Zero Trust Engineer — Federal Security & RMF Expert

True Zero Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Best in class medical coverage

401k with company match

Paid holidays

PTO

Training and certification support

Job summary

True Zero Technologies is seeking Zero Trust Engineers to translate enterprise Zero Trust Use Cases and reusable patterns into executable, system-specific implementation activities for Government-prioritized VA information systems.

Engineers will support planning, technical reviews, pilots, validation, testing, operational readiness, and documentation across repeatable deployment waves, coordinating with pillar specialists, cybersecurity engineers, and system teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Five or more years of systems, security, cloud, network, identity, or application engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise security capabilities in complex environments.
• Working knowledge of Zero Trust architectures, NIST SP 800-207, and Federal security requirements.
• Strong troubleshooting, testing, technical documentation, and cross-team coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess applicability of prioritized enterprise Zero Trust Use Cases to assigned FISMA-reportable systems.
• Develop system-specific Engineering and Implementation Plans using reusable patterns and documented deviations.
• Prepare implementation schedules, test plans, deployment playbooks, pilot strategies, rollback considerations, and operational readiness criteria.
• Support technical implementation, architecture verification, regression testing, pilot execution, and validation of intended Zero Trust outcomes.
• Document implementation status, unresolved dependencies, architectural deviations, results, and lessons learned.
• Support transition of completed implementations into sustainable operations, governance, and RMF processes without assuming Government production authority.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Cross-team coordination

Zero Trust architectures

NIST SP 800-207 knowledge

Security engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Security+

CISSP

CCSP

Azure Security Engineer

AWS Security Specialty

Job description

True Zero Technologies is seeking Zero Trust Engineers to translate enterprise Zero Trust Use Cases and reusable patterns into executable, system-specific implementation activities for Government-prioritized VA information systems.

Engineers will support planning, technical reviews, pilots, validation, testing, operational readiness, and documentation across repeatable deployment waves, coordinating with pillar specialists, cybersecurity engineers, and system teams.