Illumio Engineer

Salary: £130,000 - 143,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience implementing and administering Illumio Core in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust and micro-segmentation architectures.
• Experience supporting cloud migration programmes, particularly to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Knowledge of Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) and hybrid VMware environments.
• Strong networking expertise, including TCP/IP, routing and switching, firewalls and security policies, and application dependency mapping.
• Experience working with VMware technologies, including vSphere and virtualised workloads.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, security controls, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Excellent troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• We design, implement, and manage Illumio Core micro-segmentation solutions across on-premises and cloud-hosted environments.
• We develop and maintain segmentation policies supporting migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• We integrate Illumio controls within Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) environments.
• We analyse application dependencies and traffic flows to create effective segmentation strategies.
• We support workload migration activities while ensuring security policies remain consistent throughout transition phases.
• We collaborate with cloud, networking, and security teams to align segmentation with enterprise security standards.
• We troubleshoot and resolve Illumio policy, visibility, and connectivity issues.
• We produce technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational runbooks.
• We participate in security reviews, change management processes, and migration planning workshops.

Technologies

• Cloud
• GCP
• Support
• Security
• TCP/IP
• VMware
• DevOps

More

We are seeking an experienced Illumio Engineer for a 6-month contract to support a major cloud transformation programme. This remote role focuses on migrating enterprise workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and integrating Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), with responsibility for designing and optimising Illumio micro-segmentation policies across hybrid and cloud environments. You will work closely with cloud architects, infrastructure teams, security specialists, and migration engineers to help ensure secure workload migration while maintaining visibility, compliance, and zero-trust security principles.

last updated 25 week of 2026