Fortinet Network Engineer — SD-WAN, On-Call, WFH

Hamilton Barnes; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two days work from home

On-call rota

On-call pay & hourly callouts

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes in Liverpool is seeking a Network Engineer to own incidents across live customer networks and implement firewall changes using Fortinet FortiGate. You will troubleshoot SD‑WAN, VPNs and routing faults and work on site with occasional work-from-home flexibility.

You'll join a North West MSP team, handling on-call duties (one week in seven) with a £450 retainer plus hourly callout pay, and 50–58k base salary.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring and troubleshooting FortiGate firewalls in production.
• SD-WAN support experience with any vendor.
• Strong routing and switching fundamentals.
• Experience owning escalated network incidents in NOC/MSP/enterprise environments.
• Ability to explain firewall fault investigations and fixes clearly.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of incidents escalated by first-line support, from initial investigation through to resolution.
• Diagnose firewall, VPN, routing and connectivity faults across customer networks.
• Troubleshoot SD-WAN incidents, including link failures and failover.
• Carry out planned firewall changes and network upgrades, verify services afterwards.
• Escalate complex faults to senior engineers with clear summaries and evidence.
• Support the Liverpool data centre, including physical patching when required.

Skills

FortiGate

SD-WAN

Routing fundamentals

Incident ownership

Firewall troubleshooting

Tools

Fortinet FortiGate

FortiManager

FortiAnalyzer

FortiOS

Cisco/Extreme networks

Job description

Hamilton Barnes in Liverpool is seeking a Network Engineer to own incidents across live customer networks and implement firewall changes using Fortinet FortiGate. You will troubleshoot SD‑WAN, VPNs and routing faults and work on site with occasional work-from-home flexibility.

You'll join a North West MSP team, handling on-call duties (one week in seven) with a £450 retainer plus hourly callout pay, and 50–58k base salary.