Cyber Security/ZScaler Engineer

GD Information Technology•Rockville, MD

14d•Onsite

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Sr. Cyber Security Analyst supporting our HHS HRSA customer onsite. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION Responsibilities: As a Sr. Cyber Security Analyst with hands-on ZScaler experience, you will work with the existing Cyber Security Team to provide guidance, installation, implementation and support of existing and new infrastructure. Will perform minor and major ruleset upgrades, as needed. Develop and deliver stock and adhoc ZIA reporting, as requested. Help with technical support in Change Management processes that directly impact production environment. Document and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Responding to requests and incidents within the Service Level Agreement (SLA). Work with Program and Project management throughout the period of performance. Attend team and customer meetings. Provide training to the government, and their successors, on details of the administration, maintenance, support and operational use of the solution. Participates in special projects, as needed. Resolve technical problems that occur and on-call support for non-business hours. Report daily at the customer location (this is an onsite position). Provide Weekly and on-demand Status Reports on work performed.

Requirements

Associates degree in a related STEM field or equivalent experience and at least 3 years of Cyber Security experience.
Must have hands on experience with Zscaler
2+ years of experience in large-scale enterprise environment
Must be able to obtain and maintain a MBI/T2 level clearance
Foundational networking and DNS skills
Experience with routing, network forwarding, and traffic inspection
ZIA, ZPA, ZDX configuration and policy setup
Familiarity with log forwarding protocols (Syslog, GRE/IPSec tunnels, etc.)
Comfortable with static IP configuration, NAT, and subnetting
Ability to work with private Service Edges, App Connectors, and ZTNA policies
Exposure to firewall policies, proxy chaining, and PAC file management
Application development from ZPA
Okta, CyberArk, Splunk integration
Troubleshooting connectivity and latency issues across distributed architectures
Working knowledge of SSL inspection, VPN integration, MFA, and identity providers
Familiar with ServiceNow (SNOW) for working on requests and incident tickets.

Nice To Haves

ZScaler or Security+ Certified
Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint and MS Teams.
Experience with MS Teams Planner, ServiceNow and/or JIRA
Experience with any HHS agencies or entities
Demonstrated strong technical skills and analytic abilities, as well as experience performing system security analysis and risk management.
Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks with minimal direction.
Demonstrated experience in translating an understanding of systems and applications into test plans and perform hands on testing.
Possesses experience with communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to stakeholders.
Possess a broad knowledge of ZScaler best practices, policies and guidance.

Responsibilities

Provide guidance, installation, implementation and support of existing and new infrastructure.
Perform minor and major ruleset upgrades, as needed.
Develop and deliver stock and adhoc ZIA reporting, as requested.
Help with technical support in Change Management processes that directly impact production environment.
Document and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
Responding to requests and incidents within the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Work with Program and Project management throughout the period of performance.
Attend team and customer meetings.
Provide training to the government, and their successors, on details of the administration, maintenance, support and operational use of the solution.
Participates in special projects, as needed.
Resolve technical problems that occur and on-call support for non-business hours.
Report daily at the customer location (this is an onsite position).
Provide Weekly and on-demand Status Reports on work performed.

Benefits

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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