Northern Trust
Financial Services
SeniorPrincipalInfrastructureServices(SREPractice)
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“Senior Principal Infrastructure Services (SRE Practice) at Northern Trust. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Automation, Distributed systems. Lead system design and evolution. Partner with teams to influence design”
What You'll Achieve.
Reduce manual effort; Reduce operational toil; Reduce human error; Ensure transparency; Ensure accountability; Minimize customer impact; Minimize business impact; Prevent recurrence; Improve system reliability; Provide real-time insights; Raise service maturity; Improve system resilience; Improve scalability; Improve operational efficiency
Industry & Context.
Diagnose technical issues; Mitigate technical issues; Resolve technical issues; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience, 15+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering, 7+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, Ruby, or equivalent
Nice to Have
Experience designing and delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Hands-on expertise in implementing automated remediation, Practical experience working within Agile and DevOps environments
What You'll Do.
Lead system design and evolution
Partner with teams to influence design
Define and promote reliability patterns
Drive automation-first approach
Design and develop tools
Embed reliability engineering into lifecycle
Establish operational metrics and health indicators
Participate in incident response
Conduct blameless post-incident reviews
Implement corrective actions
Architect and implement end-to-end observability
Define and manage SLIs
Build and maintain dashboards and alerts
Identify reliability gaps
Lead resilience testing efforts
Continuously reduce operational toil
Create and maintain documentation
Work closely with product
Translate reliability data into business insights
Advocate for SRE best practices
Manage and prioritize reliability initiatives
Drive execution of strategic SRE programs
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Engineering teams; Architecture teams; Product teams; Development teams; Platform teams; Security teams; Operations teams
Communication Scope
Articulate strategies clearly; Persuasively articulate strategies
Process & Methodology
Agile, DevOps
Full 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. # **About the Company & Role** Northern Trust is seeking an experienced Sr. Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on developing observability and automation. This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring the reliability and performance of the company’s systems and services. As a Site Reliability DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and deploying key observability services with a deep focus on architecture, production operations, capacity planning, performance management, deployment, and release engineering. You will work with cross-functional teams to assist with providing efficiency of our services. Your expertise in both software engineering and system operations will enable our partners to drive continuous improvements in our platform’s reliability. This role will focus on bringing complete observability across all technologies. This role will be responsible for a number of key functions that both support and drive improvements to the reliability of Northern Trust’s IT Landscape. # **What you will do** ### **Reliability‑Focused System Design & Architecture** * Lead the design and evolution of **highly reliable, scalable, and performant distributed systems** , applying SRE principles across infrastructure and application layers. * Partner with engineering and architecture teams to influence system design decisions that improve **resilience, fault tolerance
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