Illumio Zero Trust Platform Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton9 days ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and optimize Illumio Core and Illumio Edge across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
- Architect and implement Zero Trust Segmentation policies, application dependency maps, labeling frameworks, enforcement boundaries, and zone-based controls.
- Develop Illumio workflows, runbooks, dashboards, segmentation models, architectural standards, and enterprise security playbooks.
- Integrate Illumio with SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, C2C, vulnerability scanners, cloud-native controls, and enterprise automation pipelines.
- Analyze traffic flows using Illumio VEN telemetry and develop policy recommendations to reduce attack surface and lateral movement.
- Troubleshoot VEN installation issues, policy conflicts, system performance, and platform health across distributed infrastructure.
- Partner with application owners to onboard workloads, validate segmentation plans, and support change management.
- Perform platform upgrades, health checks, certificate operations, and policy governance aligned with Zero Trust and NIST 800-207 strategies.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or infrastructure engineering.
- At least 3 years of experience with Linux or Windows systems, virtualization including VMware or Hyper-V, and cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- At least 2 years of experience deploying solutions for highly regulated mission-critical environments such as finance, healthcare, federal, or energy.
- At least 1 year of experience with infrastructure automation tools.
- At least 1 year of experience with REST APIs, Python, Bash, PowerShell, or automation frameworks.
- Secret clearance is required.
- An Associate’s degree plus 5 years, Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years, or Master’s degree plus 1 year of experience supporting IT projects and activities.
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III certification within 45 days of start date and a DoD 8570.01-M Infrastructure Support certification within 30 days.
- Experience with Illumio Adaptive Security Platform, CMDB systems such as ServiceNow, SIEM and SOAR tools, or vulnerability management platforms is preferred.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust principles, micro-segmentation, lateral movement mitigation, and translating policies into technical controls is preferred.
- Illumio certifications and strong analytical and problem-solving skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Full-time and part-time employees regularly working at least 20 hours per week may participate in benefit programs, while others receive select offerings.
- Work-model expectations vary by classification, with remote roles potentially requiring occasional in-person work and hybrid or onsite roles requiring facility or customer-site work as applicable.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).