Perimeter Design Engineer | 806

Perimeter Design Engineer

Location: United States
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Cybersecurity / Technology

About the Role

We’re looking for a Perimeter Design Engineer to join a Security Engineering team supporting enterprise-wide cybersecurity initiatives.

This role is centered on Fortinet firewall technologies and enterprise perimeter security, with a strong focus on designing secure, scalable, and resilient solutions. You’ll contribute to initiatives such as new security deployments, infrastructure modernization, network segmentation, data center transformations, and technology lifecycle projects.

You’ll also have the opportunity to influence how security solutions are designed across the organization by developing technical standards, design patterns, and reference architectures while partnering closely with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, application, and operations teams.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Developing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for firewall and perimeter security solutions.

• Designing and evaluating firewall policies, NAT strategies, VPN connectivity, segmentation, and DMZ architectures.

• Translating business and security requirements into secure, scalable technical designs.

• Defining architecture standards, engineering guidelines, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps.

• Assessing security risks, scalability requirements, and infrastructure dependencies.

• Leading architecture reviews, design validations, and technical design workshops.

• Reviewing implementation plans to ensure they align with approved designs and engineering standards.

• Supporting hardware refreshes, software upgrades, platform migrations, and security modernization initiatives.

• Developing and maintaining engineering standards, design templates, and operational requirements.

• Evaluating emerging security technologies and making recommendations for future adoption.

• Mentoring implementation and operations teams on security designs and best practices.

• Identifying opportunities for automation, process improvement, and operational efficiency.

• Supporting complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis as a senior technical resource.

What We’re Looking For

Fortinet & Perimeter Security

Strong hands-on experience with Fortinet security solutions, particularly:

• FortiGate

• FortiManager

• FortiAnalyzer

• Fortinet SD-WAN

• High Availability architectures

• Security Fabric

You should also have a strong understanding of:

• Enterprise perimeter security

• DMZ architectures

• Firewall policy design

• NAT and VPN technologies

• Network segmentation and micro-segmentation

• Zero Trust principles

• Load balancing technologies

Networking

Strong enterprise networking experience, including:

• TCP/IP

• BGP

• OSPF

• Routing and switching

• Arista / Arista CVP

• Cisco

Systems & Infrastructure

Experience with Windows, UNIX, or Linux server administration, along with significant exposure to internetworking technologies.

Design & Collaboration

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Translate complex business and security requirements into practical technical designs.

• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design workshops.

• Communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate across multiple technology teams and manage competing priorities.

• Approach complex technical problems with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

Check Point Experience

Experience with Check Point technologies is a plus, including:

• Security Gateways

• SmartConsole

• Management Servers

• ClusterXL

• VPN technologies

• NAT

• Policy design and optimization

Automation

Familiarity with Python and Ansible is a plus.

Industry Experience

Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated industry is a plus.

Certifications

Relevant certifications are valued, including:

Fortinet

• FCP

• FCSS

• FCX

• NSE 4–8

Check Point

• CCSA

• CCSE

• CCSM

VMware

• VCP6+-DCV

• VCP6+-CMA

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience working with network administration tools, software, operating systems, and hardware.

• 3–5 years of OS/server administration experience across Windows, UNIX, or Linux, with significant exposure to internetworking technologies.

• Strong hands-on experience with BGP, routing, and switching.

• Experience with Arista / Arista CVP and Cisco environments.

• VMware certification as noted above.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Ability to successfully pass required background checks.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to work on enterprise-scale perimeter security initiatives where your designs can directly influence security architecture, infrastructure modernization, and long-term engineering standards.

You’ll have meaningful technical ownership while working alongside teams across the organization to build secure, scalable, and resilient environments.

At the heart of the role is enterprise firewall design and Fortinet expertise, combined with strong networking and security architecture experience.