VP, Staff Perimeter Defense Engineer

Job description

Role Summary/Purpose: Synchrony is seeking a Technical Staff Security Engineer to lead the design, engineering, and rollout of next-generation Perimeter Defense capabilities across a large-scale enterprise environment – supporting a major migration to AWS and Azure. This person is responsible for the full lifecycle of delivering new security capabilities: translating security and network architecture requirements into engineered solutions, automating deployments through infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, validating controls, and operationalizing them with documentation, monitoring, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is a hands-on security engineer with deep cloud and network security expertise , strong automation skills (Terraform, Python, APIs), and practical experience with perimeter technologies such as Palo Alto firewalls, Zscaler proxy, IDS/IPS, and DDoS mitigation. You will collaborate closely with Cloud Security, Network Engineering, and Security Architecture teams, act as a technical leader/mentor, and drive secure-by-design outcomes that enable business velocity while strengthening enterprise resilience. Essential Responsibilities: Lead network security efforts...