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Northern Trust · 3 days ago

Principal Cloud Engineer - API Management, Automation, & Security Focus

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

15+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Principal leader on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation (e.g., Terraform) to guide pattern architecture via IaC to provide acceleration to dev team end users programmatically.

Expert in modern software DevOps and CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, etc., to provision infrastructure resources and prevent configuration drift.

Acts as senior technical advisor to DevOps team to help enable adoption of cloud best practices across enterprise by focusing on broader strategic priorities for leadership.

Evaluates new technology options for cloud automation, vendor products to make recommendations to leadership to integrate into DevOps infrastructure frameworks.

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.

Mentor junior DevOps engineer personnel to ensure team has necessary skill and capabilities.

Design, develop, and implement CI/CD and configuration management solutions using Azure APIM for API onboarding, deployments, auto-provisioning of security, SLA policies, custom endpoint creation.

Design, develop and implement integration with API registry platforms – API Center, ServiceNow by parsing metadata from Swagger/OAS formats.

Design, develop, and implement custom developer portals integrated with APIM.

Design, develop and implement automated user provisioning, API access request process workflows for consumption governance and auto-provisioning of consuming apps.

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.

Qualification

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Cloud ComputingAPI ManagementTerraformAzureAWSInfrastructure as CodeAzure NetworkingDevSecOpsCI/CD PipelinesAutomationNetwork InfrastructureScripting LanguagesAgile MethodologiesTesting AutomationSecurity ControlsPolicy-as-CodeWorkload ManagementProject ManagementAgile EnvironmentProblem-SolvingOut-of-the-Box ThinkingPassionWork IndependentlyTime ManagementCoordination

Required

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical fields

15+ years of technology experience

6 to 10+ years cloud computing (Azure, AWS)

3 to 5+ years API management and related technologies

Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation

Preferred

Heavy emphasis on API Management skills, out of the box thinker

Experience with Azure networking tools (V-WAN, VNET, BGP, etc.)

Proven understanding of DevSecOps concepts, and has implemented or working knowledge of using those skills in an already existing framework

Strong passion for end-to-end DevOps automation via CI/CD pipelines to deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and usage of tools (e.g., ADO, GitHub/Actions, Jenkins, or equivalents).

Ability to manage infrastructure environments, configurations, and IaC scripts to support application pattern and workflows via self-service automation (e.g., Backstage.io).

Support all phases of the cloud resource lifecycle management and develop new IaC automation capabilities when new cloud service products are created and business need.

Strong understanding of the design, implementation and maintenance of network infrastructure in multi-region and multi-cloud environments

Proficiency in scripting languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, PowerShell, YAML, KQL, other

Proficiency in waterfall and Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. delivery methodologies

Knowledge and experience in testing automation harnesses and frameworks

Understanding and ability to ensure operational stability and enforcement of security controls via Policy-as-Code and IaC automation.

Independently managing workload, coordinating priorities with technical leads, and completing deliverables per the processes and standards

Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks and projects and maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects in an Agile environment.