Cloud Security Lead - Zero Trust & Netskope Expert

Saic; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a Lead Cloud Security Engineer and Netskope Subject Matter Expert to design, engineer, implement, and secure cloud environments for complex enterprise and federal missions.

The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with cloud security, Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, and security compliance across programs. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and serve as a senior SME to customers and leadership.

Qualifications

• BS and 14+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity or cloud security.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Netskope/Blue Coat/Zscaler designing, implementing, or securing cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience as Security/Cloud Architect or Lead with secure enterprise infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience with Zero Trust architectures or ZTNA.
• Experience with cloud networking and security (VPCs, segmentation, routing, firewalls).
• Experience translating cybersecurity requirements into technical architecture.
• Experience producing architecture and engineering documentation.
• Experience troubleshooting complex cloud and network security issues.
• Experience leading technical pilots/demos and customer-facing SME.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, implement, and maintain secure infrastructure and security architectures, including access to on premise and cloud applications.
• Engineer and troubleshoot Software Defined Networking integrating Netskope and Cisco platforms.
• Develop and implement cloud security architectures based on Zero Trust principles, including identity-centric access controls, segmentation, and ZTNA.
• Design and implement SASE/SSE security capabilities, including SWG, Cloud Firewall, Private Access, and DLP.
• Integrate cloud security controls into DevSecOps and automated deployment workflows.
• Develop technical architecture documentation, design documentation, implementation plans, test plans, SOPs, and other engineering artifacts.
• Translate cybersecurity policies, security controls, and compliance requirements into implementable technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud and network security issues.
• Work with cybersecurity, network, cloud, application, and infrastructure teams to identify and resolve security and architecture issues.
• Lead technical evaluations, pilots, proofs-of-concepts, and phased deployments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and other technical personnel.
• Serve as a senior technical SME to customers, program leadership, security stakeholders, and engineering teams.

Skills

Cloud security

Zero Trust

ZTNA

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Netskope

Blue Coat / Zscaler

Cisco

Splunk

Wireshark

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

SAIC seeks a Lead Cloud Security Engineer and Netskope Subject Matter Expert to design, engineer, implement, and secure cloud environments for complex enterprise and federal missions.

The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with cloud security, Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, and security compliance across programs. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and serve as a senior SME to customers and leadership.