Zero Trust Security Engineer — Core & Edge

ENS Solutions, LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401k contributions from Day 1

PTO plus 11 holidays

Comprehensive health coverage

Job summary

ENS Solutions, LLC is seeking a skilled cybersecurity and infrastructure engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Illumio Core and Illumio Edge across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments. You will architect Zero Trust segmentation, map dependencies, label resources, and enforce boundaries to protect enterprise workloads.

Join a team that integrates Illumio with SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, and vulnerability tools, building dashboards, runbooks, and segmentation models.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, cloud security, or infrastructure engineering.
• 3+ years of Linux/Windows systems, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 2+ years developing and deploying solutions for highly regulated mission-critical environments (finance, healthcare, federal, or energy).
• 1+ year experience with infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, or similar).
• 1+ year experience with REST APIs, scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell), or automation frameworks.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master’s degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
• Ability to obtain CSSP-IS and related certifications within specified windows.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, deployment, configuration, and optimization of Illumio Core and Illumio Edge across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Architect and implement 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.
• Conduct traffic flow analysis using Illumio VEN telemetry and build policy recommendations to reduce attack surface and limit east-west movement.
• Troubleshoot system performance, VEN installation issues, policy conflicts, and platform health across distributed infrastructure.
• Partner with application owners to onboard workloads, validate segmentation plans, and support change management processes.
• Perform lifecycle management: upgrades, health checks, certificate operations, and policy governance.
• Collaborate with security architects to align Illumio policy models with broader Zero Trust and NIST 800-207 strategies.
• Contribute to architectural standards, documentation, and enterprise security playbooks.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Cloud security

Infrastructure engineering

REST APIs

Scripting

TS/SCI clearance

Education

Associate’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Illumio Core/Edge

VMware

Hyper-V

AWS

Azure

GCP

ServiceNow

SIEM

SOAR

C2C

CMDB

Job description

ENS Solutions, LLC is seeking a skilled cybersecurity and infrastructure engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Illumio Core and Illumio Edge across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments. You will architect Zero Trust segmentation, map dependencies, label resources, and enforce boundaries to protect enterprise workloads.

Join a team that integrates Illumio with SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, and vulnerability tools, building dashboards, runbooks, and segmentation models.