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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Technical Lead Network Security

Network Engineering & AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBrisbane QLD, AustraliaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong production experience in enterprise network security environments.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Fortinet and FortiGate.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks.
  • Experience with FortiManager and/or Panorama.
  • Strong understanding of routing and switching, BGP and OSPF, NAT, VPN and IPsec, high availability and failover, SD-WAN, firewall policy, and traffic flow.
  • Strong troubleshooting capability across complex network and security incidents.
  • Experience working with large, live production environments.
  • Experience leading or playing a key technical role during major incidents.
  • Ability to troubleshoot issues end-to-end rather than focusing only on the firewall.
  • Experience working across managed services, consulting, enterprise, or multi-customer environments.
  • Strong change management and production support discipline.
  • Ability to assess an unfamiliar environment and identify technical risks and improvement opportunities.
  • Experience communicating technical recommendations clearly to customers and stakeholders.
  • Confidence mentoring and supporting other engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a senior technical escalation point across complex network security environments.
  • Provide advanced support and troubleshooting across Fortinet and Palo Alto platforms.
  • Investigate and resolve complex issues involving firewall policy, NAT, VPN and IPsec, routing, high availability and failover, SD-WAN, connectivity, and traffic flow.
  • Lead or support major P1/P2 incidents, including technical coordination, restoration, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvement.
  • Manage and troubleshoot centrally managed environments using tools such as FortiManager and Panorama.
  • Review existing customer environments and identify technical risks, gaps, and areas for improvement.
  • Develop practical recommendations and improvement plans for customers.
  • Contribute to network security architecture, design, and implementation activities.
  • Perform advanced configuration, upgrades, patching, and optimization across production environments.
  • Support customer change processes and ensure changes are well planned, tested, and documented.
  • Troubleshoot across the wider network stack, including routing, switching, and application connectivity.
  • Work with technologies such as BGP, OSPF, VPNs, load balancing, and enterprise networking.
  • Contribute to automation and operational improvement using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or scripting where appropriate.
  • Mentor and support engineers, helping build troubleshooting capability and technical confidence across the team.
  • Build strong customer relationships and act as a trusted technical advisor.
  • Help move services from reactive support towards proactive improvement and engineering.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with load balancing technologies such as F5.
  • Exposure to automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, or similar.
  • Exposure to cloud networking across Azure and/or AWS.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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