Banking Network Engineer II - Fortinet & SD-WAN Expert

US Metro Bank; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

US Metro Bank is seeking a Network Engineer to ensure secure, reliable network infrastructure across headquarters, branches, data centers, disaster recovery sites, and cloud environments.

You will design, implement, monitor, and troubleshoot LAN/WAN, VPN, and SD-WAN services while coordinating with MSPs, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders. Strong Fortinet/Cisco experience and regulatory awareness are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent combination of education, certifications, and relevant experience may be considered.
• 4+ years of enterprise network engineering experience supporting multi-site production environments; banking or other regulated financial-services experience is preferred.
• 3+ years of recent hands-on experience administering Fortinet/FortiGate and Cisco technologies, including firewall policy, VPN, logging, high availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Fortinet NSE 3 or higher certification, CCNA, CCNP, or comparable network/security certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, implement, monitor, and support the Bank’s network environment, including LAN, WAN, VPN, SD-WAN, and data center networks.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the Bank’s network infrastructure, including firewalls, routing, switching, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VPN, and high availability.
• Maintain secure network segmentation for users, servers, banking systems, voice, and network management traffic.
• Monitor and troubleshoot network availability, performance, security events, and configuration issues; respond to incidents and outages, coordinate corrective actions as needed.

Skills

Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco devices

Secure SD-WAN

Networking protocols

MSP coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/ Networking

4+ years network engineering

Fortinet NSE 3+ or CCNA/CCNP preferred

Tools

FortiAnalyzer

SNMP monitoring

Packet capture

Job description

US Metro Bank is seeking a Network Engineer to ensure secure, reliable network infrastructure across headquarters, branches, data centers, disaster recovery sites, and cloud environments.

You will design, implement, monitor, and troubleshoot LAN/WAN, VPN, and SD-WAN services while coordinating with MSPs, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders. Strong Fortinet/Cisco experience and regulatory awareness are required.