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# Senior Fortinet Network Engineer

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Computer Networks, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), IP Routing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Troubleshooting, Network Architecture, Network Installation Services, Routing, Peering, Load Balancing, Connectivity Problems, HybridCloud, Firewalls (Computer Science), Fortinet, Terraform, Api Management
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.kforce.com/find-work/search-jobs/#/detail/MTY5Nn5FUUd-MjE4Njc0MFQxfjk5/

## About the Role

* 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 plus

Must 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 testing

## Description

Kforce'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 environments


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