Cybersecurity Engineer; Zero Trust Security Clearance

Position: Cybersecurity Engineer (Zero Trust) with Security Clearance
Amyx is seeking a Zero Trust Cyber Security Engineer (CSE) to support our TRANSCOM J6 SISO contract located at Scott AFB, IL In this role, you will help plan, implement, and track Zero Trust Architecture goals and objectives of our customer. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with our team and customer to help assess As-Is Zero Trust efforts to achieve both 2027 targets as well as set the team on the path to success for 2032 Advanced requirements.

This job will require you to become the resident expert in one of the seven pillars and help guide the team to the solutions that ensure mission success while making it the number one priority to protect our data, systems, and personnel. Responsibilities Closely collaborating with customers (both executive and technical audiences), our company, and our partners to:

• Perform Zero Trust security readiness assessments (e.g. gap analyses, maturity assessments)

• Develop Zero Trust implementation roadmaps

• Design and implement technical Zero Trust security solutions

• Provide customer advice on and help lead policy, governance, process, workflow, and organizational change

• Work to infuse Zero Trust design principles across all pillars in a Zero Trust model (e.g. Users, Devices, Networks, Applications, Data, etc.)

• Lead enterprise-wide, end-to-end Zero Trust architecture projects involving cutting edge technologies and concepts, such as SD-WAN, SASE, edge computing, cloud technologies, enterprise identity, microservices, containers, encryption, tokenization, AI, ML, SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, threat modeling, etc.

• Coordinate with appropriate organizational stakeholders to ensure Zero Trust is implemented, end-to-end across customer environments

• Develop innovative approaches and create efficiencies to our existing practices

• Work across government and industry to evaluate and shape policy around Zero Trust and related topics

• Stay abreast of federal and commercial best practices, implementations, and solutions to infuse into our client environments

• Articulate security concerns and risks related to currently implemented or planned solutions and develop remediation or mitigation plans

• Map government/customer requirements and security control frameworks (e.g. NIST, DISA, OMB, etc.) to designed technical controls

• Assist in the continued documentation of the current enterprise ZT program to Zero Trust 152 activities

• Apply professional-level functional knowledge to solve problems requiring the identification and analysis of moderately complex issues

• Serve in a supporting role to the Pillar Leads and responsible for leading the effort to organize the execution of blueprint by influencing and building the appropriate coalitions across multiple departments and disciplines and serve as a Subject Manager Expert in the respective domain area

• Drive the development of the technology strategy and roadmap towards a Zero Trust paradigm including integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Data Security, Endpoint Security, Policy, and Trust engines, providing recommendations and solutions with full understanding of cross-organizational impact and needs

• Utilize threat modeling techniques to develop Zero Trust controls to be applied to architecture, data, network, and applications

• Partner with IT organization to shift the access and authentication paradigm across the Enterprise to Zero Trust and reduce risk to include insider threat

• Work with or establish teams within the architecture supporting policies and standards and provide in-depth knowledge and guidelines driving towards a Zero Trust solution

• Mentor systems engineering and architects on cyber architecture and engineering design to create zero trust architectures and solutions

• Proactively accumulate and maintain knowledge of current and merging/evolving technologies, concepts, and trends
• Must have the ability to communicate accurate information Technologies used:
Zero Trust, Palo Alto, Juniper, Splunk ,ELK, Sparx, Cisco ISE, Tanium, AWS, Azure, MDE Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in one of the following: computer engineering, computer science, IT, cyber security,…