Senior Associate, Cyber Sec Eng

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.

Title: Senior Associate, Cyber Sec Eng

Major Duties :

• Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems; analyzes information and standard practices to make judgments.
• Works within standardized procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines.
• 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 and misconfiguration using cloud posture management and ITSM tooling in accordance with service level agreements (SLA).
• Configure, enhance, and operate cloud security posture management platforms (e.g., Wiz) for pre-deployment scanning of IaC code to protect infrastructure.
• Evaluate new technology options for cloud security, vendor products to make recommendations to leadership.
• Participate in IT Service Management (ITSM) change, incident, and general requests.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical fields.
• Working experience with cloud computing (Microsoft Azure, AWS).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation (e.g., Terraform).
• Proficiency in code and scripting languages to include Python, PowerShell, YAML.
• Proficiency in Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
• Proficiency in DevOps and CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, ADO, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Independently managing workload, coordinating priorities with technical leads, and completing deliverables per the processes and standards.
• Relevant certifications from Azure, AWS, CSA, ISC2.
• 2+ years of Cloud Engineering or Security experience.

Salary Range:
$88,900 - 151,100 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.