Sr Principal Network & Security

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Summary

The Senior Principal Network Security Engineer is the highest-level individual contributor responsible for leading the design, engineering, and delivery of complex, multi-team network security initiatives. This role owns end-to-end technical execution for enterprise perimeter, internal segmentation, and application delivery controls, with deep hands-on expertise in Check Point firewalls and F5 load balancers. The engineer serves as a technical authority, driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring operational resiliency through automation, rigorous troubleshooting, and incident mitigation.

Primary Technology Focus

• Designing, Securing and building scalable, resilient enterprise-wide network

• Define and monitor - network security standards / Controls across on prem, hybrid and Private cloud networks through new generation firewalls / IDS/IPS, Micro segmentation and VPN’s

• Monitor and mitigate the network and security incidents across global events on prem, hybrid and private networks

• Ensure Audit and regulatory compliance requirements are implemented across network segmentations, firewalls, VPN’s and at perimeter security devices