Fortinet & SD-WAN Lead Network Engineer (Cloud)

Charles Taylor; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Taylor seeks a Lead Network Engineer to own and advance the Fortinet security estate across Azure and AWS, driving SD-WAN, VPNs, and secure network connectivity globally.

You will lead critical investigations, perform RCA, and coordinate with vendors and partners while mentoring peers in a fast-paced, on-call, cross-functional environment. This hands-on role shapes security posture and service reliability for a cloud-first insurer tech ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Fortinet NSE 7 or equivalent senior-level certification.
• Extensive experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiClient EMS, and Fortinet SD-WAN.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident support, and root cause analysis in large-scale production environments.
• Experience leading technical proofs of concept and assessing new solutions for production.
• Experience with vendors, MSPs, and service partners to drive results.
• Strong knowledge of routing, switching, VPNs, segmentation, HA and firewall design.
• Experience with Azure and AWS cloud networking.
• WAN circuit delivery, migrations and support.
• Excellent documentation skills: diagrams, standards, procedures, RCA reports.
• Self-directed, able to work in a fast-paced global environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical owner for global Fortinet security platform and governance.
• Define Fortinet standards, lifecycle direction and platform governance.
• Configure, support, and troubleshoot Fortinet technologies and SD-WAN.
• Lead proofs of concept, pilots and technical assessments for new capabilities.
• Collaborate with Fortinet, carriers, MSPs and partners to resolve issues and evolve platform.
• Serve as senior escalation point for complex incidents globally.
• Perform root-cause diagnostics and implement permanent fixes.
• Produce high-quality runbooks, standards and RCA reports.
• Maintain cloud networking services in Azure and AWS, incl. firewalls and VPNs.
• Manage site-to-site IPSec VPNs and hybrid connectivity across environments.
• Support global branch networking, WAN activations, migrations, decommissions, fault resolution.
• Patch and upgrade network infra per security and lifecycle policies.
• Work with cross-functional teams for stability and new business solutions.
• Support change planning, governance and technical review of network changes.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Fortinet NSE 7

FortiGate

FortiManager

FortiAnalyzer

FortiClient EMS

Fortinet SD-WAN

Network troubleshooting

Major incident support

Root cause analysis

POCs / proof of concept

Vendor & partner engagement

Routing & switching

VPNs & segmentation

Cloud networking (Azure/AWS)

WAN circuit delivery

Documentation & runbooks

On-call / incident rotation

Tools

Fortinet suite

Fortinet security platforms

Job description

Charles Taylor seeks a Lead Network Engineer to own and advance the Fortinet security estate across Azure and AWS, driving SD-WAN, VPNs, and secure network connectivity globally.

You will lead critical investigations, perform RCA, and coordinate with vendors and partners while mentoring peers in a fast-paced, on-call, cross-functional environment. This hands-on role shapes security posture and service reliability for a cloud-first insurer tech ecosystem.