Zero Trust Engineer

About the role

The Opportunity: As a Zero Trust Engineer on our project, you’ll coordinate with a dynamic team of thought leaders and experts to identify the right mix of tools and techniques to translate your customer’s IT security needs and future goals into a plan that will enable secure and effective solutions. We need to come up with the best solution, so you’ll investigate new techniques, break free from the legacy model, and go where the industry is going. You’ll lead the team through a critical approach to security architecture design, providing alternatives and customizing solutions to maintain a balance of security and mission needs. Your technical expertise will be vital as you help customers overcome their most difficult challenges by integrating cybersecurity technologies and solutions, including IoT, OT, and Cloud security, Automation and Orchestration (A&O), identity and access management, conditional-based access, attribute-based access control, and micro-segmentation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with a dynamic team of thought leaders and experts to identify the right mix of tools and techniques to translate your customer’s IT security needs and future goals into a plan that will enable secure and effective solutions.
• Investigate new techniques, break free from the legacy model, and go where the industry is going.
• Lead the team through a critical approach to security architecture design, providing alternatives and customizing solutions to maintain a balance of security and mission needs.
• Help customers overcome their most difficult challenges by integrating cybersecurity technologies and solutions, including IoT, OT, and Cloud security, Automation and Orchestration (A&O), identity and access management, conditional-based access, attribute-based access control, and micro-segmentation.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience with IT operations or cybersecurity
• 2+ years of experience with technical project delivery for large, complex organizations
• Knowledge of Zero Trust solutions, roadmaps, and capabilities in alignment with industry standards, including NIST 800-207, and DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture
• Knowledge of networking, ICAM, SASE, ZTNA, CASB, and Cloud
• Ability to work with senior leaders, including CISO, CIO, and CTO, and executives to ideate, build, and execute cybersecurity capability maturation
• Ability to collaborate with project and proposal teams to incorporate and develop high-quality implementation plans and roadmaps
• Secret clearance

Qualifications

• HS diploma or GED
• Nice If You Have: Experience with product selection initiatives, including A&O, AI, analytics, secure DevOps, identify and access management, or network access control
• Experience with innovative cybersecurity capabilities, including A&O, AI and machine learning, NGFW, and Big Data
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor's degree
• Information Security Certification such as CEH, CISM, CCSP, CCSK, CISSP, or CompTIA Security+

Skills

• Experience with product selection initiatives, including A&O, AI, analytics, secure DevOps, identify and access management, or network access control
• Experience with innovative cybersecurity capabilities, including A&O, AI and machine learning, NGFW, and Big Data
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.