Network Security Engineer

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

We are seeking a passionate Network Security Engineer to assist us in delivering and implementing a suite of new technology solutions for the company. The Network Security Engineer role will contribute to the delivery of various technical products alongside other engineers and architects. 

The Network Security Engineer will be part of the team responsible for developing and supporting Elanco’s Network and Security Platform. The team collaborates closely with the technical service owners and operations team to continuously raise the reliability bar for our services, guiding the adoption of Elanco’s network and security platform. The team provides direction for the implementation of modern technologies and a zero-trust strategy throughout all stages of the service development life cycle. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead firewall and NAC security projects within the organisation 

• Focus on the creation and execution of medium to high complexity firewall tasks  

• Assist with low to medium complexity NAC engineering projects  

• Contact role between InfoSec and TechOps teams to improve the execution of network security design reviews by the operational team 

• Interact with Operations support teams as part of the technology lifecycle and report back on operational challenges. 

• Provide business IT consultancy to ensure the introduction of services secured by design. 

• Deliver network security engineering projects per agreed policies, processes, and procedures. 

• Ongoing policy review and adjustment to maintain and develop our security posture 

• Proactively research emerging technologies and approaches to enhance Elanco’s network security posture. 

• Creating and maintaining documentation artefacts ensures our solutions are well recorded and easily understood. 

• Building enhancements and fixes where necessary. 

• Ensuring the delivered solution meets technical, architectural, and application principles and complies with our IT Security, Privacy, and Quality needs. 

• Actively building and staying abreast of emerging technologies, guiding teams on how to interpret and best leverage the emerging technologies. 

• Engaging in the community (internally and externally) across multiple channels, looking to share, educate, and inspire.