Senior Zero Trust Security Architect (ZTNA, ZIA/ZPA)

Cognizant

Dover (DE)

On-site

USD 134,000 - 155,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Zero Trust Security Architect to design and optimize secure connectivity across global cloud and hybrid environments. You will focus on ZTNA, Zscaler, cloud VPN architectures, and SSE/SASE technologies to enable secure business operations and M&A integration.

The role requires leadership, security transformation expertise, and hands-on implementation experience with enterprise security controls and governance.

Qualifications

8+ years in Security/Enterprise Architecture roles.
Deep expertise in Zero Trust, ZTNA, and secure connectivity.
Hands-on with Zscaler ZIA/ZPA and cloud security services.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enterprise Zero Trust architectures across identity, endpoints, apps, and networks.
Architect secure connectivity: cloud VPN, site-to-site, remote access, ZTNA, hybrid-cloud.
Lead security integration for new platforms and M&A initiatives.
Develop standards, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps.
Collaborate with cloud engineering and security teams to embed controls.

Skills

Zero Trust Architecture

ZTNA

Cloud security

Security leadership

Stakeholder management

Security architecture

Identity & access management

Tools

Zscaler ZIA

Zscaler ZPA

Cloud VPN

SASE

Job description

The role requires leadership, security transformation expertise, and hands-on implementation experience with enterprise security controls and governance.

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