Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Platform Engineer

REQUIRES AN EXISTING/ACTIVE TS/SCI WITH CI POLYGRAPH - NO REMOTE WORK MUST WORK ON SITE

Job Description:

You will directly shape our enterprise Zero Trust program influence architectural decisions and help safeguard mission-critical systems by deploying one of the most advanced segmentation platforms in the industry. This is a high-impact engineering role with visibility across security cloud and executive leadership.

We are seeking an experienced Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Platform Engineer to lead the design implementation and operational support of our enterprise micro-segmentation strategy. This role will own the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) across hybrid environments and play a critical part in our Zero Trust initiative partnering with security architects cloud engineers application teams and IT operations to reduce lateral movement risk and strengthen our overall security posture.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the design deployment configuration and optimization of Illumio Core and Illumio Edge across on-premises virtualized and cloud environments.

Architect and implement Zero Trust Segmentation policies including application dependency mapping labeling frameworks enforcement boundaries and zone-based controls.

Develop Illumio workflows runbooks dashboards and segmentation models for enterprise workloads and critical applications.

Integrate Illumio with SIEM/SOAR CMDB C2C vulnerability scanners cloud-native controls and enterprise automation pipelines.

Conduct traffic flow analysis using Illumio VEN telemetry and build policy recommendations to reduce attack surface and limit east-west movement.

Troubleshoot system performance VEN installation issues policy conflicts and platform health across distributed infrastructure.

Partner with application owners to onboard workloads validate segmentation plans and support change management processes.

Perform lifecycle management: upgrades health checks certificate operations and policy governance.

Collaborate with security architects to align Illumio policy models with broader Zero Trust and NIST 800-207 strategies.

Contribute to architectural standards documentation and enterprise security playbooks.

Basic Qualifications:

5 years in cybersecurity cloud security or infrastructure engineering.

3 years of expertise in Linux/Windows systems virtualization (VMware Hyper-V) and cloud environments (AWS Azure or GCP).

2 years of experience with network security (firewalls routing segmentation models TCP/IP).

2 years of experience developing and deploying solutions for highly regulated mission-critical environments (finance healthcare federal or energy).

1 year experience with infrastructure automation tools (Ansible Terraform or similar).

1 year experience with REST APIs scripting (Python Bash PowerShell) or automation frameworks.

Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam

Associates degree and 5 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities Bachelors degree and 3 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities or Masters degree and 1 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities. Years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

Active DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level II Certification including Security CE CCNA-Security GSEC SSCP CySA GICSP or CND

Ability to obtain a DoD 8570.01-M Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification including CEH CySA GICSP SSCP CHFI CFR Cloud or CND certification within 30 days of start date

Additional Qualifications

Prior Hands-on experience deploying and managing Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) in enterprise environments.

Illumio certifications (e.g. Illumio ASP Professional or Expert).

Experience with CMDB systems (ServiceNow) SIEM/SOAR tools or vulnerability management platforms.

Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles micro-segmentation and lateral movement mitigation

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate policies into technical controls.

Required Experience:

IC