Senior Security Platform Engineer & Operations Lead

Koitecc Solutions; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k and pension

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Discretionary bonus program

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Lead, Security Engineer to deliver and operate enterprise security platforms across our technology stack. This role blends hands-on platform delivery with technical ownership, spanning architecture discussions, implementation planning, operational support and deep troubleshooting alongside risk and audit stakeholders.

The role focuses on security platform engineering across domains, with strong emphasis on governance, incident prevention, and regulatory

Qualifications

• Senior Lead level with hands-on enterprise security platform engineering experience.
• Experience with SSE/SASE, ZTNA, secure web gateway, CASB, cloud access protection.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to security platform engineering decisions and governance.
• Design, engineer and operate security tools across multiple domains (zero-trust, SASE/SSE, network, vulnerability management).
• Develop metrics to measure assurance, compliance and tool health.
• Support audits and regulatory exams with evidence quality and traceability.
• Author runbooks and executive-ready documentation.

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Lead, Security Engineer to deliver and operate enterprise security platforms across our technology stack. This role blends hands-on platform delivery with technical ownership, spanning architecture discussions, implementation planning, operational support and deep troubleshooting alongside risk and audit stakeholders.

The role focuses on security platform engineering across domains, with strong emphasis on governance, incident prevention, and regulatory