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The camaraderie we share emanates from Lunch & Learn sessions where we explore new ideas together, fun group activities ranging from escape rooms to miniature golf, and much, much more. If we've described you and your dream workplace, please apply and share in the many benefits and opportunities we offer.\n\nZero Trust Cybersecurity Engineer\nJob description:\nElectrosoft Inc. is seeking motivated Zero Trust (ZT) Cyber Security Engineers to immediately contribute to our customer's ZT initiatives. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the customer to assess and document the current state of on-premises and cloud-based network enclaves and applications, identify gaps in ZT implementation, and develop/execute migration plans that leverage the full benefits of ZT. These efforts will directly support achieving both the 2027 and 2032 target objectives for baseline and advanced ZT. In this role, you'll become a subject matter expert in one of the DoW CIO seven pillars of ZT, guiding the team towards solutions that prioritize mission success and the protection of data, systems, and personnel.\nDuties & Responsibilities:\nPerform Zero Trust security readiness assessments (e.g. gap analyses, maturity assessments and strategic vectoring)\nDevelop Zero Trust implementation plans/roadmaps to achieve zero trust security and automation benefits and associated milestones\nResearch Zero Trust security solutions providing details on expected benefits, integration considerations and comparison to like technologies\nProvide recommendations on zero trust policy, governance, processes, workflows, and expected organizational change and associated milestones\nWork to infuse and standardize Zero Trust design principles across all pillars in a Zero Trust model (e.g. Users, Devices, Networks, Applications, Data, etc.)\nUnderstand end-to-end Zero Trust architecture technologies and concepts, such as SD-WAN, SASE, edge computing, cloud technologies, enterprise identity, microservices, containers, encryption, tokenization, AI, ML, SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, threat modeling, SDP, etc.\nCoordinate with appropriate organizational stakeholders to tailor Zero Trust requirements and coordinate communications, plans and implementation within their network/application environment(s).\nDevelop innovative approaches and create efficiencies to our existing practices\nWork across government and industry to evaluate and shape policy around Zero Trust and related topics\nBe well-informed of federal and commercial best practices, implementations, and solutions to infuse into our client environments\nArticulate security concerns and risks related to currently implemented or planned solutions and develop remediation or mitigation plans\nMap government/customer requirements and security control frameworks (e.g. NIST, RMF, DISA, OMB, etc.) to designed technical controls\nAssist in the 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