Sr Lead, Solution Architect

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Title: Senior Lead, Architecture Solutions

Other Job Title/Key words: Sr. Cloud Architect, Sr. Kubernetes Architect, Sr. DevOps Platform Architect

Description: Sr. lead cloud architect that will be required to work with business technology teams and across the enterprise with, enterprise architecture, infrastructure teams, specialist teams, to drive cloud native solutions.

This is a fully hands-on approach, requiring experience with Infrastructure as code & scripting to build & maintain durable and fault tolerant infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• In-Depth understanding and provisioning of Azure Cloud Services such as:
  SQLServer, Synapse, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Kubernetes Services, Application Load Balancer, Monitor and other services.
• In-Depth experience with Terraform to write modular, composable terraform modules and resources, and experience with Azure CLI.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes concepts with hands-on experience in provisioning and operating a Kubernetes cluster.
• Good understanding of monitoring usage, costs and building customized reports and alerts.
• Good networking fundamentals and operating with load balancers, vnets, NAT, route tables, NSG, firewall, private endpoint/links.
• Automating manual operational tasks using powershell/bash/python with Github Actions, Azure DevOps or Gitops.
• Continuously assess cloud infrastructure to validate fitment with product teams.
• Work with and train engineers for undertaking DevOps tasks.
• Drive good engineering practices that are measurable and impactful working with engineers.
• Effective documentation and communicante infrastructure landscape for architecture reviews.

Qualifications:

• Masters or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related specializations
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles
• 2+ years hands-on experience on Azure/AWS cloud with:
  • Blob Storage Accounts
  • Cloud based SQL & no-SQL databases
  • Virtual Machines
  • Kubernetes Cluster
• 2+ years hands-on DevOps experience working IaC, building pipelines & monitors
• Worked in Agile teams with iterations

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.