Principal, SW Dev Ops Eng

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer will be aligned to our Cloud/Platform Scrum team and will support across all Domain Teams to enhance and maintain our existing Pipelines for Wealth Passport our Global Family Office (GFO) SaaS solution. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure using Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Key duties include creating automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, managing containerization and orchestration through Docker and Kubernetes, and implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform. The position ensures system reliability through comprehensive monitoring and logging, collaborates effectively with offshore teams, and bridges Development and Operations to enable secure, efficient software delivery. Strategic automation, robust security, and alignment with business objectives are central focus areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of DevOps/Software Engineering, proven track record with complex systems working within a distributed cross-functional team.
• Proficient with Terraform Cloud
• Deep expertise in Azure.
• Proficient in CI/CD tools, GitHub, Gradle, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Python, Go, Java, Bash scripting.
• Solid grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancers.
• Experience with Relational databases: Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle
• Non-relational databases: Redis
• Messaging: Confluent Kafka
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Able to organize, moderate, and demonstrate value-added principles and practices to the teams.
• Experience mitigating Sonar, Checkmarx, CAST scans.
• Experience with continuous integration and test-driven development practices, test automation and tools.
• Empowered self-starter comfortable to take the lead and manage multiple initiatives with ability to effectively collaborate across teams and departments.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge and experience in tools such Azure DevOps/Dashboards and Confluence a plus.
• Experience in the financial service industry is a plus.
• AZ 104 Certification is a plus
• Azure/AWS Cloud Certified

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage scalable infrastructure on Azure using services like AKS/FrontDoor/Key Vaults/APIM/App Gateway etc.
• Develop and maintain automated build, test, and deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions and Gradle).
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform.
• Manage containerized applications with Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes (Centralized AKS).
• Implement monitoring, logging (Dynatrace and Azure Monitor) and alerting for production systems.
• Implement security best practices, encryption, and controls at the infrastructure and pipeline levels.
• Work cross-functionally with dev/ops teams, lead technical initiatives.
• Troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and ensure high availability (SRE principles).

Benefits

• retirement benefits (401k and pension)
• health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability)
• paid time off
• parental and caregiver leave
• life & accident insurance
• other voluntary and well-being benefits
• discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal