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# Principal Network Security Defense Engineer - CALEA

- **Company:** Verizon Communications Inc.
- **Location:** Branchburg, NJ, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $120,500 - $231,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 4G (Telecommunication), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Network Functions Virtualization, OpenStack, Virtualization Technology, Software Vulnerability Management, Wireless Networks, Kubernetes, Cybercrime, Splunk
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88794250/1

## About the Role

You're a technical leader who is driven to pinpoint a problem and tenacious about finding a solution. You're organized and pay attention to details. You are the person that others rely on. You are accountable and follow through with a sense of urgency. You work across large and complex organizations to drive solutions. You seek out opportunities for automation. You present to executive leadership regularly on the team's critical business activities.
You'll need to have:

 * Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
 * Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
 * Working knowledge of the CALEA network functions and/or X1, X2, and X3 interfaces
 * Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
 * Demonstrated experience in managing and delivering results, with a proven track record.
 * Leadership experience as a subject matter expert.
 * Effective written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills.
 * Demonstrated organization and project management skills.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

 * Current federal security clearance
 * In depth experience with networks, 4G/5G wireless network functions, and virtualization technologies like Openstack and Kubernetes.
 * Network Security certifications such as CISSP and/or familiarity with Security frameworks such as NIST.
 * Experience with Splunk and other data analysis tools.
 * Proven ability to conduct asset discovery, security assessments, and risk evaluations.
 * Experience with security risk procedures, security patterns, authentication technologies and security attack pathologies.
 * Familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
 * In depth automation experience leveraging complex data sources and APIs to analyze complex datasets

## Description

* Discover, identify, and inventory all network assets and asset information (model, version, etc) in the CALEA network.
 * Build a deep understanding of the network assets and the roadmap to quickly assess the impact of vulnerabilities and identify End-of-Life/End-of-Support hardware/software.
 * Develop a baseline of normal operations and implement threat detections to alert of deviations to proactively identify potential cyber threats.
 * Develop incident response protocols to quickly identify, contain, and resolve network security incidents and threats.
 * Understand the current state of cybersecurity and improve the security posture through the implementation of the Network Security Fundamentals (Access Management, Situational Awareness, Configuration Hardening, Vulnerability Mitigation).
 * Ownership and accountability for the network security scorecard and help drive increased maturity, visibility, and subject-matter expertise.
 * Ensuring that the security controls planned for the Networks are operating effectively.
 * Build and drive automation for the team to be successful at scale across hundreds of network elements., Where you'll be workingIn this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.