Senior Zero Trust Network Lead

Lead Zero Trust strategy and hands-on network security engineering across identity, devices, network, cloud, and security platforms. Define technical standards, integration requirements, and roadmap priorities; coordinate cross-functional design and implementation; and ensure capabilities are tested, documented, operationally ready, and transitioned to production. Provide network, firewall, wireless, and access-control engineering support in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Define Zero Trust technical strategy, policy intent, standards, control objectives, architecture requirements, and roadmap priorities.
• Engineer, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and optimize Cisco routing, switching, and LAN/WAN services.
• Define and implement Zero Trust integrations for Palo Alto firewalls, Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Aruba wireless, and Clear
• Pass NAC.
• Coordinate Zero Trust requirements and dependencies across network, cloud, identity, endpoint, service desk, security operations, and engineering teams.
• Lead architecture reviews, identify risks and gaps, and ensure solutions are tested, documented, operationally ready, and transitioned into production.
• Coordinate technical response to access-control incidents and ensure network and Zero Trust changes follow Service
• Now ERB/CCB processes.

Required Skills

• Zero Trust architecture
• Network engineering
• Cisco routing and switching
• LAN/WAN services
• Palo Alto firewall engineering
• Zscaler ZIA/ZPAAruba wireless
• Clear
• Pass NACIdentity-aware access control
• Network segmentation