Fortinet is seeking a Cloud Architect supporting Public Cloud with a focus on AWS. As a part of the Public Cloud team, this role will support the technical alliance relationship with AWS to develop additional feature integration, novel use cases, and overall improved value of Fortinet on AWS. The position will also support customer engagements and evangelism of Fortinet’s cloud-enabled portfolio. The position will work closely with Product Management and Development, Field Sales teams, and customers to deliver lightweight service enhancements leveraging core Public Cloud capabilities. Public Clouds services include IaaS, SaaS. Candidates should have in-depth understanding of cloud security services, such as SCA, DAST, CWP, CSPP, CASB and other SaaS solutions. This role is a hands-on engineering and architecture position that requires development and/or DevOps abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Create organizational workflow enhancements to deliver public cloud-sourced services, such hands-on labs, customer POCs, tool integration, data enrichment and other uses
- Provide technical guidance on Public Cloud matters to internal stakeholders
- Develop simple to complex scripts leveraging Cloud Service Provider (CSP) capabilities
- Document and maintain script and application libraries or repositories
- Provide technical guidance on Public Cloud integration and development, ex. the use of CSP APIs and how they can be leveraged
- Translate business requirements to programmatic logic
- Conduct proof of concepts
- Support Professional Services activities
- Develop customer-facing documentation
- Lead training activities for internal and external partners and customers
- Create reference designs and code that applies CSP best practices
- Advise Product and field Engineering on solution options, feature requirements, and reference designs.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of development and/or scripting experience with a major language.
- Strong capabilities in one or more of Python, Node.js, C#, C++, C, Ruby, Perl
- Understanding of database services such as DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as git, jenkins
- Ability to use data structures such as yaml, XML, JSON
- Cloud development experience highly desired with 2-3 using any of AWS, Azure, Oracle OCI, or Google GCP, Alibaba Cloud
- Familiarity with orchestration tools (ex. Terraform, Ansible, Chef, puppet, Lambda)
- 2 -3 years of experience in the design and implementation of Public Cloud services
- 5+ years of experience using cloud tools (ex. Git, AWS Dev tools)
- Experience in network security highly desired, including VPN, Proxies, Authentication, etc.
- Technical writing and network documentation skills highly desired
- Kubernetes and Docker experience highly desired
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in CompSci or similar and/or equivalent experience required
- Master’s preferred
Fortinet offers employees a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k), 11 paid holidays, vacation time, and sick time as well as a comprehensive leave program.
Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $228,100 - $253,400 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
All roles are eligible to participate in the Fortinet equity program, and this position is also eligible for commissions based on the terms of the Sales Compensation Plan
About UsSkills Required
- 5+ years of development and/or scripting experience with a major language
- Strong capabilities in one or more of Python, Node.js, C#, C++, C, Ruby, Perl
- In-depth understanding of cloud security services (SCA, DAST, CWP, CSPP, CASB, SaaS solutions)
- Understanding of database services such as DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as git and Jenkins
- Ability to use data structures such as YAML, XML, JSON
- 2-3 years of experience designing and implementing Public Cloud services
- 5+ years experience using cloud tools (e.g., Git, AWS Dev Tools)
- Familiarity with orchestration/infra-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Lambda)
- Experience with AWS (public cloud focus)
- Experience in network security (VPN, proxies, authentication)
- Technical writing and network documentation skills
- Kubernetes and Docker experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Master's degree
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