# Senior Network Consultant

Title: Senior Network Consultant (Fortinet) Reports to: Director of Presales Engineering Location: Remote United States of America Job Description: The Sterling Federal Network Consultant will serve as a hands-on individual contributor supporting Sterling’s federal customers with the assessment, design, deployment, optimization, and troubleshooting of secure network infrastructure, with a primary focus on Fortinet technologies. 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. The 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. We are looking for a highly capable network and security consultant with str

- **Id**: 2989896
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sterling-senior-network-consultant>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T19:53:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:21:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5735
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Government, Information Technology

## Company

- **Id**: 1927540
- **Name**: Sterling
- **Domain**: sterling.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sterling-com>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: ADP

## Technologies

- **FortiGate** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no
- **VPN** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-21T09:33:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 43
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.785
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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