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At Fortinet, our mission is to safeguard people, devices, and data everywhere. We are seeking an experienced network security engineer to build, operate, and scale our SASE architecture, encompassing both logical and physical infrastructure managed through Infrastructure as Code leveraging both Fortinet products and Linux (OpenStack) systems.\nYou'll work across network architecture, security operations, and automation-designing solutions, driving incident resolution, and implementing systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.\nThis role includes participation in a 24x7 NOC on-call rotation and requires some staffed weekend coverage.\nAs a Senior Network Security Engineer, you will:\nMaintain network architectures across datacenter environments (logical & physical)\nBuild and optimize network monitoring and observability systems\nDevelop automation to detect, mitigate, and remediate network events and solve problems\nPerform root cause analysis and drive issues to resolution\nMaintain documentation and operational consistency across the infrastructure\nContribute to technical discussions and long-range capacity planning\nProvide support to internal teams as a top-tier escalation point for all production issues\nWe Are Looking For:\nAn insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. 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