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.
DevOps within Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) Investments Technology is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable DevOps and cloud engineering practices supporting portfolio management, trading, and analytics platforms.
This role partners closely with engineering teams, product owners, and investment stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance systems through modern CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks.
Key Responsibilities DevOps & Platform Engineering - Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable software delivery
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep)
- Build and manage cloud-native environments (Azure) for application hosting, data processing, and services
- Establish DevOps best practices for build, deploy, release, and version control workflows
Cloud & Infrastructure - Deploy and manage applications across Azure services (App Services, AKS, Functions, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, Storage)
- Optimize system scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Implement cloud security practices including identity/access management, secrets management, and compliance controls
- Implement observability frameworks using tools like Azure Monitor, Application Insights, logging & alerting systems
- Ensure high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery for critical investment platforms
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of production incidents
- Drive automation across:
- Build/test/deploy pipelines, Environment provisioning, Testing frameworks (unit, integration, performance)
- Reduce manual effort and improve time-to-market through CI/CD optimization
- Promote use of AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to improve developer productivity
Collaboration & Delivery - Partner with developers, QA, and product teams to embed DevOps in Agile delivery processes
- Support sprint planning, release planning, and continuous delivery pipelines
- Act as a bridge between engineering and operations, ensuring alignment on delivery and production readiness
Leadership & Mentorship - Provide technical guidance to engineers on DevOps practices and cloud architecture
- Champion DevOps culture across teams (automation, ownership, reliability)
- Influence architecture decisions for scalable, cloud-first systems
Required Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform engineering
- Strong experience with:
- Azure Cloud (DevOps, App Services, Functions, Storage, networking)
- CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / ARM / Bicep)
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language:
- Python, Bash, PowerShell, or C#
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes preferred)
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile practices, and release management
Salary Range:
$99,600 - 169,200 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.
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 .
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.
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