SASE Engineer

MUST KNOW

• SASE engineer who can understand complex networks and cloud services (this should cover mostly anything below)
• Involved with multiple Platforms such as (Netskope, Zscaler, Palo Alto, Fortinet). Any other is nice to have.
• SD-WAN fabrics overlay design, application-aware routing, QoS and traffic shaping, path selection policy, and SASE service insertion at the branch edge.
• Zero Trust Principle, least-privilege application segmentation, device posture assessment, and continuous verification
• Lead migration from legacy networks to cloud-delivered SASE Services.
• Good documentation skills, network diagrams, policy standards, and as-built records that other engineers can implement and audit against
• Evaluate SASE and SSE vendors and features against requirements; provide technical recommendations to architecture review and procurement.
• Cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, nice to have (or mandatory)
• Network routing protocols and VLANS.
• Identity integration for SAML/OIDC, SSO, SCIM, Entra ID or Okta, MDM/UEM, and EDR posture signals.
• Troubleshoot complex networks.
• Secure Web Gateway experience
• Experience with ITAR a plus.
• Understanding of SSL/TLS, including certificate distribution, PKI integration, bypass and exemption management, and pinned application handling.

DAY-TO-DAY

• Serve as tier-3 escalation for SASE, SD-WAN, and remote access incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Troubleshoot complex application, latency, and access failures across the full path endpoint, agent, tunnel, cloud PoP, policy engine, and destination using packet capture, digital experience monitoring, and log analytics.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for platform health, tunnel state, policy hit rates, capacity, and user experience; establish and report against SLOs.
• Manage policy lifecycle and change control: peer review, testing, staged deployment, documentation, and periodic rule and exception cleanup.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for critical network and security infrastructure.

ADDITIONALLY

• Partner with Security Operations, Identity, Endpoint, Cloud, and Application teams to align network policy with security requirements and application needs.
• Support audit and compliance activities by evidencing control implementation and maintaining accurate configuration and policy documentation.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers; build runbooks and lead knowledge transfer so operational load does not concentrate on individuals.
• Communicate technical trade-offs and risk clearly to both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders.

NICE TO HAVE

• Python or any automation skills.
• Cloud skills from multiple vendors
• Networking skills; CCNA/CCNP are welcome