Associate, Security Arch

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.

Duties

• Setting up Encryption using Technologies such as Voltage, Secupi, Microsoft Purview 
• Understanding Key Management framework and best practices around Bring Your Own Key and Hold Your Own Key. 
• Setting up DLP Policies in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (CASB) , Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Purview 
• Assisting the Implementation of Data Loss Prevention and guide on unit testing, and support documentation; 
• Determining operational feasibility by evaluating, analyzing, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposing solutions. 
• Collaborating with Enterprise Architecture organization as needed.  
• document processes or procedures, and recommends where improvements can be implemented  
• Serve as a security ambassador, raising data protection awareness across the organization, evangelizing data protection best practices, and helping make Northern Trust a security forward organization

• Provides reports on the effectiveness of the business unit’s internal control structure along with recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and economic value of a control or a process

• Assessing audit findings/gaps including control weaknesses with an appropriate degree of professional skepticism, seeking to fully understand risks to Northern Trust, and assist technology partners with the development of remediation plans to mitigate weaknesses, providing thought leadership on the appropriateness of the plan

• Assessing baseline configurations of system/infrastructure components and their technical controls, work with security engineers to recommend security controls to system owners to mitigate identified security weaknesses, establish remediation plans, and monitor for effective implementation

• Assessing vulnerabilities using a risk based approach, working with system owners to establish remediation plans, and monitoring for effective implementation

• Analyzing trends and changes in the threat environment with respect to organizational risk; developing and executing plans to address identified risks

Knowledge/Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in technology related field, or equivalent work experience

• Demonstrable knowledge of information security best practices
• Excellent teammate skills, effectiveness both in independent and collaborative work. 
• Ability to learn and use new technologies. 
• Background in networking, data security and cloud-based applications. 
• Experience with distributed computing platforms for high-scale systems. 
• Experience with Azure services and eco-system. 
• Experience with Microsoft and Linux-based environments. 
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools. 

Experience Required

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience working in an information security monitoring & response role in a large, complex environment.

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

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.