Information Security Engineer

Title

Information Security Engineer

Full Time – Contract (18 Months).

Location:

Irving, TX (Hybrid-3 days onsite and 2 days Remote).

• Operate and mature the Illumio micro-segmentation platform (SaaS with limited on-prem presence), including VEN agent lifecycle management across Windows, Linux, and future AIX workloads.
• Design, validate, and deploy least-privilege segmentation policies, ensuring safe verification via traffic telemetry before and after enforcement.
• Analyze traffic flow telemetry and delay metrics across ingestion pipelines and SIEM tooling to validate platform health, identify regressions, and distinguish policy issues from platform/vendor constraints.
• Incident response and vendor escalation with Illumio engineering, including SaaS scaling events, maintenance windows, and potential data integrity risks.
• Partner with Network Engineering, NOC/NMC, application teams, and platform owners to coordinate production changes, policy deployments, and change-management activities.
• Maintain and evolve security standards, baselines, and deployment guidance for enterprise micro-segmentation aligned to governance, audit, and risk requirements.
• Support large-scale onboarding and migration efforts including SaaS cutovers, phased policy enforcement, and certification of segmentation controls for high-risk and payment applications.

• Micro-Segmentation & Zero Trust – Hands‑on experience with workload‑level segmentation and lateral‑movement prevention. Ability to move from visibility to enforcement safely in production environments.
• Illumio or Equivalent – Strong understanding of VEN agents, SaaS policy engines, enforcement modes, and migration considerations. Comfort working directly with vendor engineering teams during live operational issues.
• Traffic Telemetry Analysis – Strong proficiency with SIEM tools, time‑based analysis, distributions, and baselining. Ability to reason about event ingestion pipelines and telemetry delivery end‑to‑end.
• Operating Systems Infrastructure – Linux and Windows server fundamentals. Understanding of application communication patterns, service dependencies, and network flows.
• Operational Maturity – Experience with production change management and incident response. Ability to halt or delay enforcement when telemetry or validation is insufficient.
• Communication & Influence – Ability to clearly communicate technical risk, impact, and recommendations to engineers, leadership, and vendors. Comfortable translating telemetry and failures into executive‑level summaries.

Pay Range: $48/hr to $53/hr pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits:
Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre‑paid legal &  protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).