Cloud Security Engineer Manager

About the role

We are seeking a talented, passionate cyber security specialist who will serve as a technical interface and subject matter expert in designing, implementing, and supporting an enterprise-class application-centric micro-segmentation service for Deloitte US Member Firm.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, implementation, and sustainment of zero trust architectures to safeguard critical assets and data against emerging cyber threats.
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for application micro-segmentation and zero-trust principles, methodologies, and technologies.
• Collaborate with Network and Firewall Teams, Application Teams, Server Teams, Cloud Engineering Teams etc. to design, implement, and support an enterprise-class application-centric micro-segmentation solution and service.
• Lead implementation of micro-segmentation to safeguard critical applications as part of a multi-year program.
• Identify new service requirements in support of our Zero Trust strategy.
• Lead and support troubleshooting for micro-segmentation service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• Minimum 6 years of related Cyber Security experience with a focus on network security engineering, including firewall policy design, rule management, and hands-on experience securing east-west traffic in enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in Python development for automation and scripting, including experience building security tooling, policy automation, or infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Networking fundamentals with demonstrated experience across both cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-premises data center infrastructure, including VLANs, subnetting, routing protocols, firewall policy, and east-west traffic segmentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with micro-segmentation platforms (e.g., Illumio, Guardicore, Cisco Secure Workload) and practical application of Zero Trust principles such as least-privilege access, identity-aware policy enforcement, and network segmentation strategy.
• Experience deploying, managing, and tuning micro-segmentation security policies.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP and/or AWS.
• Understanding of application tiering architecture (web, application, database), communication patterns and application connectivity.
• Experience with Windows server/Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of the Zero Trust Framework or NIST 800-207 (Zero Trust Architecture).
• Experience working with all levels of management, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and containers.
• Experience designing and managing firewalls or other network segmentation tools.
• Experience setting up, configuring, policy creation, and troubleshooting firewalls such as Palo Alto, Cisco, Windows Packet Filtering, and IP Tables.
• Experience with one of the scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python and BASH).
• System forensics and investigation skills, including analyzing system artifacts (e.g. file system, memory, running processes, network connections, logs).
• CISSP, GIAC, CCNA or other related Information Security certifications.