Sr. Network Architect – Transformation

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Title – Sr. Network Architect – Transformation

Description

The Sr. Network Architect-Transformation will be the subject matter expert for architecting, implementing, testing, and troubleshooting Northern Trust’s global network and network security solutions. The position also requires the ability to lead and mentor team members in the design, support, and engineering of the network while working with operations teams to improve system availability and efficiencies. This position will help define the future state of network services to support the transformation of the NT network and services.

The Network Architect will proactively research and evaluate tools and technologies, as appropriate, to the network environment, while developing solutions to increase performance, availability and lower the total cost of ownership. The individual in this role is expected to keep abreast of industry trends, technology innovation, and changing customer requirements to provide effective solutions mapped to business outcomes.

The Network Architect will translate logical designs into physical designs, taking into account of requirements, target environments, processes, performance requirements, existing systems and services, and non-functional requirements such as capacity, availability and performance. The Network Architect provides technical design guidance and leadership to engineering teams and acts as the ultimate escalation point for network issues. The Network Architect functions as the technical escalation point of contact for the infrastructure teams, application development teams, and leadership.

This role will provide trouble resolution of the global network for escalated issues and may perform on-call duties and off-hours support when needed.

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or equivalent of a 4-year accredited degree in a technical discipline.

• 15+ years of experience with managing, designing solutions within an IP network with a 4-year Bachelor of Science degree or 20+ years relevant experience with IP networks CCIE certification in either Routing and Switching or Data Center technology
• 15+ years of experience with routing protocols including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Protocol independent-sparse mode, PIM-Dense Mode, MP-BGP and EVPN preferred. Experience with SD WAN.
• 15+ years of experience with Layer 2 protocols (VPC, Datacenter Zones, Spanning tree, VRF, VTP, VLANs, physical cabling)
• 15+ years of experience with WAN/LAN and transport technologies (Ethernet, MPLS, DWDM, etc).
• 10+ years of working knowledge security technologies including IPSec,IKE v1 and IKE v2, Kerberos, SSH, RADIUS,TACACS+, VPDN’s, PKI , AAA , VPN Using IPSec, etc. Strong technical knowledge of network control protocols (QOS, PfR, PoE, NTP, DHCP), network management protocols (CDP, FTP, TFTP, SNMP) and security protocols (SSH, HTTPS, AAA, IPSec, TrustSec). Extensive experience with Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switching platforms as well as Juniper MX routers, and Aruba switches.

In depth implementation and troubleshooting experience of IP networks and the ability to think critically in high pressure, confidential environments.

You will have expert knowledge and experience in several of the following areas: 

• Workflow automation
• Cisco Routing & Switching
• WAN Optimization
• DNS, IPAM and DHCP
• SDWAN solutions
• Network Monitoring and reporting tools

It is desirable and advantageous to also have knowledge and experience of the following technology platforms: 

• Public and Private cloud security tools and services
• Check Point, Fortinet, Tufin
• Forescout, Cisco ISE
• F5, Netscaler
• Infoblox
• Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk
• AWS, Azure
• Illumio
• BlueCoat, Zscaler

Ability to think proactively and solve problems independently. Ability to provide 24×7 support and work out of normal business hours (evenings/weekends) as needed. 

Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills with the ability to work well in a collaborative environment. Strong relationship building skills conducive to team development Demonstrated strong listening and collaboration skills for uncovering technology trends and evolving disruptions. Experience leading and collaborating with global technical teams across many regions Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly and accurately ascertain risks and form responses.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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