Senior Network Security Lead – Fortinet & Palo Alto

CyberCX; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CyberCX is seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead Network Security to join our Managed Security Engineering team in Australia. The role centers on hands-on engineering across Fortinet and Palo Alto, handling complex enterprise environments as the technical escalation point.

You will guide incident leadership, troubleshooting, design, optimisation, change delivery and ongoing service improvement, building credibility with customers and driving proactive engineering outcomes.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Fortinet / FortiGate experience.
• Strong hands-on Palo Alto Networks experience.
• Experience with FortiManager or Panorama.
• Strong understanding of routing and switching.
• Knowledge of BGP/OSPF, NAT, VPN/IPsec, HA/failover, SD-WAN.
• Experience leading major incidents and complex troubleshooting.
• Exposure to automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python) and cloud networking would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical escalation point across complex network security environments.
• Provide advanced support across Fortinet and Palo Alto platforms.
• Investigate and resolve issues including firewall policy, NAT, VPN/IPsec, routing, HA, SD-WAN.
• Lead or support major incidents with technical coordination and post-incident improvements.
• Manage and troubleshoot centrally managed environments using FortiManager and Panorama.
• Review customer environments to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Develop practical recommendations and improvement plans for customers.
• Contribute to network security architecture, design and implementation.

Skills

Fortinet / FortiGate

Palo Alto Networks

FortiManager / Panorama

routing & switching

VPN / IPsec

HA / failover

SD-WAN

incident leadership

automation (Ansible/Terraform/Python)

Tools

FortiManager

Panorama

Job description

CyberCX is seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead Network Security to join our Managed Security Engineering team in Australia. The role centers on hands-on engineering across Fortinet and Palo Alto, handling complex enterprise environments as the technical escalation point.

You will guide incident leadership, troubleshooting, design, optimisation, change delivery and ongoing service improvement, building credibility with customers and driving proactive engineering outcomes.