responsibilities

• Architect, configure, administer, and optimize Fortinet firewalls for MSP clients.
• Manage routing, VLANs, IPsec/SSL VPNs, and HA clusters.
• Perform change control, incident response, and threat mitigation.
• Collaborate with IT infrastructure, helpdesk, and recruitment leadership.
• Maintain network diagrams, firewall rule sets, and runbooks.

Skills

Fortinet firewall administration

Network security engineering

MSP experience

HA architectures

TCP/IP networking

IPsec/SSL VPNs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Fortinet FortiGate

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Better Staff is seeking a Senior Fortinet Network Security Engineer for an onsite role in North Sydney, NSW. You will own Fortinet deployment, security policy lifecycle, and cross-functional engineering collaboration for multi-tenant MSP environments.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on Fortinet experience, strong routing/IPsec/SSL VPN knowledge, and Australian work rights. Salary ranges $155K–$175K plus Super, with permanent full-time employment.