Network Engineer III

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McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years.

Joining McDonald’s means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern and relevant technology that supports the way McDonald’s works. We provide best-in-class foundational technology products and services including Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. It’s our goal to always provide an engaging, relevant, and simple experience for our customers.

Reporting to the Director Global Network Security, the Senior Network Security Engineer will design, implement, and maintain the McDonald’s network security infrastructure and systems. You will play an essential role in ensuring that McDonald’s network is secured from both internal and external threat landscape.

In addition to technical expertise, the successful candidate will have excellent communication and problem‑solving skills, as well as the ability to work well in a global team. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and talented Network Engineer to take on a key role in the organization’s technology team and make a meaningful impact on its operations and success.

Global Technology is the team that is responsible for the securing of McDonald’s information assets at a global level. This role will be part of the group within Global Technology that is responsible for our critical network security services, including firewall, IPS/IDS, Content Filtering, SASE, SSE, ZTNA, VPN, NDR and DDoS. You will work closely with market technology teams, Global Technology Risk Management teams, Global Technology Infrastructure and Operations teams, application owners, key vendors, and others to ensure the proper design, implementation and operations of McDonald’s network security platforms and services.

• Design, implement, and operate global network security platforms that supports global, corporate and restaurant network infrastructure and operations.
• Configure and manage firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, NAC, VPN, SSE and other security platforms.
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers and architects and managed service partners to innovate and deliver network security and wider NIO outcomes.
• Responsible for providing urgent support and troubleshooting for our customers outside of regular business hours.
• Drive automation first approach to platform and configuration deployment. Adopt Infrastructure as code.
• Produce test plan, create test cases and perform functional and non-functional testing of network security platforms.
• Monitor and predict platform capacity and performance related issue and work with TPM to resolve it before it becomes…