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Principal Network Security Engineer

Cyber Security Courses, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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Overview About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Title Title: Principal Network Security Engineer

Description of role and key responsibilities Reporting to the Director of Network Application Engineering, the Principal Network Security Engineer is seen as a technical expert in networking security.

This is a technical, team lead, and hands on role, with a primary focus on design and implementation of network security change; although you will be expected to support the network security operations team with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.

You will have experience of working in a high impact, mission critical environments, where service matters, and exceeding expectations is the norm. You have 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 activity

Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project)

Ensuring the 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 the 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 first-hand 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:

You will have expert knowledge and experience in several of the following areas:

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

It is 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

Ansible, Terraform

Azure and AWS native firewall and load balancing

Technical Certification It is desirable and advantageous to have the following certification or demonstrable working experience:

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

Salary Salary Range:

$137,400 - 233,600 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation Northern Trust is 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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. 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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