Senior Network Security Architect — Zero Trust & SASE Leader

Global Payments Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to lead the Secure Access and Zero Trust transformation across a global enterprise. You will own architectures for Zscaler and Palo Alto platforms, design scalable security controls, and drive automation, resilience, and operational maturity.

You’ll mentor teams, collaborate across security, infrastructure, and application teams, and contribute to readiness and post-implementation reviews for major initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 12+ years of experience in network security within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Hands-on expertise with Zscaler technologies and Secure Access architectures at enterprise scale.
• Experience with Palo Alto security platforms (Panorama, NGFW, Threat Prevention, Prisma Access).

Responsibilities

• Lead Secure Access and Zero Trust transformation journey, providing technical leadership and strategic direction for SASE, SWG, Proxy, Secure Access, and related network security services.
• Own architecture, engineering, and continuous improvement of Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA), Palo Alto (Panorama, NGFW, Threat Prevention, Prisma Access), and associated security platforms across a global enterprise environment.
• Design, implement, and optimize scalable security controls and policies for internet access, private application access, SSL inspection, traffic steering, threat prevention, and Zero Trust access models.
• Drive operational excellence and platform reliability through standardization, tuning, automation, telemetry improvements, SIEM integration, and data-driven performance metrics.
• Lead high-quality change management and major initiatives, including rollout planning, validation, risk mitigation, rollback readiness, and post-implementation reviews.
• Serve as the senior technical authority and final escalation point for complex issues, high-risk changes, major incidents, and cross-functional initiatives impacting critical security services.
• Mentor engineers and partner with security, infrastructure, operations, application teams, and vendors to establish best practices, improve operational maturity, and deliver secure, resilient, and scalable services.

Skills

Zscaler expertise

Secure Access architectures

Palo Alto platforms

Networking fundamentals

Security leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA)

Palo Alto Panorama

NGFW / Threat Prevention / Prisma Access

Job description

Worldpay is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to lead the Secure Access and Zero Trust transformation across a global enterprise. You will own architectures for Zscaler and Palo Alto platforms, design scalable security controls, and drive automation, resilience, and operational maturity.

You’ll mentor teams, collaborate across security, infrastructure, and application teams, and contribute to readiness and post-implementation reviews for major initiatives.