Principal Engineer - Infrastructure and Cloud Security Engineer

Verizon; Basking Ridge (NJ); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness benefits

Matched 401(k) plan

Vacation and time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Verizon is looking for a seasoned Infrastructure & Cloud Security leader to drive governance, automation, and risk-aware design across Global Technology Solutions. You will partner with Cybersecurity, Network Security, and enterprise teams to enable secure digital transformation.

In this hybrid role, you’ll mentor engineers, deliver executive dashboards, and advance automation and analytics to improve security maturity, aligned with NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six+ years of relevant experience in information security, network tech or risk analysis.
• Experience with scripting and automation for data parsing and API interactions.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations with internal/external stakeholders.
• Automate governance reporting dashboards and scorecards.
• Design support for on-prem, data centers, and cloud environments.
• Identify gaps and drive process improvements for cybersecurity maturity.
• Provide security awareness and compliance training across teams.
• Partner with security teams on defensive operations and incident response.

Skills

Operational Leadership

Governance Automation

Infrastructure & Cloud Design

Security Awareness Training

Executive Reporting & Metrics

Team Mentorship

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4+ years

Tools

Splunk

Elasticsearch

Hadoop

Ansible

Grafana

Job description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you'll be doing...

Technology Strategy, Global Infrastructure & App Security (TSGI) is looking for an innovative and driven leader with a passion for Cybersecurity and Technology. This Infrastructure & Cloud Security Engineer will support a new organization dedicated to Infrastructure & Cloud Security Governance, specifically for our Global Technology Solutions (GTS) Enterprise Network. This role will partner and work closely with key cross-functional stakeholders, like Verizon Cybersecurity (VCS), Global Network & Technology (GNT) Network Security, and our GTS Enterprise Network teams, in order to protect our network and align on proactive security measures to effectively mitigate risks, enable safe digital transformation, and defend against emerging threats and vulnerabilities.

What we're looking for...

• Operational Leadership: Leading the day-to-day operations; this involves engaging both internal and external stakeholders, at times utilizing a dotted-line leadership approach.

• Governance Automation & Reporting: Automating and continuously improving Infrastructure and Cloud Security Governance reporting dashboards, scorecards and maturity models used to quantify and reduce cyber risks through actionable frameworks; this includes working with our Verizon India team to execute.

• Infrastructure & Cloud Design Support: Supporting the design of GTS On-Prem Network, Data centers and Cloud environments; along with GTS enterprise network and zero trust alignment.

• Process Improvement & Gap Analysis: Collaborating with stakeholders to identify gaps and process improvements in order to enhance security protections and improve cybersecurity maturity; this includes utilizing automation tools to measure program effectiveness.

• Security Awareness & Compliance Training: Providing security awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Network Cybersecurity practices; this will require leveraging the Mavens program, a team of security professionals who facilitate adoption of Security by Design.

• Defensive Modeling: Partnering with our Verizon Cybersecurity teams; to include participating in Active Defense and Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Red team and Threat Hunt campaigns, as well as Tabletop Exercises when necessary.

• Executive Reporting & Metrics: Producing executive-level operational read-outs, metrics, and project statuses that accurately capture the effectiveness of our team's mission.

• Strategic Goal Execution: Executing long-term and short-term strategic goals and ensuring proper updates are socialized to appropriate stakeholders; this requires cross-functional collaboration and relationship building to also achieve wider, organizational strategic goals.

• Team Mentorship & Skill Development: Motivating, mentoring, and advising network & infrastructure analysts and engineers on how to build and maintain skills and techniques needed to produce quality work products. This includes hosting focused training sessions to teach new and specialized skill sets.

• Collaborative Culture & Accountability: Promoting an environment of collaboration and individual accountability when it comes to problem-solving, decision-making, and process improvements.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience in Information Security, Network Technology or Technical Risk Analysis

• Experience with scripting and programming for automation of data parsing, API interactions, and custom tool development.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Knowledge and experience in analyzing large datasets (e.g., netflow, firewall, DNS, Proxy, VPN logs) to identify anomalies and perform in-depth analytics.

• Experience with data analytical tools such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, or Hadoop

• Experience in creating, modifying, and executing Ansible playbooks for automation, configuration management, and orchestration of security deployments across diverse network devices and servers.

• Understanding on how to develop and configure dashboards and visualizations with tools like Grafana.

• Comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity, network defense, and investigative frameworks (such as NIST CSF, ISO 27000 series, MITRE ATT&CK, Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, etc.) into network defense processes

• High-level understanding of Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, OCI) and Operating Systems (Windows, Unix/Linux, and OSX)

• Certifications like: CCNA, Network+, Security+, CISSP

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Where you'll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $120,500.00 - $231,000.00.