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This role will work directly with customers, sales teams, vendor partners, and Sterling engineers to deliver practical, mission-aligned network and security solutions for Federal Civilian, Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and other public sector environments.\nThe consultant will translate complex technical requirements into scalable Fortinet-based architectures, implementation plans, and operational recommendations. This individual will support customer engagements across the full lifecycle, including discovery, solution validation, configuration, migration planning, deployment support, documentation, knowledge transfer, and post-implementation optimization.\nWe are looking for a highly capable network and security consultant with strong federal experience, deep Fortinet product expertise, and the ability to operate independently in complex environments while representing Sterling with professionalism, technical credibility, and customer-first execution.\nJob Experience Requirements: Must have Federal Civilian, DoD, IC, or public sector experience. The ideal candidate will possess deep, hands-on experience with Fortinet solutions, including FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiClient/EMS, FortiAuthenticator, FortiNAC, FortiWeb, secure SD-WAN, VPN, segmentation, high availability, logging, monitoring, and enterprise/federal security architecture. 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Experience with adjacent infrastructure and security vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, Dell, HPE/Aruba, VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat is also valuable.\nFederal Customer Consulting & Delivery\nLead technical discovery sessions with federal customers to understand mission requirements, existing network architecture, security posture, operational constraints, and modernization objectives.\nDevelop Fortinet-based network and security designs that align with customer requirements, federal operating environments, and Sterling delivery standards.\nConfigure, deploy, validate, and optimize Fortinet solutions across firewall, switching, wireless, VPN, SD-WAN, segmentation, authentication, logging, and centralized management use cases.\nTroubleshoot complex network and security issues across routing, switching, firewall policy, VPN, high availability, SD-WAN, and Fortinet Security Fabric integrations.\nProduce clear technical documentation, including implementation plans, configuration guides, migration plans, diagrams, as-built documentation, and customer knowledge-transfer materials.\nTechnical Advisory & Presales Support\nPartner with Sterling sales and engineering teams to shape Fortinet-focused solutions for federal customers.\nSupport solution validation, whiteboarding, demonstrations, proof-of-concept planning, and technical responses for customer opportunities.\nExplain complex Fortinet networking and security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear, practical manner.\nAdvise customers on network modernization, Zero Trust network access, secure SD-WAN, segmentation, cloud connectivity, and security operations considerations.\nCollaborate with Fortinet and other vendor partners to validate architectures, resolve technical issues, and align recommendations to product capabilities and customer outcomes.\nCore Technical Skillset Requirements\nFortinet Network Security: deep hands-on experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiClient/EMS, FortiAuthenticator, FortiNAC, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, and related Fortinet Security Fabric capabilities.\nFirewall & Policy Architecture: ability to design, implement, migrate, and troubleshoot next-generation firewall policies, NAT, UTM profiles, IPS, application control, SSL inspection, routing, and high availability.\nSecure SD-WAN & VPN: experience designing and supporting Fortinet secure SD-WAN, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, remote access, multi-site connectivity, and resilient WAN architectures.\nRouting, Switching & Wireless: strong understanding of routing protocols, switching, VLANs, segmentation, wireless architectures, NAC, QoS, and network troubleshooting in enterprise and federal environments.\n Consulting Delivery: proven ability to lead technical workshops, create implementation plans, perform migrations, conduct knowledge transfer, and communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders.\nSterling Computers Corporation (“Sterling”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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