Staff Cybersecurity Engineer - Zero Trust

Job Description

This role offers the following Work strategies:

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Mountain View or Warren, you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at a minimum

The Role:

The role serves as a member of the Secure Access Services team, providing deep network access analysis and zero trust solution design expertise. As a Staff Cybersecurity Engineer focused on Security Services, this role is responsible for assessing how users, devices, and services traverse complex network architectures and translating those findings into engineered zero trust patterns implemented through the appropriate identity-aware proxies and mesh VPN policies.

This senior individual contributor role combines strategic security architecture with hands-on engineering to deliver secure access services at scale. The engineer will own the design and implementation of secure access capabilities that offload complex identity and context-based access decisions from applications to a centralized Secure Access Services platform, covering both web and non-web applications such as APIs, databases, administrative tools, and legacy TCP workloads.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure access architectures across complex enterprise IT environments.
• Define and evolve the technical roadmap for Secure Access Services, including mesh VPN and identity-aware access patterns across web and non-web applications.
• Conduct deep analysis of user, device, and service network access paths across complex network environments, including routing, firewalls, macro- and micro-segmentation, proxies, DNS, and load balancers.
• Architect end-to-end zero trust access patterns that decouple applications from direct network trust and centralize policy enforcement in Secure Access Services.
• Translate business, risk, and compliance requirements into reusable reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for secure access.
• Serve as the primary engineer for the solutions you architect, including design, configuration, scripting, integration, and operationalization of mesh VPN and identity-aware proxy capabilities.
• Implement secure access for a broad set of web and non-web applications, including internal and external web applications, APIs, databases, administrative tools, and legacy TCP workloads.
• Drive data governance and secure architecture practices by ensuring access patterns, controls, and supporting documentation align with security policies, standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with software development, infrastructure, identity, network, and product teams to integrate security considerations throughout the application and service lifecycle.
• Evaluate and recommend security tools, technologies, and processes that enhance the overall security posture and improve scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Conduct qualitative research and technical analysis to identify emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and innovative secure access solutions.
• Develop automation, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD integrations, and policy-as-code, to ensure consistent and repeatable deployment of secure access controls.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation related to security architectures, onboarding patterns, runbooks, configuration baselines, test plans, and operational procedures.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to other engineers on security best practices, architectural design, and secure access engineering patterns.
• Participate in incident response activities and provide expert guidance on secure access and security-related issues, including root cause analysis and durable remediation.
• Define, track, and own key metrics and performance indicators for secure access capabilities, including application coverage, control adoption, incident reduction, and onboarding efficiency.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, network security, security architecture, or security engineering roles, with a strong focus on secure access and zero trust design.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and engineering zero trust security architectures and secure access patterns within large, complex hybrid network environments.
• Expert-level proficiency in modern information security and complex network architectures, including zero trust architecture, identity and access management, secure remote access, VPN and mesh VPN solutions, and web and non-web application access patterns.
• Strong expertise in network and connectivity architectures, including routing, firewalls, macro- and micro-segmentation, proxies, DNS, and load balancers.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex network and access patterns and translate them into robust, scalable, and supportable secure access designs.
• Experience securing development and enterprise environments and integrating security throughout the software development and service lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT, networking, cloud platforms, information architecture, and relevant security disciplines, theories, and techniques.
• Demonstrated experience conducting qualitative research and technical analysis related to cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities, and solution design.
• Track record of independently leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business and risk reduction outcomes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, network security, security architecture, or security engineering roles, with a strong focus on secure access and zero trust design.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, SABSA, CCSP, or advanced networking certifications are a plus.
• Mater's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

       • The salary range for this role is $160,200-$246,300. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

       • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits:

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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