Cyber Security Engineer: Zero Trust Management Consultant

4 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Full time

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889.

We pride ourselves on providing innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by upholding our core principles of service, expertise, and integrity.

Job Title: Principal – Cyber Security Engineer: Zero Trust Management Consultant

Description of Role and Key Responsibilities:

The Zero Trust Management Consultant will serve as a Subject Matter Expert in Zero Trust networking security, consulting with application developers, network architects, and engineering teams to enhance the security of Northern Trust's and its clients' resources.

This role requires a high-impact, mission-critical environment where service matters, and exceeding expectations is the norm. The ideal candidate will have a history of success, thrive in critical problem-solving, and enjoy providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to teams working on critical projects.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Review and identify gaps in existing metadata accuracy related to Zero Trust initiatives.
  • Collaborate with data stewards to update or create processes to enhance metadata usability.
  • Develop Zero Trust frameworks and guidelines for architecture and engineering teams to leverage.
  • Assess existing network architecture to determine placement and configurations of existing controls, identify ways to circumvent existing controls, and recommend enhancements.
  • Suggest products or services to further information security objectives.
  • Provide training on Zero Trust concepts and best practices to application owners, Project Managers, Security Champions, and other IT Teams.
  • Participate in vendor Proof of Concepts to determine usability and interoperability with existing controls.

Core Skills & Experience:

  • A minimum 10+ years of experience in network security solutions consulting within a global enterprise-scale organization (5,000-50,000 users) with both traditional datacenters and Cloud.
  • Considerable first-hand experience in design engineering and building resilient and scalable security solutions, ideally within finance or investment banking.
  • Strong understanding of Layer 2, Layer 3 & Layer 4-7 network and security technologies, and how various solutions combine to provide a Zero Trust infrastructure.
  • 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 experience with scripting against an API.
  • Familiarity with a variety of testing tools, networking technologies, and techniques to enable an understanding of complex technical problems associated with the service, application, and network hardware and software.

Technical Skills & Experience:

The ideal candidate will have expert knowledge and experience in several of the following areas and how they contribute to a Zero Trust Network Security framework:

  • NGFW platforms and management tools
  • Network Access Control
  • Application Delivery & Load balancers
  • Public and Private cloud security
  • Workflow automation
  • Routing and switching
  • WAN Optimization
  • DNS, IPAM, and DHCP

Desirable and advantageous to also have knowledge and experience of the following technology platforms:

  • Check Point, Fortinet, Tufin
  • Forescout, Cisco ISE
  • F5, Netscaler
  • Infoblox
  • Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk
  • Azure log analytics
  • Akamai CDN
  • Illumio
  • Zscaler
  • Python, PowerShell
  • Ansible, Terraform
  • Azure and AWS native firewall and load balancing

Technical Certification:

Desirable and advantageous to have certification or demonstrable working experience with the following:

  • Check Point
  • Zscaler
  • F5
  • Illumio
  • CISSP
  • CCSK
  • ITILv3 foundation or higher
Personal Attributes:
  • Highly organized and able to operate well under pressure, working to tight deadlines.
  • Good problem management and customer service skills.
  • A positive attitude and ability to remain 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.
  • Discourages hero culture and ensures the team always comes before the individual, while ensuring the welfare of staff at all times.
  • Acts with integrity and embraces the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory).
  • Embraces the philosophy and principles of group IT.
  • Understands and applies Northern Trust's working practices, policies, and procedures.


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