Zero Trust Platform Engineer – Illumio Core & Edge

Booz Allen; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking an Illumio Platform Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Illumio Core and Edge across on‑premises, virtualized, and cloud environments. You will drive Zero Trust segmentation, policy modeling, and integration with SIEM/SOAR/CMDB while coordinating with security architects.

Responsibilities include lifecycle management, workload onboarding, and collaboration with application owners to ensure secure segmentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, cloud security, or infrastructure engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, configuration, and optimization of Illumio Core and Illumio Edge across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Support the architecting and implementation of Zero Trust Segmentation policies, including application dependency mapping, labeling frameworks, enforcement boundaries, and zone-based controls.
• Develop Illumio workflows, runbooks, dashboards, and segmentation models for enterprise workloads and critical applications.
• Integrate Illumio with SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, C2C, vulnerability scanners, cloud-native controls, and enterprise automation pipelines.
• Analyze traffic flow using Illumio VEN telemetry and build policy recommendations to reduce attack surface.
• Troubleshoot system performance, VEN installation issues, policy conflicts, and platform health across distributed infrastructure.
• Collaborate with application owners to onboard workloads, validate segmentation plans, and support change management processes.
• Perform lifecycle management, including upgrades, health checks, certificate operations, and policy governance.
• Contribute to architectural standards, documentation, and enterprise security playbooks.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Cloud security

Infrastructure engineering

Linux/Windows

Scripting

Infrastructure automation

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

AWS

Azure

GCP

Illumio

CMDB

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

Booz Allen is seeking an Illumio Platform Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Illumio Core and Edge across on‑premises, virtualized, and cloud environments. You will drive Zero Trust segmentation, policy modeling, and integration with SIEM/SOAR/CMDB while coordinating with security architects.

Responsibilities include lifecycle management, workload onboarding, and collaboration with application owners to ensure secure segmentation.