Fortinet Engineer

Patrick Industries, a publicly traded company headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, invites you to join a team of dedicated Team Members who are passionate about delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer service. As a leading solutions provider serving a diverse range of markets across the United States, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability has positioned us as a high growth, diversified and empowered Team of more than 10,000! Your adventure awaits!

We are seeking a Fortinet Engineer to join our Corporate IT team in Elkhart, IN. The Fortinet Engineer will hold a key position within the organization by helping keep the network up-to-date and operating as intended. In this role, you will maintain and improve the company’s hardware, network, and other computing equipment with an emphasis on always ensuring the reliability and security of the network environment. 

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Maintains and creates technical documents and knowledge for base information; documenting actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records
• Perform onsite visits to perform deployments, enhancements, and maintenance
• Research, plan, install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade network hardware and wiring
• Upgrades information systems by conferring with vendors and services; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements and new hardware/software
• Monitoring the network environment’s performance and undertake maintenance and upgrades as required.
• Works with business units to select, implement, and maintain network environment is relevant to the operations of the company
• Protects organization's value by ensuring information remains confidential
• Work effectively and independently on multiple complex activities and projects
• Ensure any network outages are handled with priority to maintain uptime and production for all locations
• Work with the network team resolving everyday tickets
• Provide assessment and planning when conducting network cutovers and installation of new hardware

Qualifications and Skills:

• 7+ years of experience with supporting networks, industry certifications are a plus
• Previous experience in Fortinet
• Experience with multi-site networks
• Prior Data Center experience required
• Experience managing a large/enterprise network (1000+ AP’s, 500 Switches, 200 Routers)
• TCP/IP Network Design
• Wireless Network Design
• Experience with Network security, 802x, NAC, ACL Building highly desired
• Candidates must have the ability to work in different environments including office and manufacturing facilities that may be hot and dust filled
• Ability to communicate with all levels of an organization
• Self-starter
• Align with Patrick Industries “BETTER Together” mentality by pursuing Balance, Excellence, Trust, Teamwork, Empowerment, and Respect within the organization

At Patrick Industries, BETTER Together is our commitment to being our best while striving to bring out the best in one another as we join forces Individually, as Teams, with our Business Units, with our Customers, our Communities and within our entire Patrick family.

Patrick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.