52 applicants

Company

Original Job Post

Northern Trust · 3 days ago

Sr. Lead, Cloud Engineer

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

10+ years exp

Wonder how qualified you are to the job?

Maximize your interview chances

BankingFinancial Services

Actively Hiring

Insider Connection @Northern Trust

Discover valuable connections within the company who might provide insights and potential referrals, giving your job application an inside edge.

Responsibilities

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.

Manage firewall technologies such as Azure Frond Door, Akamai WAF/CDN via automation and possess networking fundamentals to identify root causes of application connectivity issues.

Support cloud network security platforms and collaborate with tool vendors across WAF/CDN (e.g., Akamai, Azure Front Door, etc.), DNS Management, and load balancing,

Design, develop, and implement automation workflows for network firewalls to enhance security protocols and integrate firewall management within the broader security strategy.

Proficient in APIs to construct REST requests to accomplish a task given API documentation.

HTTP response codes and can Identify the parts of an HTTP response.

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

Find out how your skills align with this job's requirements. If anything seems off, you can easily click on the tags to select or unselect skills to reflect your actual expertise.

Cloud ComputingMicrosoft AzureAWSCloud Networking AutomationTerraformInfrastructure as CodeAzure Networking ToolsDevSecOps ConceptsCI/CD PipelinesSelf-Service AutomationNetwork Infrastructure DesignScripting LanguagesAgile MethodologiesTesting AutomationPolicy-as-CodeWorkload Management

Required

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)

3 to 5+ years cloud networking automation

Terraform Infrastructure as code automation

Preferred

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