Sr Cybersecurity Engineer/SOC/Zero Trust

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Security Engineer – Sr Cybersecurity Engineer/SOC/Zero Trust

Location: Hartford, CT
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite
Job Type: Contract

Job Summary

As a member of the IT Security team, the Director, Security Operations & Zero Trust is responsible for leading and managing the Security Operations and Zero Trust/Security Service Edge (SSE) functions. The Director owns the security tower, including its people, processes, technologies, service providers, projects, operational performance, and continuous improvement roadmap.

This is a technical management and leadership role requiring prior hands-on cybersecurity experience. The successful candidate will have the technical depth to understand and challenge solutions, guide engineering decisions, direct complex incident response, and effectively manage internal resources, vendors, consultants, and managed service providers. The role is approximately 40% Security Operations, 40% Zero Trust/SSE, and 20% broader cybersecurity.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Security Operations

Lead outsourced Security Operations Center (SOC) and serve as the primary point of accountability for security monitoring, incident escalation, response, and continuous improvement.

Direct significant cybersecurity incidents by coordinating internal teams, service providers, and business stakeholders through investigation, containment, remediation, and resolution.

Ensure effective detection, triage, investigation, and escalation; review case quality, alert prioritization, documentation, and adherence to established playbooks.

Develop and improve SOC processes, runbooks, detection capabilities, operational workflows, and automation.

Establish and monitor SLAs, KPIs, service metrics, and performance expectations; hold providers accountable for quality and results.

Partner with infrastructure, network, cloud, IAM, vulnerability management, and application teams to investigate and remediate threats and onboard appropriate monitoring for new services.

Apply relevant threat intelligence and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures to security operations.

Zero Trust & Security Service Edge

Provide management, technical leadership, and operational ownership of Zero Trust and SSE capabilities.

Lead the design, implementation, operation, and improvement of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), data protection, and related capabilities.

Establish policies governing secure access to internet resources, SaaS and private applications, cloud services, and enterprise resources.

Advance identity-aware access, least privilege, application segmentation, contextual access controls, and continuous verification.

Direct configuration, integration, troubleshooting, and optimization while balancing security, user experience, application availability, and business needs.

Lead resolution of complex connectivity, authentication, application access, policy enforcement, and security inspection issues.

Partner across network, endpoint, IAM, cloud, and application teams; develop roadmaps and manage supporting technology vendors and service providers.

Experience with enterprise SSE platforms such as Zscaler, Netskope, or equivalent technologies is highly desirable.

Cybersecurity Leadership

Provide leadership and technical guidance for network, cloud, identity, vulnerability management, data protection, and security architecture initiatives.

Lead cybersecurity projects from planning and design through implementation, transition to operations, and ongoing support.

Define security requirements for cloud migrations and technology implementations and validate appropriate controls.

Participate in risk assessments, audits, technical assessments, governance, and remediation activities.

Identify improvements to security processes, technologies, automation, operational effectiveness, and resiliency.

Communicate security risks, operational performance, priorities, and technical issues to management and other stakeholders.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

College degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent specialized training and relevant work experience.

7–10 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant experience in security operations, security engineering, network security, Zero Trust, or related disciplines.

Demonstrated experience managing technical teams, security functions, and/or complex cybersecurity projects.

Prior hands-on experience in security operations, security engineering, network security, or Zero Trust/SSE technologies, with the depth to lead professionals performing these functions.

Ability to operate as a technical manager, balancing leadership responsibilities with direct technical problem-solving when required.

Experience leading cross-functional teams and resources across security, infrastructure, networking, cloud, IAM, applications, and business functions.

Experience managing outsourced or offshore SOC teams, managed security service providers, consultants, and technology vendors.

Ability to establish priorities, define responsibilities, measure performance, manage competing demands, and drive accountability.

Experience leading cybersecurity or infrastructure projects through planning, design, implementation, and transition to operations.

Strong knowledge of security monitoring, incident response, SIEM/SOAR technologies, threat detection, and security operations practices.

Hands-on experience with Zero Trust and SSE technologies, including ZTNA, SWG, CASB, SSPM, and related cloud-delivered controls.

Experience administering, engineering, or supporting Zscaler, Netskope, or equivalent enterprise SSE platforms.

Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture, least-privilege access, identity-aware controls, application segmentation, and secure remote access.

Strong enterprise networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxies, firewalls, VPN, TLS/SSL inspection, and troubleshooting.

Experience securing hybrid environments and translating cybersecurity strategy into roadmaps, projects, operational processes, and measurable outcomes.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, project management, communication, collaboration, and relationship-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AWS; Microsoft Azure experience is a plus.

Experience securing applications and workloads during cloud migrations and integrating SSE, identity, endpoint, SIEM, cloud security, and data protection technologies.

Experience with security automation and orchestration.

CISSP, CCSP, cloud security/architecture, networking, Zero Trust, SSE, or relevant vendor certification.

Thanks

Prasanna
Recruitment Manager       

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