at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
Summary :
Northern Trust is seeking a dynamic Sr. Lead, Cloud Engineer with an emphasis in Automation and Security Operations to join an organization undergoing an exciting transformation to the cloud. This person will also have a strong cloud automation engineering background with experience in security engineering frameworks. The job will require the right candidate to build, automate, and secure a highly available multi-cloud provider infrastructure environments to protect Northern Trust's cloud-hosted assets and applications. Are you ready for the next step in your career for this exciting opportunity?
Responsibilities:
Cloud DevOps Engineering & Automation :
- Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation (e.g., Terraform) to create IaC patterns and modules to provide acceleration to development end users programmatically.
- Utilize modern software DevOps and CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, etc., to provision infrastructure resources and prevent configuration drift.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless continuous integration of code and deployment as well as promoting disciplined code versioning practices.
- Familiarity and experience with Terraform Cloud for workspace and state management.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, and other stakeholders to ensure cloud technologies are designed in accordance with product roadmaps and well architected frameworks.
- Investigate and resolve complex cloud infrastructure related issues and recommend and develop solutions to issues and create documentation of reengineering processes as required.
- Participate in IT Service Management (ITSM) change, incident, and general requests for cloud platform support for business as usual (BAU) operations.
- Contribute to cloud operation disciplines and improve processes and own such as OS lifecycle management, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, certificate management, etc.
Security Engineering
- Develop, implement, and enforce Policy-as-Code (PaC) for cloud environments (Azure, AWS) to configure, detect, remediate, and enforce security standards.
- Define and implement security policies based upon CIS/NIST industry benchmarks.
- Support remediation of security vulnerabilities using cloud posture management and ITSM tooling in accordance with service level agreements (SLA)
- Manage, configure, enhance, and operate cloud security posture management platforms (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, etc.) for pre-deployment scanning of IaC code to protect infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical fields
- 10+ years of technology experience
- 4 to 8+ years cloud computing (Microsoft Azure, AWS)
- Terraform Infrastructure as code automation
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrate extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following:
- Experience...
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