A Fortune 50 financial services company is seeking a highly motivated Cyber Security Engineer to join their team in the McLean, Virginia area.
Responsibilities:
- Translate Zero Trust requirements into detailed firewall rule requests
- Submit requests including:
- Source identities (users, groups, roles)
- Destination applications/services
- Ports, protocols, and application IDs
- Ensure all requests meet firewall engineering standards and technical requirements
- Act as the primary liaison between Zero Trust, IAM, firewall engineering, and application teams
- Track firewall requests from submission through completion
- Resolve implementation questions and discrepancies with engineering teams
- Validate that implemented rules align with approved Zero Trust policies
- Perform testing to confirm:
- Authorized access works
- Unauthorized access is blocked
- Identify and remediate misconfigurations, gaps, or policy drift
- Ensure all rules are documented, tagged, and auditable
- Maintain records for compliance, reporting, and governance
- Support ongoing refinement of Zero Trust policies and access controls
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Network Security, Firewall Engineering, Zero Trust, or related Security roles within enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with Enterprise Firewalls (Palo Alto preferred)
- Strong understanding of User-based and Application-aware Firewall policies
- Experience in submitting and managing firewall rule requests in enterprise environments
- Ability to validate implementations and troubleshoot access issues
- Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate across multiple technical teams
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Familiarity with IAM (Entra ID, AD groups, RBAC models)
- Experience integrating firewall rules with application onboarding frameworks
- Knowledge of Audit, Compliance, and Security Reporting
