Senior Network Security Engineer - FortiGate & F5 (Hybrid)

Talent Corp; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 203,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Talent Corp is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer in Sydney, Australia, to architect and implement FortiGate and F5-based security solutions on a 12-month contract. The role involves hands-on firewall, load-balancer and network infra work across a large enterprise, with a focus on design, risk assessment and stakeholder guidance.

You will build, configure, and upgrade security platforms, drive performance, resilience and compliance, and collaborate with technology and business teams to

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant vendor certifications.
• Extensive network and security engineering experience in large, complex environments, ideally within financial services.
• Advanced hands-on FortiGate experience: builds, configuration, routing, policies & compliance.
• Strong F5 experience across LTM, GTM and APM: load-balancing, proxies and auth profiles.
• Routing and switching experience including BGP, OSPF, etc.
• Experience designing high-level and detailed network security designs.
• Knowledge of IPS/IDS technologies: policy config, implementation & event analysis.
• Automation and scripting with Python, Ansible or Terraform.
• Excellent troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously within a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver network security changes and project initiatives across a large enterprise.
• Build, configure, deploy and upgrade firewall, load-balancing and network infrastructure.
• Improve performance, resilience and security.
• Produce high-level and detailed designs; assess risks.
• Provide specialist advisory to technology and business stakeholders.

Skills

FortiGate expertise

F5 experience (LTM/GTM/APM)

Network security design

Automation with Python/Ansible/Terrafo

Troubleshooting & stakeholder comms

Autonomous working

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/related

Vendor certifications (Fortinet NSE, F5, CISSP)

Tools

FortiGate firewall mgmt

F5 BIG-IP

BGP/OSPF routing

Job description

Talent Corp is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer in Sydney, Australia, to architect and implement FortiGate and F5-based security solutions on a 12-month contract. The role involves hands-on firewall, load-balancer and network infra work across a large enterprise, with a focus on design, risk assessment and stakeholder guidance.

You will build, configure, and upgrade security platforms, drive performance, resilience and compliance, and collaborate with technology and business teams to