Princ Engr-network Design

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We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect to lead the design and optimization of our secure network architecture across our hybrid IT environment - spanning both on-premises infrastructure and multiple-cloud platforms (e.g.AWS, Axure, GCP etc). This role focuses on enforcing robust security principles such as Zero Trust Architecture, network segmentation and intrusion detection and prevention, ensuring a consistent and secure access model across all environments. You will play a key role in modernizing network security, reducing attack surfaces, and ensuring that security scales with our global operations and digital transformation.

**What you’ll be doing...**

**Key Responsibilities**

**Hybrid Network Security Architecture**
- Architect and design secure network architecture across hybrid environments, encompassing data centers, campus, branch offices, and public/private cloud.
- Develop architecture patterns that ensure consistent security posture, traffic visibility and policy enforcement across cloud and on-prem networks.
- Align networking and security design with zero trust principles, ensuring trust is continuously evaluated and enforced regardless of environment and location

**Zero Trust and Network Segmentation**
- Define a zero trust model that includes identity-aware access, device trust, microsegmentation and continuous verification
- Architect and develop network segmentation strategies to isolate workloads, limit lateral movement and enforce least privilege across cloud and on-prem environments
- Establish trust zones, access control policies, and segmentation boundaries in hybrid architecture

**Intrusion Detection and Threat Monitoring**
- Design and deploy intrusion detection and prevention systems tailed for hybrid environments
- Integrate network detection and response tools with cloud-native services and on-prem infrastructure to ensure end-to-end threat visibility
- Collaborate with SOC and threat intel teams to operationalize detection logic and incident response capability

**Policy Enforcement and Access Control**
- Define ACLs and NAC systems for secure access across multiple trust zones
- Ensure consistent policy management and enforcement using next-gen firewalls, identity-aware proxy, network access brokers and zero trust gateways.

**Compliance and Risk Mitigation**
- Ensure architectural decision meet internal and external compliance requirements
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with network design, configuration, third-party integration in a hybrid environment

**What we’re looking for...**:
You’ll need to have:

- Bachelor's or six or more years of experience.
- Ten or more years of experience in enterprise network architecture and security.
- Strong expertise in security frameworks, CASB, SWG, ZTNA, and cloud security.
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and cloud-native security models.
- Experience designing and implementing zero trust architectures.
- Strong understanding of industry security standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS benchmarks.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to executives and stakeholders.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CCIE, AWS/Azure Security, or SASE-related certifications are a plus.
- Self-motivated and forward-thinking
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

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

- An Engineering degree.
- Integrating future network security solutions leveraging cloud-based frameworks such as Secure System Edge(SSE), CASB, Web, DLP and future ZTNA protection policies and services.
- Developing overall implementation schedules, progression metrics and timelines leveraging tools like Smartsheets to measure program success, engineering capacity, and clear unexpected roadblocks.
- Building end-of-service and maintenance forecasts to plan technology refresh cycles and ongoing software compliance for cyber health and security.

**Where you’ll be working**: In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

**Scheduled Weekly Hours**: 40

**Equal Employment Opportunity**:
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We eval