Network Consultant - Consultancy

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 67,500 - 82,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% bonus

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited in London is seeking a Network Consultant to join our rapidly growing IT services team. The role focuses on migrating and integrating customer environments into a centrally managed Fortinet firewall platform, with hands-on deployment across complex networks.

You will own implementation and migration activities, work directly with customers, and help deliver a major transformation programme.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Fortinet/FortiGate experience.
• Good understanding of BGP routing.
• Experience configuring IPsec and site-to-site VPNs.
• Strong firewall policy configuration experience.
• Experience across enterprise networking environments.
• Comfortable working directly with customers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience delivering implementation or migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Migrating customer environments into Fortinet firewall infrastructure.
• Advertising customer networks using BGP.
• Configuring and implementing FortiGate firewall policies.
• Building and supporting site-to-site IPsec VPN connectivity.
• Managing routing and secure connectivity between environments.
• Supporting customer network onboarding and migration activities.
• Working with Fortinet technology deployed within AWS.
• Troubleshooting complex routing, firewall, and connectivity challenges.
• Planning and implementing technical changes.
• Working directly with customers and technical stakeholders.

Skills

Fortinet FortiGate

BGP routing

IPsec VPNs

Firewall policies

Enterprise networks

Customer facing

Stakeholder comms

Project delivery

Tools

FortiManager

FortiAnalyzer

AWS Fortinet

Job description

Ready to take the next step in your career?

Join a specialist IT solutions provider delivering networking, security, and infrastructure services to organisations of all sizes. Working with leading technology partners, the organisation provides end-to-end solutions, from consultancy and design through to implementation and ongoing support.

The rapidly growing technology consultancy is looking to hire a Network Consultant to join their team in London. The role will focus on a major client transformation programme, helping migrate third-party customer environments into a centrally managed, cloud-hosted Fortinet firewall platform.

This is a hands-on, project-focused opportunity for someone who enjoys working across complex network and security environments, with ownership across implementation, migration and customer engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Migrating customer environments into Fortinet firewall infrastructure.
• Advertising customer networks using BGP.
• Configuring and implementing FortiGate firewall policies.
• Building and supporting site-to-site IPsec VPN connectivity.
• Managing routing and secure connectivity between environments.
• Supporting customer network onboarding and migration activities.
• Working with Fortinet technology deployed within AWS.
• Troubleshooting complex routing, firewall, and connectivity challenges.
• Planning and implementing technical changes.
• Working directly with customers and technical stakeholders.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on Fortinet/FortiGate experience.
• Good understanding of BGP routing.
• Experience configuring IPsec and site-to-site VPNs.
• Strong firewall policy configuration experience.
• Experience across enterprise networking environments.
• Comfortable working directly with customers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience delivering implementation or migration projects.

Highly Advantageous:

• Fortinet within AWS environments.
• Cloud networking exposure.
• FortiManager.
• FortiAnalyzer.
• CCNP-level networking knowledge.
• Multi-site customer migration experience.

Benefits:

• 10% company bonus.
• Hybrid working in London.
• Customer-facing project delivery.
• No BAU support responsibilities.
  • The successful engineer will be one of the first technical resources into a major non-fixed-price engagement, so there is real opportunity to take ownership, build customer trust and become a key part of the project.
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise transformation projects.

Salary:

• Up to £75,000 basic salary