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Principal, Cloud Engineer

Principal, Cloud Engineer

Northern TrustChicago, Illinois, USA
11 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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 worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Position Overview

The Cloud Container & Serverless Compute Engineer is responsible for designing implementing and supporting containerized and serverless workloads in the cloud. This role builds scalable resilient and cost-effective compute solutions while ensuring security governance and operational excellence. The engineer collaborates with application development DevOps and platform teams to deliver modern cloud-native applications and services.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Engineering

  • Design and implement cloud-native architectures leveraging containers (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift ECS AKS GKE) and serverless platforms (AWS Lambda Azure Functions Google Cloud Functions).
  • Develop automation for container orchestration scaling monitoring and lifecycle management.
  • Build CI / CD pipelines for deploying containerized and serverless applications.
  • Implement API-driven solutions and event-driven architectures using serverless compute.
  • Ensure workloads are optimized for performance cost and scalability.

Operations & Reliability

  • Operate and maintain container platforms and serverless services across multiple cloud environments.
  • Implement observability solutions for monitoring logging and tracing (e.g. Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Datadog).
  • Troubleshoot runtime issues and improve the resiliency of workloads through autoscaling load balancing and failover strategies.
  • Ensure platform reliability through automation testing and continuous improvement.
  • Security & Governance

  • Enforce security best practices in container and serverless deployments including secrets management IAM policies and network controls.
  • Implement compliance controls vulnerability scanning and patch management for workloads.
  • Ensure container images and serverless functions meet enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaboration & Enablement

  • Partner with application teams to modernize workloads using containers and serverless compute.
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance on best practices in containerization and serverless design patterns.
  • Contribute to standards playbooks and reusable frameworks to accelerate adoption.
  • Mentor junior engineers and upskill teams on container and serverless technologies.
  • Qualifications

    Education & Experience :

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
  • 7 years of experience in cloud engineering DevOps or platform engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes ECS AKS or GKE).
  • Strong experience with serverless services (AWS Lambda Azure Functions Google Cloud Functions).
  • Experience with IaC (Terraform CloudFormation ARM) for managing infrastructure.
  • Skills & Competencies :

  • Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP).
  • Strong programming / scripting skills in Python Go or similar.
  • Experience with container registries service mesh (Istio Linkerd) and API gateways.
  • Familiarity with DevOps tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD Helm).
  • Knowledge of cloud networking microservices design and event-driven patterns.
  • Strong troubleshooting problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Key Success Metrics

  • Uptime performance and scalability of container and serverless workloads.
  • Speed and reliability of deployments through CI / CD pipelines.
  • Cost optimization of compute workloads across serverless and container platforms.
  • Compliance with enterprise security and governance standards.
  • Developer productivity and adoption of container / serverless solutions
  • Salary Range : $137400 - 233600 USD

    Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

    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.

    Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply 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 .

    We hope youre 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.

    Key Skills

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    Employment Type : Full-Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 137400 - 233600

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