Senior Fortinet Network Engineer

DescriptionKforce's client in NYC is seeking a highly skilled Senior Azure Network Engineer to support and optimize complex Azure and hybrid cloud networking environments. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who excels at troubleshooting network connectivity issues, investigating routing and DNS challenges, supporting incident response activities, and validating network resiliency and failover capabilities. This is not a network architecture redesign position. We are looking for someone who can quickly identify root causes, resolve issues, and ensure the stability and performance of mission-critical cloud infrastructure.Duties:* Troubleshoot and resolve complex networking issues across Azure and hybrid cloud environments* Investigate routing, VPN, DNS, firewall, and connectivity problems impacting business-critical applications* Support incident response efforts and work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to restore services* Analyze route propagation, effective routes, asymmetric routing, and network failover scenarios* Validate high-availability, disaster recovery, and resiliency configurations through testing and analysis* Support connectivity between Azure, on-premises environments, and AWS* Review and troubleshoot existing Terraform configurations related to network deployments* Provide recommendations to improve reliability, availability, and operational performance of cloud networking environmentsRequirements* To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed* Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plusMust have experience with:* Strong routing troubleshooting* BGP* Route propagation* Asymmetric routing* Route tables and effective routes* Network failover analysis* Azure networking* VNet Peering* Azure Firewall* NSGs* UDRs* Load Balancers* Private Endpoints* Private DNS* Azure Application Gateway* Azure API Management* DNS troubleshooting* Azure Private DNS* Conditional forwarding* Split-horizon DNS* DNS resolution analysis* Bind* VPN troubleshooting* Site-to-site VPN* IPSec* Azure to AWS connectivity* Terraform (ability to read and troubleshoot existing code)Nice to have experience with:* FortiGate* AKS networking* Linux networking* HA/DR validation and failover testingJob TypeContractCompensation47 - $47