It & cybersecurity jobs in Chicago, IL

About the role

Jones Lang LaSalle, an international commercial real estate firm, is seeking a skilled and motivated cloud network engineer with expertise in traditional networking, cloud networking technologies, and modern segmentation platforms such as Illumio and Guardicore. The successful candidate will oversee the delivery of network architecture and implementations to our clients, ensuring exceptional quality and customer satisfaction. This role includes responsibility for firewall and network security engineering, micro-segmentation design and operations, and support across on-prem and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in firewall design, cloud networking, segmentation technologies, and both on-prem and cloud-based network security solutions. Jones Lang LaSalle, an international commercial real estate firm, is seeking a skilled and motivated cloud network engineer with expertise in traditional networking, cloud networking, and micro-segmentation technologies to join our IT team. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing network architecture delivery, segmentation deployments, firewall security engineering, and cloud network operations. This includes design, implementation, and support of security frameworks using industry-leading platforms such as Illumio, Guardicore, and Palo Alto. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in network segmentation, security policy design, firewall engineering, cloud networking, and managing complex hybrid environments. Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years experience in network architecture or design, with a global infrastructure focus.
• Experience with micro-segmentation tools ( Illumio, Guardicore ) including policy creation, enforcement, and application dependency mapping.
• Strong understanding of Firewalls, segmentation frameworks, WAN, SD-WAN, network protocols, subnetting, VPNs, QoS, and zero-trust concepts.
• Experience with cloud network architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Expertise in network hardware (Cisco, Palo Alto, etc.) and segmentation agents.
• Experience operating at enterprise scale across WAN, LAN, Data Center, Cloud, and segmented environments.
• Ability to participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Strong knowledge of network security best practices and segmentation strategies.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a global team.
• 8+ years of hands-on networking and network security support.
• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama, and security profiles.

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