Pillar Lead: Network Engineer (R-00209)
Summary
Leads Zero Trust network architecture for a government-focused cybersecurity effort, designing patterns for segmentation, policy enforcement, and secure connectivity across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
True Zero is seeking a Network Engineer to lead the Networks and Environment pillar for the VA Zero Trust acceleration effort. The role develops and validates network-focused Zero Trust architecture patterns, including segmentation, policy enforcement, secure connectivity, telemetry, and integration with identity and device context.
The Network Engineer supports enterprise use cases and system-specific implementations across diverse on-premises, cloud, hybrid, legacy, and mission-critical environments.
Position Responsibilities
- Develop reusable network and environment architecture patterns for Zero Trust use cases.
- Assess segmentation, microsegmentation, routing, secure access, policy enforcement, and telemetry requirements for system implementations.
- Identify network dependencies and interoperability requirements across identity, device, application, data, and analytics capabilities.
- Support engineering plans, pilot designs, test cases, implementation validation, and rollback planning.
- Evaluate network security technologies in a vendor-neutral manner for architectural fit and operational effectiveness.
- Document deviations, implementation lessons, and recommendations for continuous improvement of network Zero Trust patterns.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Five or more years of enterprise network engineering or network security experience.
- Strong knowledge of segmentation, firewalls, routing, secure access, cloud networking, and network telemetry.
- Working knowledge of Zero Trust and policy enforcement concepts.
- Experience designing and troubleshooting complex hybrid enterprise networks.
- Experience with software-defined networking, microsegmentation, SASE, ZTNA, or cloud-native networking.
- Experience supporting Federal or large regulated environments.
- Experience producing architecture diagrams and implementation test plans.
- CCNP Security
- CCNP Enterprise
- CISSP
- Security+
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