Network Security Architect

L.L.Bean • Freeport, ME

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

At L.L.Bean, we believe the outdoors brings out the best in all of us. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and creating safe, inclusive spaces where everyone feels welcome—both here and Outside. We value individual differences and are dedicated to maintaining an inclusive work environment where everyone can bring the best of their experience and talents and truly thrive. L.L.Bean is looking for an Network Security Architect to join our Infrastructure Architecture Team, someone that is passionate and has proven experience in networking and security disciplines. This position will be responsible for collaborating with other architects and engineers to deliver results-focused network architecture designs that support business objectives. We welcome the opportunity for this role to be hybrid based at the corporate headquarters in Freeport, Maine.

Requirements

• 4-Year Bachelors Degree
• 7+ years
• Business: Intermediate level of understanding business organization politics and culture Intermediate level of understanding of business model and ecosystem Challenges conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating, and invites stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities. Maintains balance between innovation and pragmatism when determining the practical application of new ideas. Sees opportunities and is open-minded. Fosters a nonjudgmental environment that stimulates creativity. Establishes a wide network of contacts across the organization to solicit information. Negotiates and agrees to responsibilities and accountabilities with stakeholders. Proactively manages responsibilities and accountabilities. Ability to identify dependencies and impacts across projects. Understand how Market and technology trends impacts business goals and provide insight to stakeholders. Understands and can articulate the key business issues and challenges facing the organization. Demonstrates leadership and direction around change initiatives. Uses the principles of change management to shape plans and projects.
• Behaviors: Demonstrates the ability to "think outside of the box" to shape ideas for future strategies- not simply extending what the organization does today. Consistently communicates a vision of the future and how to get there. Provides leadership, inspiration and guidance through influence and coaching. Consistently acts in the best interest of the stakeholder. Exhibits solid emotional intelligence skills, relates well to people, listens well and spends time really understanding stakeholders and their perspectives and needs. Actively solicits ideas and opinions from others to quickly accomplish specific objectives targeted at defined business outcomes. Shows respect for differences and diversity, and disagrees without personalizing issues. Handles multiple projects and duties simultaneously, prioritizing as needed. Devises flexible approaches that are easily adopted by all levels and types of people. Has clear and well developed coaching and mentoring skills; coaches and mentors a wide range of stakeholders from across the organization. Assesses risk, and applies risk management strategies to mitigate it. Looks for the most appropriate way to come to a decision. Involves the right stakeholders in the decision, and consults widely.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship for the network services team members. This position will be the subject matter expert for the network security domain. Partner with cybersecurity and business areas to ensure strong alignment in the delivery of network solutions leveraging a ‘security is built-in’ approach. Identify people, process, and technology gaps across the portfolio. Recommend and evaluate potential solutions. This will be a visible role and will require the ability to work at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic: Key contributor to the annual technology roadmap process identifying and budgeting for technology solutions over a 5-year horizon. Translate business requirements and architectural directions into program/project deliverables and establish architectural guardrails for projects. Responsible for defining technical sections of RFP, evaluating RFP responses, and searching for solutions that fit within our desired architecture. Must have experience in managing vendor relationships. Can develop multiple Enterprise Architecture viewpoints (such as Business, Technical, and pragmatic options)
• Technical: Expert in designing, implementing, supporting, and securing Cisco, Arista, and cloud networks (emphasis on Azure). Advanced understanding in all network routing and switching protocols and how they apply to secure network design Ability to effectively leverage the OSI model to communicate designs and impacts. Familiar with competing network & security vendor offerings. Expert with Palo Alto, Cisco, and Zscaler technologies. Ability to take strategic concepts such as Zero Trust Architecture and apply them tactically to projects and day-to-day work. Proven experience in Mirco-segmentation, OT, and IoT isolation. Experience with designing, supporting, and securing voice, load balancer, and wireless implementations. Strong technical documentation skills are required. Automation (IaC) focus. Disciplined in CI/CD as it applies to Net/SecOps. Working knowledge of compliance frameworks. PCI, NIST, etc.
• Operational: Provide a degree of hands-on support for the network team as needed. Comfortable being the highest escalation point for critical network security problems in a 24/7 environment. Participate in daily stand-up of calls for network related work streams. Must excel in a fast-paced environment while multi-tasking and can change focus quickly.
• Health and Safety Requirement: Every employee is responsible for contributing to a safe and healthy workplace. Employees are expected to be active participants in health and safety by following all safety policies and procedures, reporting unsafe conditions or at-risk behaviors to leadership, and conducting work in a safe manner. Those in a leadership role are also expected to model safe behaviors, evaluate risk, and ensure that risks are reduced to acceptable levels.

Benefits

• Our benefits package makes a good thing even better, with programs and perks designed to support your health and financial goals.
• Plus, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and re-charging outside are all part of the plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees