Sr. Network Security Engineer

Welcome to Love's! Our Information Security Department is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced network security solutions that safeguard Love’s network, systems, infrastructure, and operational technology environments. This role specializes in network security architecture, firewall management, traffic inspection, and threat mitigation across enterprise environments.

The Sr. Network Security Engineer will lead efforts to secure network perimeters, optimize firewall configurations, support network‑based threat detection, and build and oversee the organization’s operational technology security program. This role also partners closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Retail, and Governance, Risk & Compliance teams to ensure security solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned with regulatory requirements and business needs.

This position requires deep hands‑on technical expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to translate security requirements into practical network solutions. The role is also expected to identify opportunities to responsibly use automation, analytics, and AI‑enabled security tools to improve productivity, streamline security operations, strengthen threat detection, reduce manual work, and improve the speed and consistency of risk remediation.

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise network security solutions, including firewalls, VPNs, NAT, IDS/IPS, WAF, network segmentation, and secure remote access solutions.
• Lead architecture, deployment, policy creation, rule optimization, and threat prevention for next‑generation, cloud, and web application firewall platforms.
• Develop secure network architecture across enterprise IT, cloud, retail, and operational technology environments, including appropriate segmentation, access control, and resilient design.

• Conduct advanced risk assessments, penetration testing support, and threat modeling for network infrastructure, perimeter defenses, IT systems, and OT environments; document findings and track remediation to closure.
• Create and maintain monitoring for network anomalies, support incident response, and lead investigations involving network‑based threats.
• Stay current on emerging network threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies; recommend and implement improvements that reduce risk and improve operational effectiveness.

• Develop, maintain, and enforce network security policies, standards, procedures, diagrams, and related documentation.
• Oversee firewall change management, including rule reviews, impact analysis, stakeholder coordination, audit readiness, and post‑change validation.
• Support compliance activities and security control alignment with applicable frameworks, including PCI DSS, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and related requirements.

• Collaborate with Technology, Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Retail, OT, and GRC teams to integrate network security controls into new and existing projects, platforms, and business initiatives.
• Represent Information Security in cross‑functional projects and vendor assessments to ensure network security requirements are understood and met.
• Build and support the operational technology security program in partnership with business and technology stakeholders, with focus on OT visibility, segmentation, monitoring, access control, and risk reduction.
• Use automation, analytics, and AI‑enabled security tools, where appropriate, to improve productivity, reduce manual effort, and increase consistency in security engineering and operations.
• Mentor junior engineers, provide technical guidance and training on network security best practices, lead related organizational change activities, and participate in the on‑call rotation for high‑severity incidents.

• Hard Skills
  • Advanced network security engineering, including NGFW, VPN, IDS/IPS, WAF, NAT, VLANs, routing, switching, secure segmentation,…