Senior Azure Consultant - Firewall, Architecture, Governance

Senior Azure Consultant - Firewall, Architecture, Governance

Up to £620 per day - Inside IR35

Hybrid

3 months

My client is an instantly recognizable consultancy who require a Senior Azure Consultant to lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the migration of existing FortiGate virtual firewalls to Azure Firewall across multiple global Azure regions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end solution definition, inventory FortiGate policies, NAT, routing, traffic flows, and dependencies; run workshops and secure design sign-off.
• Define Azure Firewall design in Azure Virtual WAN (regional hub/spoke), including cross-region inspection, segmentation (north-south/east-west), and integration patterns.
• Establish global base and regional child firewall policies, including governance, rule lifecycle, recertification, and compliance alignment.
• Translate and rationalise FortiGate rules into Azure Firewall Policy, address feature gaps with compensating controls, and deliver reusable Terraform modules with Git-based change control.
• Own UDR/BGP/vWAN routing, ExpressRoute considerations, public IP/SNAT capacity planning, SKU sizing, and integrations (Zscaler, Front Door, App Gateway).
• Define migration strategy/runbooks, manage cutover/rollback and validation, implement logging/SOC integration (Sentinel), lead hypercare, and handover to BAU with documentation and knowledg...]]>