Senior Network Engineer – Application Delivery & Edge Services
About The Position
Northern Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to support the engineering, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise application delivery and edge infrastructure. The role focuses on secure, reliable, high-performing access to business applications through content delivery networks (CDNs), load balancing, DNS, reverse proxies, web application firewalls (WAFs), and related edge services. The engineer will support the Akamai platform and may develop specialized expertise in Akamai and enterprise edge technologies; prior Akamai experience is preferred but not required. The position works across network, application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot incidents, improve service delivery, maintain operational resilience, and develop platform capabilities. Northern Trust describes its work culture as flexible and collaborative, and offers a comprehensive benefits package and a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in network engineering, infrastructure engineering, application delivery, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, routing, and network troubleshooting.
- Practical experience with HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, certificates, and web application connectivity.
- Experience supporting load balancers, reverse proxies, application delivery controllers, or related technologies.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex network and application connectivity issues across multiple technology layers.
- Familiarity with network monitoring, traffic analysis, packet captures, and diagnostic tools.
- Experience working in enterprise environments with formal change management and operational support processes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, or comparable CDN and application delivery solutions.
- Familiarity with web application firewalls, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, or API security technologies.
- Experience with CDN caching, traffic routing, global server load balancing, or DNS-based traffic management.
- Knowledge of automation tools, scripting languages, or API integrations such as Python, Terraform, or REST APIs.
- Experience supporting high-availability or geographically distributed application infrastructure.
- Familiarity with cloud networking environments such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
- Relevant technical certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, or comparable infrastructure certifications.
- Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize enterprise application delivery and edge services.
- Support administration and ongoing development of the Akamai platform, including CDN, traffic management, and web application security services.
- Manage and troubleshoot DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS certificates, reverse proxies, caching, and load-balancing configurations.
- Support onboarding and integration of applications with enterprise edge infrastructure.
- Analyze application traffic, connectivity, and performance to identify and resolve service delivery issues.
- Assist with configuring and tuning WAF policies, bot protection, and DDoS mitigation services.
- Investigate and resolve complex networking and application delivery incidents across distributed infrastructure.
- Partner with network, application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to diagnose and resolve service disruptions.
- Support platform availability, capacity planning, monitoring, and operational resilience.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, change management, and problem management processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and platform configuration standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve application performance, service availability, and operational efficiency.
- Assist with resiliency planning, failover design, and recovery testing for critical application delivery services.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to engineering recommendations and platform improvements.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement and maintain appropriate protective controls within the application delivery environment.
Benefits
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and pension.
- Health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, and disability coverage.
- Paid time off.
- Parental and caregiver leave.
- Life and accident insurance.
- Other voluntary and well-being benefits.
- Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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