Senior Azure Consultant – Firewall, Architecture, Governance

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  • Job type

    Contract
  • Location

    Bristol
  • Working Pattern

    Full-time
  • Specialism

    Cloud
  • Industry

    Technology & Internet Services
  • Pay

    Up to £620 per day – Inside IR35

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 knowledge transfer.

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