Position Overview
Wintrust's Network Security is looking to hire a seasoned network security automation engineer to join our team. This role will focus on reducing manual network security configuration activities, configuration drift and ensuring security control effectiveness.
The Senior Network Security Automation Engineer is responsible for engineering secure and repeatable automation capabilities across enterprise network and security platforms.
What You’ll Do
Build reusable automation modules and engineering patterns for firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, VPN platforms, DNS, cloud networking, network segmentation, and secure connectivity services.
Automate network security controls, including firewall-policy deployment, segmentation validation, access-rule analysis, configuration compliance, egress filtering, and identification of overly permissive or unauthorized network paths.
Integrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines, incorporating code reviews, automated testing, security scanning, approval gates, version control, and rollback capabilities for network and security configuration changes with incumbent technologies.
Develop automated compliance and configuration-drift monitoring to compare deployed infrastructure against approved architecture, security baselines, policy requirements, and authoritative configuration repositories.
Design and develop network automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and orchestration frameworks to automate network provisioning, configuration, validation, and remediation.
Qualifications
7+ of experience in network engineering, network security, platform engineering, automation, or a related technical discipline
Advanced knowledge of enterprise routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, VPN, DNS, network segmentation, and hybrid connectivity.
Strong development experience with Python, PowerShell, or comparable automation languages.
Experience integrating network and security platforms through REST APIs, SDKs, webhooks, and event-driven workflows.
Experience integrating with ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or secrets-management platforms.
Benefits
Medical Insurance • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment • Short-term and long-term Disability Insurance • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount • Critical Illness Insurance • Accident Insurance • Transportation and Commuting Benefits • Banking Benefits • Pet Insurance
Compensation
The estimated salary range for this role is $117,000.00 - $158,000.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills and experience.
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