Axos
Sr. Network Security Engineer
HQ - San Diego, CA, USA · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 24 days ago
DevOpsMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityNetwork SecuritySOC OperationsIncident ResponseComplianceTCP/IPDNSFirewallVPNCiscoZero TrustCommunication
About the role
- Axos Bank Target Range: $150,000.00 /Yr. - $180,000.00 /Yr.
- Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.
- About This Job This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day engineering, configuration, and optimization of ZTNA and microsegmentation across environments.
- Drive enterprise-wide ZTNA adoption, partnering with infrastructure, application, and DevOps teams to onboard users and services.
- Build and maintain segmentation maps, traffic flow baselines, and policy rule sets aligned to business-critical applications and regulatory boundaries.
- Support and troubleshoot network access issues related to ZTNA policy enforcement, split tunneling, and identity-aware access controls.
- Learn to design, build, and manage AI agents (using platforms such as Kindo.ai, n8n, and Claude/Anthropic APIs) that automate routine network security operations including policy reviews, firewall rule audits, segmentation gap analysis, and anomaly triage.
- Document architectures, standard operating procedures, and AI agent configurations to a standard that enables knowledge transfer and auditability.
- You will create AI agents that do repetitive work so you can focus on architecture, strategy, and complex problem-solving.
- Hands-on experience building or managing AI agents, LLM-based workflows, or security automation pipelines.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience in network security engineering, with hands-on work in firewall management, network segmentation, VPN/ZTNA, and intrusion detection/prevention.
- Demonstrated experience with micro segmentation platforms and ZTNA.
- Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, routing/switching, proxy architectures, and cloud networking.
- Familiarity or strong willingness to learn AI/ML concepts, prompt engineering, and agentic automation frameworks.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and executive audiences.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Experience in financial services, banking, or other heavily regulated environments (FFIEC, SOX, PCI-DSS).
- Build AI-assisted runbooks that enable autonomous or semi-autonomous handling of common network security events, escalating only when human judgment is required.
Nice to have
- This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
- This is not a traditional network security role.
- The ideal candidate is a network security practitioner who is excited about leveraging large language models, agentic AI frameworks, and automation platforms to fundamentally change how security work gets done.
- At Axos, our CISO organization is pioneering an AI-native security operations model.
- You will be expected to think like a builder, not just an operator.
Skills
- $150,000.00 /Yr. - $180,000.00 /Yr.
Compensation
- These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks' Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year)
- HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan
Company info
- Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- We are seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to join our Zero Trust team and serve as a hands-on technical owner of our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and micro segmentation platforms.
Equal opportunity
- Job Functions and Work Environment:
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time.
- Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse, calculator, telephone, copiers, etc.
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position.
Visa & Work Authorization
- About This Job This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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