Network Design Engineer – Fortinet

Company: Hays
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

As a senior Network Solution Designer, you will lead the design of secure, scalable enterprise networks with a strong focus on Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. You’ll translate business requirements into resilient architectures and own designs through the full lifecycle, collaborating with customers, architects, security specialists and delivery teams. You will lead workshops, reviews and governance, and support bids and pre-sales efforts. This role offers hands-on design leadership in a customer-facing, strategic environment and opportunities to shape standards and reusable patterns.

Pay / Benefits

  • 10% target bonus
  • 25 days’ holiday
  • strong pension
  • flexible benefits package

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end enterprise network solutions with emphasis on Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
  • Create designs across WAN, LAN, routing, switching, security and resilience
  • Manage designs from requirements through implementation and handover
  • Lead customer workshops and technical design reviews
  • Support bids, proposals and pre-sales activity
  • Act as trusted technical advisor to customers and senior stakeholders
  • Provide technical governance and review complex network designs
  • Help develop design standards, frameworks and reusable patterns
  • Mentor colleagues and share expertise across the team

Key requirements

  • Strong enterprise network design experience
  • Fortinet Secure SD-WAN expertise
  • Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions
  • Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management skills
  • Experience leading design reviews and providing governance
  • Confidence presenting technical solutions and running workshops
  • customer-facing communication
  • stakeholder management
  • mentoring
  • Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
  • WAN, LAN, routing, switching, security and resilience
  • technical governance

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Posted: November 6th, 2026