Senior Security Platform Engineer & Operations Lead

001 The Northern Trust Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement benefits (401k)

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Life & accident insurance

Job summary

Northern Trust seeks a Senior Lead, Security Engineer to engineer and operationalize enterprise security platforms across the organization. This role combines hands-on delivery with technical ownership for auditable, scalable security capabilities and requires collaboration with engineering, infrastructure, risk, and audit stakeholders.

Responsibilities include designing and operating IPS/firewall, vulnerability management, AI guardrails, and secure cloud access tools, plus integrating with

Qualifications

• Typically 12+ years of experience in information technology, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, network security or platform engineering.
• Experience with SSE/SASE platforms including ZTNA, secure web gateway policy, segmentation, connector architecture and operating model design.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS/PKI, proxies, IPsec/GRE and segmentation.
• Experience with vulnerability management tooling and integration with enterprise workflows.

Responsibilities

• Contribute technical expertise to security platform engineering decisions and operational governance.
• Design, engineer and operate security tools spanning zero‑trust, SASE/SSE, network, vulnerability & exposure management, AI guardrails, and SaaS.
• Apply engineering patterns, implementation standards and runbooks for consistent adoption across units.
• Develop maturity models and metrics to measure assurance and compliance.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure and application teams on cross‑functional security initiatives.

Skills

SSE/SASE security

Zero-trust networking

IPS/Firewall

Vulnerability management

SAML/OIDC

Python

PowerShell

REST/JSON APIs

ServiceNow integration

SIEM integration

Audit/compliance support

Cloud security

Tools

ServiceNow

Terraform/IaC

Job description

Northern Trust seeks a Senior Lead, Security Engineer to engineer and operationalize enterprise security platforms across the organization. This role combines hands-on delivery with technical ownership for auditable, scalable security capabilities and requires collaboration with engineering, infrastructure, risk, and audit stakeholders.

Responsibilities include designing and operating IPS/firewall, vulnerability management, AI guardrails, and secure cloud access tools, plus integrating with