Zscaler Cyber Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Deep technical expertise in Zscaler ZIA and ZPA, with CASB desirable
• Deep technical expertise in identity integration, including Entra ID, SSO, SCIM, and Conditional Access
• Deep technical expertise in Azure IaaS and networking, including VPN Gateway, routing, and connectivity design
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise networking, including routing, switching, and firewalls
• Strong working knowledge of security operations, logging, and SIEM integration
• Proven experience leading engineering teams across infrastructure, network, or security transformations
• Strong data handling capability, including advanced Excel for engineering control and analysis
• Ability to operate effectively within ambiguous, evolving technical environments

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Infrastructure and Network Engineering teams, guiding them in resolving technical issues and design challenges
• Provide subject matter expertise across Zscaler ZIA, ZPA, CASB, and Azure
• Review relevant Zscaler designs and act as the escalation point for technical migration challenges
• Work with the project manager to plan and oversee execution of the proxy migration workstream across on-premises and Azure estates
• Manage migration waves, cutover activities, and rollback planning
• Ensure minimal service disruption and alignment with security standards
• Coordinate interdependencies with infrastructure, application, and network teams
• Own and govern the core engineering dataset supporting migration
• Develop and maintain technical artefacts and engineering controls to support engineering decision-making
• Provide technical assurance and reporting into the project manager
• Identify and manage technical risks, issues, and constraints
• Ensure consistency and quality across project engineering outputs
• Deliver technical server migration control datasets
• Maintain and validate migration datasets
• Produce technical progress reporting covering status, risks, issues, and dependencies
• Support successful migration of in-scope services to ZIA
• Carry out post-migration validation and issue resolution

Technologies

• Azure
• Excel
• IaaS
• Support
• Network
• Project Manager
• Security
• VPN
• Web
• Cloud
• DevOps

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We are recruiting a Zscaler Engineer to join our Cyber team on a 6-month contract basis. The role is based in Preston with ad hoc travel to site and is mainly remote. This is an inside IR35 day-rate contract supporting a structured delivery environment, where we are migrating web proxy services from a legacy Trend solution to Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and need strong technical leadership, coordination, and delivery support.

last updated 27 week of 2026