Senior Network Engineer, Application Delivery & Edge Services

Northern Trust

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILNaperville, IL
Salary
$114,500–$194,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $155k
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This role pays more than 50% of similar roles. Most pay $139,200–$202,561 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $155k versus about $171k for comparable roles.

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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

Northern Trust currently has 109 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,500–$194,700 across 78 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Network Engineer, Application Delivery & Edge Services

The Senior Network Engineer – Application Delivery & Edge Services joins the team to support the engineering, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise application delivery and edge infrastructure. This role involves configuring and optimizing content delivery networks, load balancing, DNS, reverse proxies, and web application firewalls. The engineer will manage TLS certificates, caching, and traffic management while troubleshooting complex networking incidents across distributed infrastructure. Key responsibilities include onboarding applications, tuning WAF policies, and performing root cause analysis. Required skills include TCP/IP networking, HTTP/HTTPS, and experience with load balancers or reverse proxies. Preferred expertise includes Akamai, Cloudflare, F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, Python, Terraform, and REST APIs. The role solves critical problems regarding secure, high-performing access to business applications within a regulated enterprise environment.

What does a Network Engineer earn?

Median $145000 from 135 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Engineer, configure, and optimize enterprise application delivery and edge services.
  • Administer the Akamai platform, including CDN, traffic management, and web security services.
  • Manage and troubleshoot DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS certificates, reverse proxies, and load balancing.
  • Analyze application traffic and connectivity to resolve service delivery issues.
  • Configure and tune WAF policies, bot protection, and DDoS mitigation services.
  • Investigate and resolve complex networking incidents across distributed infrastructure.
  • Perform capacity planning, monitoring, and resiliency testing for critical application delivery services.
  • Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and platform configuration standards.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in network engineering, infrastructure engineering, application delivery, or a related technical discipline.
  • 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.
  • Work Authorization.

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