Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Zero Trust
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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer working on Zero Trust Architecture and enterprise security platforms for federal objectives. Collaborating across teams to enhance cybersecurity posture and implement advanced solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Support the design, implementation, integration, sustainment, and optimization of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), and enterprise security platforms supporting federal cybersecurity objectives.
- Provide senior-level engineering expertise across Palo Alto technologies, network security architecture, secure remote access, segmentation, policy enforcement, and enterprise security modernization initiatives.
- Research, evaluate, engineer, and operationalize advanced cybersecurity solutions incorporating Zero Trust, SIEM, SOAR, PAM, ICAM, UEBA, automation, and analytics technologies.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation including SOPs, engineering standards, architectural diagrams, platform hardening guides, troubleshooting procedures, and operational workflows.
- Support security platform lifecycle management including implementation, upgrades, patching, hardening, troubleshooting, and sustainment across security infrastructure.
- Collaborate with SOC, Security Engineering, IAM/ICAM, endpoint, and infrastructure teams to improve enterprise security posture through integrated controls, automation, and process standardization.
- Support privileged account, service account, API credential, and security integration governance across Zero Trust and enterprise security ecosystems.
- Provide secondary operational support for SOAR/security automation platforms by assisting with troubleshooting, workflow validation, integrations, and continuity support when primary automation personnel are unavailable.
- Assist with incident response readiness by validating security workflows, supporting automation-enabled response processes, and improving operational resilience.
- Providing expert knowledge for the development of Zero Trust architecture designs to optimize mission effectiveness and efficiency.
- May serve as a task or project leader (not a people manager)
Requirements:
- 7+ years of related experience
- Must have hands-on experience with Palo Alto or comparable enterprise security technologies including NGFWs, SASE, secure access, segmentation, or related network security platforms.
- Must possess experience integrating cybersecurity platforms across security operations, IAM/ICAM, PAM, endpoint, SIEM, or enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Must demonstrate strong experience developing and maintaining technical documentation including SOPs, engineering standards, troubleshooting guides, workflow diagrams, and security operational procedures.
- Must have experience supporting platform lifecycle activities such as implementation, upgrades, patching, hardening, vulnerability remediation, and operational sustainment.
- Must possess working knowledge of SOAR/security automation platforms (e.g., Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, ServiceNow, or equivalent), including the ability to support integrations, troubleshoot workflows, and provide backup operational support.
- Familiarity with playbook logic, automation workflows, and incident response orchestration is strongly preferred.
- Must have experience supporting privileged account governance, service account management, API credential security, or PAM technologies such as CyberArk or equivalent.
- Must possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills supporting enterprise cybersecurity operations.
- Experience supporting federal cybersecurity frameworks, Zero Trust maturity initiatives, or government security environments is strongly preferred.
- Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, Palo Alto, Security+, cloud security, Zero Trust, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent STEM field and 10+ years’ experience related to systems engineering, implementation, and monitoring.
- Allowable Substitution for bachelor’s degree is 7 years of relevant experience
- Must be able to obtain and maintain an active Public Trust 6C clearance
Benefits:
- Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Family Leave program provides up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
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