Zero Trust Security Architect — Zscaler & Cloud VPN

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & PTO

Stock Purchase Plan

Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Zero Trust Security Architect to lead design and optimization of secure connectivity across global cloud and hybrid environments. Focus areas include ZTNA, Zscaler, cloud VPN, SASE, and SSE to support secure operations and M&A integration.

The candidate should have strong cloud security, identity-aware networking, and enterprise security transformation experience, with architecture leadership and hands-on implementation capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security architecture, network security, cloud security or enterprise security engineering roles.
• Deep Zero Trust Architecture and ZTNA expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Zscaler including ZIA/ZPA and DLP.
• Experience designing enterprise cloud VPN, remote access, hybrid-cloud networking.
• Strong understanding of SASE, SSE, cloud-native security architectures.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/multi-cloud environments and connectivity services.
• Knowledge of enterprise identity systems, MFA, RBAC, least-privilege access models.
• Experience supporting M&A security integration and enterprise-scale network transformation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise Zero Trust security architectures across identity, endpoints, applications, networks, and data access pathways.
• Architect secure connectivity solutions including cloud VPN, site-to-site VPN, remote access, ZTNA, and hybrid-cloud access models.
• Design, implement, and optimize Zscaler capabilities (ZIA, ZPA, DLP) and policy enforcement.
• Define identity-aware access models based on least-privilege principles.
• Lead secure integration and connectivity planning for new business platforms and initiatives.
• Architect migration planning and target-state architecture for mergers and acquisitions.
• Conduct threat modeling and security risk assessments focused on access flows and data protection.
• Develop security architecture standards, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, and application teams to embed governance into solutions.
• Evaluate Zscaler, SASE, SSE, VPN technologies against business and security needs.

Skills

Zero Trust Architecture

ZTNA

Identity-Aware Access Controls

Cloud Security

Security Architecture Leadership

M&A Security Integration

Threat Modeling

Security Compliance (PCI-DSS SOX GDPR)

Tools

Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA)

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Zero Trust Security Architect to lead design and optimization of secure connectivity across global cloud and hybrid environments. Focus areas include ZTNA, Zscaler, cloud VPN, SASE, and SSE to support secure operations and M&A integration.

The candidate should have strong cloud security, identity-aware networking, and enterprise security transformation experience, with architecture leadership and hands-on implementation capabilities.