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# Zero Trust Security Engineer

- **Company:** Everforth Apex
- **Location:** Pensacola, FL, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection Systems, Role-Based Access Control, Zero Trust Network Access, Systems Integration, Firewalls (Computer Science), Firewall Services Module
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/caa91785-3e44-4c66-ba58-3c766474bdd9

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience working with enterprise firewalls (Palo Alto preferred).
 * Strong understanding of user-based and application-aware firewall policies.
 * Experience submitting and managing firewall rule requests in enterprise environments.
 * Ability to validate security rule implementations and troubleshoot access issues.
 * Strong coordination and communication skills across technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions.
 * Familiarity with IAM, Entra ID groups, AD groups, and RBAC models.
 * Experience integrating firewall rules with application onboarding frameworks.
 * Knowledge of audit, compliance, and security reporting requirements.

## Description

The Zero Trust Security Engineer is responsible for driving the implementation of Zero Trust security rules. This role is execution-focused and serves as the single point of accountability for ensuring Zero Trust rules are implemented correctly, completely, and are auditable across firewall and security platforms. This involves formal requests to firewall teams, ongoing coordination, validation of changes, and post-implementation verification., * Translate Zero Trust analysis outputs into formal firewall and security rule requests.

 * Submit detailed implementation requests to firewall teams, including source identities, destination applications, addresses, services, required ports, protocols, and application IDs., * Act as the primary liaison between Zero Trust, IAM, firewall engineering, and application teams.* Track firewall requests from submission through completion.* Resolve implementation questions, clarifications, or discrepancies with firewall engineers.* Validate that implemented firewall rules match approved Zero Trust requirements.* Perform post-implementation testing to confirm authorized access works as expected and unauthorized access is blocked.* Ensure all implemented rules are properly tagged, documented, and traceable to application and Zero Trust requirements.* Maintain implementation records for audit, compliance, and reporting.* Support ongoing refinement of Zero Trust rules as application access requirements evolve.Required Qualifications


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