Senior DLP Engineer Data Protection & Insider Risk (Hybrid)

Wintrust Financial Corporation; Rosemont (IL); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible Spending Account

Job summary

Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, IL is seeking a Senior Data Loss Prevention Engineer to implement and maintain enterprise data protection across Microsoft Purview, Proofpoint, and CrowdStrike. You will collaborate with the Insider Risk team to improve detection, investigations, and policy enforcement.

The role requires 3+ years of hands-on DLP experience within financial services or regulated environments, strong automation skills, and a proactive approach to data governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent plus 3+ years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, compliance technology, or IT infrastructure.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting DLP, data protection, information protection, insider risk, or security monitoring technologies.
• Experience administering one or more of the following preferred: Microsoft Purview DLP, Proofpoint DLP, CrowdStrike Data Protection/Insider Risk capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain DLP policies across Microsoft Purview, Proofpoint, CrowdStrike, email, endpoint, cloud, and collaboration platforms.
• Configure and tune DLP detections using sensitive information types, dictionaries, classifiers, regex, EDMs, IDMs, and contextual conditions.
• Perform policy testing, validation, deployment, and change management activities.
• Review and analyze DLP alerts to identify potential policy violations, data exposure events, and insider risk indicators.
• Support Insider Risk investigations by providing technical analysis related to data movement, exfiltration attempts, and policy violations.
• Develop scripts and automation to improve DLP administration, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Support integration efforts between DLP tools and security platforms such as ServiceNow, SIEM, and case management systems.

Skills

DLP concepts

Microsoft Purview

Proofpoint

CrowdStrike

Data classification

Data labeling

Information governance

SIEM

Automation scripting

Security investigations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Purview DLP

Proofpoint DLP

CrowdStrike

Job description

Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, IL is seeking a Senior Data Loss Prevention Engineer to implement and maintain enterprise data protection across Microsoft Purview, Proofpoint, and CrowdStrike. You will collaborate with the Insider Risk team to improve detection, investigations, and policy enforcement.

The role requires 3+ years of hands-on DLP experience within financial services or regulated environments, strong automation skills, and a proactive approach to data governance.