Senior Network Security Specialist

4 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Full time
About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a globally recognized financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. As a Fortune 500 company, we provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions.

We take pride in our commitment to service, expertise, and integrity, which has enabled us to build long-lasting relationships with our clients. With over 130 years of financial experience and a global presence, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role and Responsibilities

The Principal Network Security Engineer is a technical expert in networking security, reporting directly to the Director of Network Application Engineering. This is a technical, team lead, and hands-on role, with a primary focus on design and implementation of network security changes.

The successful candidate will have experience working in high-impact, mission-critical environments, where service matters, and exceeding expectations is the norm. They will lead critical projects, thrive in critical problem-solving, and enjoy leading a team working on projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Defining and documenting network security standards
  • Creation of low-level design documents to meet requirements outlined in the high-level design
  • Creation of detailed implementation plans for all engineering-related activities
  • Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (project)
  • Ensuring smooth transition/handover to operations in line with agreed operational acceptance process
  • Managing technical lifecycle management for all network & communications services
  • Supporting architecture in creation and upkeep of a delivery roadmap for network security
  • Supporting architecture in scoping activities required to produce the high-level design
  • Supporting architecture in undertaking proof of concept activities
  • Ensuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high level of support
  • Providing escalation support to operations with complex troubleshooting of major incidents as required
  • Provide on-call escalation support (rota basis) and work extended hours when required
Core Skills & Experience
  • A minimum 10+ years of hands-on experience of network security solutions within a global enterprise-scale organization (5,000-50,000 users) with both traditional datacenters and cloud
  • Considerable firsthand experience of design engineering and building resilient and scalable security solutions, ideally within finance or investment banking
  • Cybersecurity principles, global financial services business models, as well as regional compliance standards, relevant local regulations, and applicable laws
  • The concepts of risk and compliance and how to translate these into effective security solutions
  • Appreciation of automation and orchestration and will have experience of scripting against an API
  • Strong understanding of Layer 2, Layer 3 & Layer 4-7 network and security technologies
  • Familiar with a variety of testing tools, networking technologies, and techniques to accurately troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems associated with the service, application, and network hardware and software
Technical Skills & Experience
  • NGFW platforms and management tools such as Tufin
  • Network Access Control in enterprise environments
  • Application Delivery & Load balancers
  • Public and Private cloud security
  • Workflow automation
  • Routing and switching
  • WAN Optimization
  • DNS, IPAM, and DHCP
Desirable Skills & Experience
  • Check Point, Fortinet, Tufin
  • Forescout, Cisco ISE
  • F5, Netscaler
  • Infoblox
  • Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk
  • Azure log analytics
  • Akamai CDN
  • Illumio
  • Zscaler
  • Python
  • Ansible, Terraform
  • Azure and AWS native firewall and load balancing
Technical Certification
  • Check Point CSSE
  • CISSP
  • ITILv3 foundation or higher
  • Zscaler fundamentals certification, advanced preferred
  • F5
Personal Attributes
  • Highly organized and have proven ability to operate well under pressure, working to tight deadlines
  • Have good problem management and customer service skills
  • A positive attitude and be capable of remaining positive even when under immense pressure
  • Able to work with global teams to deliver projects, often at pace and under challenging circumstances
  • High professional standards, who never accepts the status quo; who challenges why things are done the way they are
  • Strong communicator, both written and verbal
  • Discourage hero culture and ensure the team always comes before the individual, although always ensuring for the welfare of staff at all times
  • Always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)
  • Work effectively as one IT community across the regions and the business
  • Embrace the philosophy and principles of group IT
  • Understand and apply Northern Trust's working practices, policies, and procedures
Working with Us

We're committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [insert email address].

We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.



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