Senior Network Security Engineer: SASE, IaC & Linux

Perception Point; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to design, operate, and scale our SASE architecture across both logical and physical infrastructure. You will work with Fortinet products and Linux/OpenStack environments, enhancing automation and incident response in a 24x7 NOC setting with weekend coverage.

Responsibilities include maintaining datacenter networks, building observability, and driving root-cause analysis.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in networking and security roles.
• Experience with large-scale BGP and peering.
• Proficient in network monitoring and automation.
• Experience with Fortinet products preferred.
• Strong Linux/OpenStack infrastructure knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and scale datacenter network architectures (logical and physical).
• Build and optimize monitoring and observability systems.
• Develop automation to detect and remediate network events.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive issues to resolution.
• Maintain documentation and ensure operational consistency.
• Contribute to capacity planning and technical discussions.
• Provide escalation support for production issues.

Skills

L2 switching

IP routing

BGP

OSPF

MPLS

VRRP

STP

GRE

IPsec

SNMP

Threat management

SSL inspection

Content categorization

Security frameworks

Fortinet product experience

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Independent work

Stakeholder updates

Tools

OpenStack

Terraform

Ansible

RHEL/CentOS

Ubuntu

LDAP

Web servers

SQL databases

Job description

Fortinet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to design, operate, and scale our SASE architecture across both logical and physical infrastructure. You will work with Fortinet products and Linux/OpenStack environments, enhancing automation and incident response in a 24x7 NOC setting with weekend coverage.

Responsibilities include maintaining datacenter networks, building observability, and driving root-cause analysis.