Cloud Engineer, API Management, Automation, & Security Focus

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.

Northern Trust is seeking a dynamic Cloud Engineer with an emphasis in API Management, Automation, and Security Operations to join an organization undergoing an exciting transformation to the cloud. This person will have a strong cloud automation engineering background with experience in application integration and APIs. 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:

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

API Management

• 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

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.

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.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply 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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re 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.