Retail IT Network Engineer (Fortinet) - Portland Relocation

Goodwin Recruiting; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation allowance

Health and wellness coverage

Funding for training & industry certs

Collaborative engineering team

Job summary

Goodwin Recruiting is seeking a hands-on Retail IT Network Engineer to support a 50+ location enterprise network in Portland. You will work with Fortinet networking, Zero Trust security, NAC, and AWS connectivity to secure and modernize our infrastructure.

You will own meaningful engineering projects from day one, collaborating with senior engineers and pursuing funded training and certifications. This role requires onsite work and occasional regional travel.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of multi-site network operations experience with hands-on firewall, routing, switching, and VPN troubleshooting.
• Hands-on enterprise experience with FortiGate and FortiManager; FortiSwitch, FortiNAC, FortiAnalyzer desirable.
• Experience supporting a distributed network across 20+ sites; strong change management and least-privilege design.

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Fortinet devices across 50+ locations.
• Lead NAC deployment, FortiNAC implementation, endpoint profiling, and 802.1X enforcement.
• Implement identity-based authentication, dynamic VLANs, and micro-segmentation for corporate devices and store systems.

Skills

Fortinet networking

Firewall configuration

VPNs

FortiGate

FortiManager

Hybrid cloud networking

AWS VPCs

On-site work

Tools

FortiGate

FortiManager

FortiSwitch

FortiNAC

FortiAnalyzer

Job description

Goodwin Recruiting is seeking a hands-on Retail IT Network Engineer to support a 50+ location enterprise network in Portland. You will work with Fortinet networking, Zero Trust security, NAC, and AWS connectivity to secure and modernize our infrastructure.

You will own meaningful engineering projects from day one, collaborating with senior engineers and pursuing funded training and certifications. This role requires onsite work and occasional regional travel.