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Job Title: Cyber Security/ZScaler Engineer
Company Name: General Dynamics IT
Location: Rockville, MD
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 01/17/2026
Expire Date: 02/20/2026
Job Categories: Engineering, Information Technology
Job Description
Cyber Security/ZScaler Engineer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Sr. Cyber Security Analyst supporting our HHS HRSA customer onsite. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION


Responsibilities:

  • As a Sr. Cyber Security Analyst with hands-on ZScaler experience, you will work with the existing Cyber Security Team to provide guidance, installation, implementation and support of existing and new infrastructure.
  • Perform minor and major ruleset upgrades, as needed.
  • Ability to log into Firewalls and Routers/Switches to troubleshoot possible connectivity issues.
  • Develop and deliver stock and adhoc ZIA reporting, as requested.
  • Help with technical support in Change Management processes that directly impact production environment.
  • Document and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
  • Responding to requests and incidents within the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
  • Work with Program and Project management throughout the period of performance.
  • Attend team and customer meetings.
  • Provide training to the government, and their successors, on details of the administration, maintenance, support and operational use of the solution.
  • Participates in special projects, as needed.
  • Resolve technical problems that occur and on-call support for non-business hours.
  • Report daily at the customer location (this is an onsite position).
  • Provide Weekly and on-demand Status Reports on work performed.


Required Skills:

  • Associates degree in a related STEM field or equivalent experience and at least 3 years of Cyber Security experience.
  • Must have hands on experience with Zscaler
  • Ability to log into and assess Firewall Rules (Palo Alto), Security Groups (Azure) and ACLs (Cisco appliances)
  • 2+ years of experience in large-scale enterprise environment
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a MBI/T2 level clearance
  • Foundational networking and DNS skills
  • Experience with routing, network forwarding, and traffic inspection
  • ZIA, ZPA, ZDX configuration and policy setup
  • Familiarity with log forwarding protocols (Syslog, GRE/IPSec tunnels, etc.)
  • Comfortable with static IP configuration, NAT, and subnetting
  • Ability to work with private Service Edges, App Connectors, and ZTNA policies
  • Exposure to firewall policies, proxy chaining, and PAC file management
  • Application development from ZPA
  • Okta, CyberArk, Splunk integration
  • Troubleshooting connectivity and latency issues across distributed architectures
  • Working knowledge of SSL inspection, VPN integration, MFA, and identity providers
  • Familiar with ServiceNow (SNOW) for working on requests and incident tickets.

Desired Skills:

  • ZScaler or Security+ Certified
  • Experience with IPv6 networking protocol in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint and MS Teams.
  • Experience with MS Teams Planner, ServiceNow and/or JIRA
  • Experience with any HHS agencies or entities
  • Demonstrated strong technical skills and analytic abilities, as well as experience performing system security analysis and risk management.
  • Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks with minimal direction.
  • Demonstrated experience in translating an understanding of systems and applications into test plans and perform hands on testing.
  • Possesses experience with communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to stakeholders.
  • Possess a broad knowledge of ZScaler best practices, policies and guidance.

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Company Name: General Dynamics IT
Website:https://www.gdit.com/careers/job/e61096397/cyber-securityzscaler-engineer/?source=AutoAppend_HBCU
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