Senior Lead, Security Engineering and Operations
Northern Trust7 days ago
Limerick, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, engineer, coordinate, and operate enterprise security platforms across zero-trust, SASE/SSE, network security, vulnerability management, AI guardrails, and SaaS security.
- Deliver and operate IPS, next-generation firewalls, vulnerability scanning and unified vulnerability management platforms, secure web gateways, CASB, cloud access protection, SaaS monitoring, remote access, traffic inspection, browser isolation, and AI gateway controls.
- Support platform health, upgrades, capacity, resilience, lifecycle management, and vendor escalations.
- Define metrics for coverage, control effectiveness, SLA adherence, tool health, control performance, and risk reduction.
- Integrate security platforms with ServiceNow, SIEM platforms, and enterprise reporting workflows.
- Support audits and regulatory examinations through traceable, repeatable, evidence-quality controls.
- Author operational runbooks and executive-ready technical documentation.
- Evaluate new capabilities, proofs of concept, and tool rationalization opportunities.
Requirements
- Typically 12+ years of experience in information technology, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, network security, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience supporting enterprise-scale security platforms and making technical tradeoffs across security, reliability, usability, and compliance.
- Deep hands-on experience with at least one SSE/SASE platform, including ZTNA, secure web gateway policy, segmentation, connector architecture, and operating model design.
- Working knowledge of IPS and next-generation firewall platforms, including signature tuning.
- Strong networking fundamentals covering TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS/PKI, proxies, IPsec/GRE tunneling, and segmentation.
- Experience with vulnerability management tooling, identity integration, SAML/OIDC, Entra ID, and conditional access.
- Scripting and API skills using Python, PowerShell, and REST/JSON.
- Experience integrating security tools with ServiceNow, SIEM platforms, and enterprise reporting workflows.
- Strong communication, documentation, audit-support, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
- Experience working in regulated environments with control evidence, operational resilience, risk acceptance, issue management, and audit or regulatory response expectations.
- Preferred experience includes AI/LLM security controls, AI gateways, prompt-injection defenses, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, ServiceNow Vulnerability Response or USEM, low-code automation, and Terraform/IaC.
Benefits
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with opportunities for internal movement and access to senior leaders.
- Northern Trust promotes an inclusive workplace and community philanthropy.
- Reasonable workplace accommodations are available for health conditions and disabilities.
- Applicants must already have the right to work in Ireland; employment permit sponsorship is not provided for this role.
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.