Retail IT Network Engineer — Fortinet, NAC & Cloud (LA)

Goodwin Recruiting; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health & wellness benefits

Professional development incl. funded–

Hands-on projects and certifications

Job summary

Goodwin Recruiting seeks a Retail IT Network Engineer to join a 50+ location enterprise network. You will configure Fortinet firewalls, VPNs, switches, and NAC while collaborating across a distributed team.

Relocation to Los Angeles is provided, with regional travel up to 25%. The role focuses on hybrid cloud networking with AWS Transit Gateway and VPCs, alongside ongoing training and certifications.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of multi-site network operations experience with hands-on configuration and troubleshooting of firewalls, routing, switching, and VPNs.
• Hands-on enterprise experience with FortiGate and FortiManager; FortiSwitch, FortiNAC, and FortiAnalyzer is highly desirable.
• Experience supporting a distributed network across 20+ sites; solid firewall policy design and secure change management.
• Hybrid cloud networking experience with VPCs, VPNs, and Transit Gateway; Azure experience not a substitute.

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Fortinet firewalls, switches, routing, VPNs, and connectivity across 50+ locations.
• Lead NAC deployment activities with FortiNAC, endpoint profiling, posture assessment, and 802.1X enforcement.
• Implement identity-based authentication, dynamic VLAN assignment, and micro-segmentation across devices and store systems.
• Audit, migrate, and consolidate distributed networks using FortiManager administration.
• Maintain secure site-to-cloud connectivity using VPNs, SD-WAN, AWS VPCs, and Transit Gateway architectures.
• Manage FortiGate policies, improve rule hygiene, and support change control.
• Serve as Tier 3 escalation for routing, switching, firewall, VPN, and site connectivity issues.

Skills

Multi-site network operations

Firewall configuration & troublesh.

VPN & routing troubleshooting

Security design & least-privilege

On-call & maintenance readiness

Tools

FortiGate/FortiManager/FortiNAC/FortiAnalyzer

FortiSwitch

AWS VPCs & Transit Gateway

Job description

Goodwin Recruiting seeks a Retail IT Network Engineer to join a 50+ location enterprise network. You will configure Fortinet firewalls, VPNs, switches, and NAC while collaborating across a distributed team.

Relocation to Los Angeles is provided, with regional travel up to 25%. The role focuses on hybrid cloud networking with AWS Transit Gateway and VPCs, alongside ongoing training and certifications.