Federal Security Platforms Lead (Principal Information Security Engineer)

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Here impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We believe in transparency and value constructive honest debatewere focused on getting to the best ideas faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession collaboration ownership and accountability.

We value high-impact high-accountability with a sense of urgency where youre enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If youre driven by purpose thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

We are looking for a Federal Security Platforms Lead (Principal Information Security Engineer) to join our Enterprise Security team. This is a full-time onsite role based in Crystal City VA reporting to the Director of Federal Security Operations.
You will build and own the security detection and response platform for a new dedicated DoD/DoW IL6 cloud this role you will architect Splunk Enterprise Security from the ground up establish critical data pipelines and deliver high-fidelity automation to enable real-time threat response. Partnering across Zscaler you will ensure our 24/7 federal security operations remain scalable compliant and mission-ready.

What youll do (Role Expectations)

• Architect implement and optimize Splunk Enterprise Security from the ground up including ingestion pipelines CIM normalization indexer/search head clustering and HA/DR across DoD IL6 environment
• Design build and tune high-fidelity detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and DoD threat profiles while managing the full content lifecycle QA version control and false-positive reduction
• Define telemetry requirements and lead onboarding for cloud endpoint identity and network sources to ensure data quality normalization and enrichment to close coverage gaps
• Develop SOAR automation and triage workflows deliver analyst-facing dashboards and hunt workspaces and partner with Incident Response for operationalization and continuous improvement
• Operate the SIEM/SOAR platform for a 24/7 environment and ensure configurations retention encryption and RBAC align with FedRAMP DoD CC SRG and DISA STIGs

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You thrive in ambiguity. Youre comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
• You are a problem-solver. You seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
• You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedbackknowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.
• You operate with urgency. You understand that in a high-growth environment speed and quality are not mutually exclusive. You have a relentless focus on execution and a bias for action delivering high-impact results quickly to win for the customer and the team.
• You are a pragmatic builder. You are obsessed with creating iterating and shipping. You arent afraid to roll up your sleeves and build the first version yourself balancing the drive for technical excellence with the need to deliver value to users quickly.

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• US Citizenship and an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (Top Secret preferred) with a willingness to participate in an on-call rotation (nights and weekends)
• 8 years of security engineering or operations in FedRAMP/DoD environments supporting 24/7 mission needs
• Experienced in architecting administering and optimizing clustered Splunk Enterprise Security deployments including ingestion pipelines and CIM normalization across GovCloud/Secret regions
• Skilled at configuring data retention encryption and indexer/search head clustering for resilient compliant log management aligned to FedRAMP and DoD CC SRG
• Proficient in SPL to build and tune correlation searches dashboards and risk-based alerting; partnered with IR to improve signal quality and reduce false positives

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience operating in U.S. government cloud regions (AWS GovCloud/Secret; Azure Government/Azure DoD/Azure Secret) with DoDIL6 constraints
• Have or be able to obtain advanced DoD 8140 DCWF certification
• Expertise automating security workflows with Python or PowerShell including SOAR playbooks enrichment pipelines and CI/CD for content deployment

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