Principal Security Engineer | Zscaler SME

This would be 5 days onsite per week with the team in Arlington, VA. US Citizenship is required as there will be a Federal Entry of Duty BI process.

Work You'll Do

• Support a major customer in ongoing operations, support, and engineering with regards to the full Zscaler product suite (ZIA, ZPA, ZDX, ZCC) and related technologies.
• Configure and tune the system to optimize performance and/or alerting.
• Integrate solutions with third party technology solutions through the API.
• Design and engineer network data flow to implement and improve new connections; or troubleshooting existing communications.
• Produce documentation such as data flows, data dictionaries, user guides, or operating procedures, user guides, operating procedures, systems design document, disaster recovery documentation, etc.
• Interface with company executives as well as government technical management or executive level personnel.
• Support communications within major cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Periodic review and improvement of disaster recovery needs.
• Deploy and manage virtual servers in the cloud.
• Deploy and manage private service edges.
• Tuning of data protection standards.
• Provide guidance on all aspects of Zscaler network and security capabilities for the customer.
• Support of additional third-party network and security products as needed.
• Support of cloud service providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) as needed.
• Provides internal consulting, technical guidance, information and support to application developers, computer operations, company management and departmental clients. Assists in internal training programs.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What You Have

• US Citizenship is Required, Ability to pass a DHS clearance
• Strong understanding of security threats, tactics, procedures, and remediation.
• Very strong working knowledge of the full Zscaler product suite (ZIA, ZPA, ZDX, ZCC) and related technologies.
• Well-rounded understanding of a variety of IT (Information Technology) products and protocols to integrate disparate solutions, such as routing and switching, software development, Linux, Windows, and/or cloud computing.
• Previous experience implementing security controls in cloud environments.
• Strong network engineering skills and experiencing including:
  • SD-WAN
  • Ports and Protocols
  • Routing
  • Firewalling
  • Policy Based Routing
• Minimum Requirements:
  • At least 10 years of hands-on experience with a combination of: Network Design, Network Engineering, Network Operational Support, cloud engineering, Zscaler, Security Engineering, Security Analysis.
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience with all of the following:
    • Zscaler Private Access (ZPA)
    • Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA)
    • Zscaler Digital User Experience
    • Zscaler Client Connector
  • Experience deploying and managing virtual servers in the Cloud
  • Experience deploying and managing elastic IPs and elastic network interfaces in the Cloud
  • Experience deploying and managing Cloud based load balancers
  • Experience with implementing audit trails
  • Experience with Cloud based monitoring solutions
  • US Citizenship required, and candidates must be willing to be submitted for a US Government background investigation
  • No third-party candidates will be considered

What We Offer

• 401(k), including an employer match of 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (available on the 1st day of the month following your first day of employment)
• Group Term Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Life, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and/or Critical Illness
• Participation in the Discretionary Time Off (DTO) Program
• 11 Paid Holidays Annually