Distinguished Network Security Engineer

When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife. What you’ll be doing... The Global Network & Technology team seeks highly motivated Distinguished Network Security Engineer to secure and harden Verizon's Telemetry networks. This role requires candidates to translate high-level security frameworks into concrete configurations for telemetry devices focusing on security implementation beyond a standard firewall scope. The role requires expertise in network protocols, hands-on experience with routers/switches, SIEM tools (especially SPLUNK and ISE), and a strong focus on automation, threat detection, incident response, and continuous security validation across the organization. The Principal Engineer will specifically set strategic direction and define architectural patterns for long-term resilience. Key Responsibilities Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge network security solutions to address technology gaps. Act as the security subject matter expert in network design reviews, ensuring that all network assets meet stringent carrier-grade security standards and embed secure design patterns. Proactively search for signs of lateral movement, exfiltration, and persistence within the environment using the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a guide. Create AI Agentic workflows to discover Indicators of Compromise Analyze network logs and configurations to identify vulnerabilities, recommend & build proactive mitigations. Drive continuous improvement of network visibility and telemetry collection, conduct proactive threat hunting, and serve as escalation support for network security incidents. Execute root cause analysis for incidents, perform regular security control assessments, and lead strategic security solution implementation in a highly scalable environment. Design, develop, and refine high-fidelity detection logic to identify adversarial behavior across the network. Develop essential technical documentation including Playbooks, Confluence pages, Network diagrams, and Method of Procedures (MOPs). Drive security architecture, lead policy implementation, manage incident response and integrate security principles early into the development lifecycle. Leverage tools or custom automation, eg: Python, Ansible playbooks to run automated audits against security benchmarks, ensuring zero configuration drift. Develop comprehensive assessment reports and provide prioritized recommendations for remediations. Identifying opportunities to mentor, guide, and delegate technical documentation/tasks to support the team and broader organization 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 in one of the offices listed for this position or other valid Verizon locations. In order to be eligible to apply for this position, you must be within commuting distance of one of those locations. What we’re looking for... You'll need to have: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or 8 -10+ years of equivalent relevant work or military experience. Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training. Expert-level experience in securing/hardening networks in multi-vendor environments (Cisco IOS-XR/XE, Palo Alto, F5, Arista). Proven ability to leverage TCP/IP internals, DNS security, and flow-based analysis (NetFlow/IPFIX) to baseline network behavior and intercept sophisticated lateral movement. Strong practical experience with Splunk/SIEM tools is necessary for data analysis, dashboard creation, alerting, automation, risk-based alerting, managing notable events, and defining/tuning correlation searches. Familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions is also beneficial. Experience developing AI-driven agentic tools to automate security workflows and detection engineering. Demonstrated leadership skills are required, along with the ability to lead and manage cross-functional projects, build consensus, resolve conflict, negotiate, an