Senior IT Security Ops Engineer: Zero Trust & Cloud

Zscaler; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Vacation & sick time

Parental leave

Retirement options

Education reimbursement

In-office perks

Job summary

Zscaler is seeking a Senior IT Security Operations Engineer, Corporate Infrastructure for a Remote within the United States with a hybrid preference for San Jose, CA. You will be the operational backbone of the security team, keeping policies tuned and platforms healthy while supporting ZIA, ZPA, and ZDX to mature our DevSecOps model.

You’ll own day-to-day security operations, tune CSPM/DSPM policies, assist with incident response, and collaborate across environments to drive secure, scalable

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required due to customer security requirements.
• 5+ years of IT security operations, network security, or related technical domain.
• Hands-on experience administering ZIA and/or ZPA security platforms.
• Working knowledge of zero trust concepts, including identity verification, RBAC and posture checking.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational support, configuration, policy tuning, and platform health monitoring for ZIA, ZPA, ZDX, AI Security, and Cloud Security.
• Configure and maintain zero trust policies covering user-to-application access, posture checking, SSL/TLS inspection, content filtering, and access control.
• Deploy CSPM and DSPM policies, collaborating with environment owners on remediation.
• Utilize ZDX to monitor application and user experience issues, correlating findings with network and security telemetry to identify root causes.
• Support DLP policy tuning, alert triage, SOP documentation, and on-call incident response while helping automate repetitive workflows.

Skills

AI tools curiosity

Security operations

Zero Trust concepts

Cloud architectures

OS fundamentals

Networking basics

Tools

Zscaler ZIA

Zscaler ZPA

Job description

Zscaler is seeking a Senior IT Security Operations Engineer, Corporate Infrastructure for a Remote within the United States with a hybrid preference for San Jose, CA. You will be the operational backbone of the security team, keeping policies tuned and platforms healthy while supporting ZIA, ZPA, and ZDX to mature our DevSecOps model.

You’ll own day-to-day security operations, tune CSPM/DSPM policies, assist with incident response, and collaborate across environments to drive secure, scalable