Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Secure Access & Network Security
About The Position
Sentara Health is seeking an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join its Cybersecurity Engineering team. The role designs, implements, optimizes, and supports enterprise security technologies across a large, complex environment. The immediate focus is Secure Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust, and Zscaler technologies, with work also spanning network security, cloud, identity, and endpoint security initiatives. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong technical troubleshooting, networking fundamentals, security expertise, and technical leadership. The engineer owns complex issues, collaborates across technology domains, and drives initiatives from architecture and design through implementation, production stabilization, and operational handoff. The role also involves translating architectural direction into scalable solutions, leading cross-functional discussions, communicating findings and recommendations, mentoring engineers, and identifying improvements to automation, reliability, processes, and operational support.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience supporting SSE/SASE, Zero Trust, network security, cloud security, or related enterprise security technologies.
- Strong experience with Zscaler technologies, including ZIA, ZPA, ZCC, ZDX, GRE/IPsec tunnels, SSL/TLS inspection, proxy/traffic forwarding, and policy troubleshooting.
- Strong networking and troubleshooting expertise across TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, VPN, PKI/certificates, HTTP/HTTPS, proxies, and application connectivity, including packet and log analysis.
- Experience with enterprise identity and cloud technologies, including Microsoft Entra ID/Active Directory, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, Conditional Access, and Azure or comparable cloud platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex security implementations and production troubleshooting through operational handoff.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Zscaler, CCNP/CCIE, PCNSE, Microsoft Security/Azure, CISSP, or Security+ certifications.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, optimize, and support enterprise security technologies.
- Take ownership of complex technical issues and use evidence-based methods to identify root causes and drive resolution.
- Translate architectural direction into scalable technical solutions while identifying risks, dependencies, and operational considerations.
- Lead cross-functional technical discussions and troubleshooting across cybersecurity, network, cloud, identity, endpoint, and infrastructure teams.
- Communicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, leadership, and vendors.
- Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, processes, and operational support.
- Lead complex security implementations and production troubleshooting from architecture and design through implementation, stabilization, documentation, and operational handoff.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Adoption, fertility, and surrogacy reimbursement up to $10,000
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Paid parental and family caregiver leave
- Emergency backup care
- Long-term and short-term disability and critical illness plans
- Life insurance
- 401(k)/403(b) with employer match
- Tuition assistance of $5,250 per year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
- Student debt pay down up to $10,000
- Pet insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
- Opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus, subject to system and employee eligibility criteria
- Educational assistance or student loan repayment
- Paid military leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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