Platform Security Engineer 2

About the role

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world? Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better.

Independently implement and maintain vDefend distributed firewall policies and NSX micro-segmentation rules for moderate-complexity environments. Administer Identity Broker integrations, federation trusts, and access policy mappings across platform services. Enforce platform security baselines and hardening standards for VCF management and workload domains. Conduct recurring security configuration reviews and partner with engineering teams on remediation planning. Assist in developing reusable policy standards, segmentation templates, and security implementation patterns. Support integration of platform security controls with VCF tools such as Aria Operations, Automation, and logging/monitoring workflows. Contribute to compliance guardrails by mapping platform configurations to CIS, NIST, and internal control requirements. Participate in root cause analysis for security incidents and recurring control failures. Provide operational guidance to Platform Security Engineer I staff and peer teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain vDefend distributed firewall policies and NSX micro-segmentation rules
• Administer Identity Broker integrations, federation trusts, and access policy mappings
• Enforce platform security baselines and hardening standards for VCF management and workload domains
• Conduct recurring security configuration reviews and partner with engineering teams on remediation planning
• Assist in developing reusable policy standards, segmentation templates, and security implementation patterns
• Support integration of platform security controls with VCF tools
• Contribute to compliance guardrails by mapping platform configurations to CIS, NIST, and internal control requirements
• Participate in root cause analysis for security incidents and recurring control failures
• Provide operational guidance to Platform Security Engineer I staff and peer teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in infrastructure security, systems security, network security, or virtualization engineering
• Experience with firewall rule administration, segmentation, and IAM in enterprise environments
• Working knowledge of VMware vSphere and experience with at least one of the following: NSX, vDefend, SSO/federation, or policy enforcement platforms
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as CIS and NIST
• Experience with scripting, automation, or configuration validation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with VMware NSX and/or vDefend in production
• Exposure to Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud security concepts such as shared responsibility, cloud IAM, and security baselines
• Familiarity with VCF lifecycle, SDDC Manager, Aria Operations, Aria Automation, or related platform tooling
• Experience with policy-as-code or configuration-as-code tools such as OPA, Sentinel, Terraform, or Ansible
• Security+, VMware VCP, SC-900, AZ-500, or equivalent certifications

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.

• Folsom, CA; Denver, CO; Englewood, CO: $79,541 – $113,630
• Minneapolis, MN; St. Paul, MN: $75,926 – $108,465
• Pennington, NJ: $83,157 – $118,795
• Woodcliff Lake, NJ: $90,388 – $129,125
• Olympia, WA: $72,310 – $103,300

Schedule

This on-site role supports 24/7 operations through real-time collaboration, standard shifts occur within a 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM window, Monday through Friday. Additionally, this position requires scheduled on-call flexibility and the ability to remain reasonably reachable during off-hours for critical business continuity.