at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
Role: 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:
The Principal Network Security Engineer's primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are defined standards in place, manage the technical lifecycle of products and services, lead a small of high performing engineers, deliver change/transformation against created designs; always ensuring a smooth transition/handover to Network Operations with adjunct supported to the Operations as needed.
- 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...
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