Security Infrastructure Engineer
Company: Verizon
Location: Irving, TX
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-29
About this role
### 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 Network Security Adversary Emulation (NSAE) Purple team is responsible for proactive detection testing and emulation of threat actor activity within the Verizon network. To perform this task we have a number of systems in a Cyber Range. We also support the systems for the NSAE Penetration Test and Red Teams.
As a member of NSAE some of your key responsibilities will be:
- System administration for virtual and dedicated hardware systems.
- Ensuring system and software compliance with Verizon security policies.
- Hardware and system installation.
- System upgrades and patches.
- Maintaining system documentation.
- Assisting NSAE members with system issues.
- Installing/updating/removing software and packages.
- System and software configuration.
- Monitoring system and software logs.
- Automation of tools for testing and system administration.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to develop and implement custom tools and scripts, possess an understanding of operating system security, networking protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, scripting and programming. Additionally, the candidate needs to have the ability to communicate highly technical information to align with Verizon objectives.
### What we’re looking for...
### You’ll need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree ...