Title: Network Security Engineer CCIE Certified Location: Austin United States ID 00068539721 - Location Austin, TX - 815 Brazos St / United States - Job category IT Infrastructure - Work model Work from Office Job Description: Cognizant is seeking a Network Security Engineer for a full-time remote opportunity. About Cognizant's CIS Practice: Cognizant's CIS (Cognizant Infrastructure Services) Practice is a global leader in providing IT infrastructure services. We deliver innovative solutions to optimize and transform IT infrastructure, ensuring business agility and operational efficiency. Our services include cloud computing, data center management, network services, and cybersecurity. We focus on understanding client needs and delivering customized solutions to drive business success. In this role, you will: - Engineer and maintain site-to-site and remote access VPN solutions (IPsec, SSL/TLS, DMVPN. Troubleshoot VPN client connectivity issues across multiple platforms (Windows, macOS, mobile). - Support firewall and security policy configuration tied to VPN services. - Perform root cause analysis on tunnel failures, latency, and authentication issues. - Collaborate with internal teams on access and security architecture. Qualifications: - CCIE Security (certified, not written-only). - 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise VPN technologies. - Strong knowledge of IPsec, IKEv2, SSL VPN, and related protocols. - Experience troubleshooting VPN clients (AnyConnect, GlobalProtect, or equivalent) - Solid understanding of PKI, certificate-based authentication, and MFA integration. - Familiarity with firewall platforms (ASA, Palo Alto, Fortinet). - Experience in large-scale enterprise or service provider environments. - Exposure to Zero Trust / ZTNA frameworks. At Cognizant, we are eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways! We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferable experience and skills make you an outstanding applicant and help us see how you would be helpful in this role. Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in United States without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position. The salary range for this role is between $99,000 and $116,000 will be determined by the skills and experience level of the candidate.

• Design, develop, implement and maintain solutions to protect and monitor the network from threats (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, NAC, etc). • Analyze network traffic to identify anomalies and threats. • Participate in projects to improve network security architecture and posture. • Audit and review network security systems/tools configurations to ensure compliance with security standards. • Integrate network security tools with internal systems and workflows for further handling and response. • Create automation tools for event analysis and operational efficiency. • Support network segmentation policies and enforce security requirements.

Role Description We’re looking for a Junior Security Operations Engineer who is AI-Forward to help scale and modernize our SecOps program. This is a hands-on, builder role for someone who will design and ship the security tooling that powers our triage, investigations, and response workflows. You’ll report to the Technical Operations Director and work alongside our GRC lead to improve our: - Vulnerability intake - Threat response - Darkweb posture - Internal security tooling A core part of this role is building AI-assisted security tooling: - Triage agents that pre-classify bug bounty reports - Investigation copilots that pull context from logs and SIEM data - Response workflows that draft remediation steps and track them to closure You’ll spend as much time wiring up that tooling as you will reproducing vulnerabilities and working incidents. This role suits someone who thrives in a lean, high-impact environment, has strong opinions on where humans add value versus where tooling should take over, and wants to shape how a modern security team operates. Qualifications - Previous experience in a SecOps, Security Analyst, or Threat Response role - Proven ability to understand and reproduce technical vulnerabilities - Experience with bug bounty triage (HackerOne, Bugcrowd, or similar) - Hands-on exposure to SIEM, EDR, and DLP tools in production environments - A genuine, demonstrated interest in applying AI/LLMs to security work - Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or similar - Comfort working autonomously across time zones and asynchronously - Strong written communication skills Requirements - Triage & Vulnerability Management - Review incoming vulnerability reports from our bug bounty intake; reproduce and document valid issues for engineering teams - Build the tooling that improves signal-to-noise: automate duplicate detection, spam filtering, and abuse flagging - Act on DAST findings: coordinate remediation, verify fixes, and re-test - Track remediation timelines for critical vulnerabilities and keep stakeholders honest on SLAs - Threat Response & Monitoring - Monitor and respond to EDR and cloud security alerts; investigate, contain, and document - Analyze darkweb findings and credential exposures; shape our darkweb monitoring practices and tooling over time - Improve detection coverage: tune noisy rules, close gaps, and enrich alerts with context - Help configure and tune DLP, SIEM, and AI security tooling - Security Tooling (core to this role) - Build AI-assisted triage tooling that pre-classifies bug bounty reports - Build investigation tooling: LLM-backed copilots and Slack bots - Build response tooling: workflows that draft remediation steps and track issues to closure - Evaluate emerging AI security tooling and bring what’s genuinely useful into the stack - Apply a security-minded lens to our own AI usage - Compliance & Cross-Functional - Support audit evidence collection for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS - Partner with ITOps to verify patches, endpoint coverage, and access hygiene Benefits - Full-time contract - Remote-first and async-friendly - Potential to extend or convert based on fit - Reports to the Technical Operations Director; works closely with the GRC lead and IT Operations How We Work We’re a lean, high-trust team. We value people who ship, who can operate independently, and who treat security as an engineering problem rather than a checklist. If you’re someone who sees a repetitive task and immediately thinks “this should be a script, or better yet, an agent,” you’ll fit in here. To Apply Tell us about a time you used AI, automation, or custom tooling to meaningfully change how a security workflow ran. What was manual before, what it looked like after, and what you learned. Links to code, writeups, or demos are welcome.

• You'll own Prolific's application security strategy and be the most senior security engineering voice in the organisation. • Define and drive our Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC). • Set the standard for how security is embedded into engineering. • Get hands-on with code review, threat modelling, and security testing when it matters. • Manage our Senior Application Security Engineer and continue to own our compliance programme alongside these responsibilities. • Act as the go-to expert for application security, partnering with engineering leadership to balance risk and velocity. • Build the tooling, processes, and culture needed to embed security into how we ship.