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# Zero Trust Security Engineer

- **Company:** System One
- **Location:** Vienna, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $156,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection Systems, Zero Trust Network Access, Firewalls (Computer Science), Firewall Services Module
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_systemoneservices-cb7d8ed5

## About the Role

Requirements * 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.

## Description

Job Title: Zero Trust Security Engineer Location: Vienna, VA Type: Contract Compensation: 65-75/hr W2 Work Model: Hybrid - onsite and remote Responsibilities * Translate Zero Trust analysis outputs into formal firewall and security rule requests. * Submit detailed implementation requests to firewall teams, including: source identities (users, groups, roles), destination applications, addresses, and services, required ports, protocols, and application IDs. * Ensure requests meet firewall team standards and contain all required technical details. * 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 exactly match approved Zero Trust requirements. * Perform post-implementation testing to confirm authorized access works as expected and
unauthorized access is blocked. * Identify and remediate misconfigurations, partial implementations, or policy drift. * 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.