Technical Design Authority– Secure Networks

Role
-Technical Design Authority– Secure Networks

Location
-Home based with travel to customer sites / team meetings when required

Salary
-Negotiable

We’re expanding to deliver a wave of customer network transformations. The TDA is our post-sales technical lead and trusted advisor, responsible for shaping and delivering robust designs, guiding customers through SD-WAN and SASE adoption, and ensuring implementations land cleanly into service.

You’ll be hands‑on enough to own Low Level Design and Migration Runbooks and cut‑through on complex problems, yet customer centric enough to build confidence, challenge constructively, and become ‘first call’ for strategic technical decisions.

• Track record delivering multi-site SD-WAN / SASE transformations as the lead designer / authority.
• Evidenced ‘trusted advisor’ relationships with enterprise or public‑sector customers.
• Hands‑on with Fortinet SD-WAN / SASE / ZTNA in production, including policy design and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable guiding engineers and challenging scope / assumptions to keep delivery on track.

• Own solution design :
  Produce high‑quality High‑Level and Low‑Level Designs for SDWAN, Secure SD‑Branch and SASE, integrating NGFW, ZTNA, and Cloud‑connect, aligned to customer outcomes and delivery constraints.
• Lead delivery technically :
  Act as Design Authority across project phases, providing technical governance, standards, and ‘go / no‑go’ on design changes; assure quality of build, test and service transition artefacts.
• Be the trusted advisor :
  Run customer workshops, translate business drivers into technical decisions, challenge assumptions, and guide stakeholders through risk / benefit trade‑offs for transformation programmes.
• Close the loop with pre‑sales :
  Review RFPs / RFIs and proposed architectures, contributing design options, scope assumptions, and delivery estimates that can be sold and delivered on time and within budget.
• Harden security posture :
  Define and validate SASE / Zero‑Trust policies, ZTNA access models, identity‑aware segmentation, and secure site templates; align with Nasstar security frameworks and customer policies.
• Operational handover :
  Ensure designs are operable : documentation, config standards, test plans, knowledge transfer and run‑books to transition smoothly into support.
• Continuous improvement :
  Capture lessons learned, contribute to design standards, templates and automation; mentor engineers and influence productised delivery patterns for SD-WAN / SASE.

• Fortinet SD-WAN & SASE :
  Forti Gate (physical / VM), Forti Manager / Forti Analyzer, SD-WAN overlays, performance-based routing, segmentation; SASE policy definition; ZTNA (client and gateway).
• Routing & overlays : BGP, OSPF, IPsec, GRE; dual-underlay / dual-hub; DIA / MPLS migrations.
• Firewalling & security : NGFW policies, IDS / IPS, SSL inspection, cert chains and device PKI hygiene;
  Zero-Trust principles and identity-aware access.
• LAN / WAN & Wi-Fi :
  Campus / branch designs, SD-Branch, switching / wireless patterns and site standards.
• Cloud & edge :
  Private DC, interconnect, cloud on-ramps; design guardrails for resilience and failover.

• Customer-centric communicator who can translate business constraints into clear technical decisions and articulate risk / impact in plain English.
• Pragmatic, delivery-minded : balances ‘strategic ideal’ vs. ‘tactical path’ to meet timelines and budgets.
• Comfortable chairing design workshops and Design Authority forums, documenting outcomes and holding teams to standards

• Operational Technology (OT) Security :
  Exposure to OT network segmentation, asset zoning (ISA / IEC 62443 concepts), secure remote access for plant or retail edge, and constrained-environment change practices.
• Broader vendor familiarity (Cisco / Meraki / Juniper) to read / critique designs and handle heterogeneous estates.

• Fortinet NSE 4–7 (or progress toward).
• Cisco / Juniper routing certs helpful (CCNP, JNCIS / JNCIP).
• Security certs a plus (e.g. CISSP, GIAC) and any exposure to…