Senior Security Platform Engineer & Operations Lead

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp seeks a Senior Lead in Security Engineering and Operations to engineer and operate enterprise security platforms across the organization. You will own delivery, governance, and troubleshooting for secure, auditable security controls while partnering with engineering, risk, and audit teams.

You will drive cross-functional initiatives across SSE/SASE, zero-trust, vulnerability management, and cloud security, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and compliance in a

Qualifications

• 12+ years in IT/cybersecurity with enterprise-scale experience.
• Hands-on with SSE/SASE platforms, ZTNA and secure web gateway concepts.
• Experience with vulnerability management tooling and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer and operate security platforms spanning zero-trust, SASE/SSE, network and cloud security.
• Develop runbooks, metrics and governance for security controls and audits.
• Partner with engineering, risk, and audit to deliver secure, auditable platforms.

Skills

Security engineering

SSE/SASE

Zero Trust

Vulnerability management

Networking

Scripting

Cloud security

Audit/compliance

ServiceNow integration

Threat modeling

Tools

ServiceNow

SIEM

REST/JSON

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Northern Trust Corp seeks a Senior Lead in Security Engineering and Operations to engineer and operate enterprise security platforms across the organization. You will own delivery, governance, and troubleshooting for secure, auditable security controls while partnering with engineering, risk, and audit teams.

You will drive cross-functional initiatives across SSE/SASE, zero-trust, vulnerability management, and cloud security, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and compliance in a