Principal, SRE

Northern Trust
Chicago
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 137,400 - 233,600Function: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder collaboration","Architectural trade-off articulation","Partnership with engineering and operations"]

Set the architectural vision and resiliency strategy for critical enterprise platforms by defining reference architectures, guardrails, and maturity models. Translate reliability principles into measurable guidelines, support incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive preventive improvements. Deliver hands-on contributions through observability standards, automation for configuration and deployments, and infrastructure-as-code practices across cloud and on-prem environments. Build an SRE community of practice and partner with teams to align reliability with business goals.

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Principal, SRE

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Job Summary

Set the architectural vision and resiliency strategy for critical enterprise platforms by defining reference architectures, guardrails, and maturity models. Translate reliability principles into measurable guidelines, support incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive preventive improvements. Deliver hands-on contributions through observability standards, automation for configuration and deployments, and infrastructure-as-code practices across cloud and on-prem environments. Build an SRE community of practice and partner with teams to align reliability with business goals.
Location: Chicago
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Create and own resiliency guidelines and continuously improve measurable reliability guidance for application teams.
  • •Support root cause analysis by identifying systemic failure modes, resiliency gaps, and contributing factors; drive preventive measures to reduce recurrence.
  • •Develop and expand automation for resiliency by standardizing infrastructure configuration management and application lifecycle management patterns.
  • •Improve monitoring and observability capabilities to detect and address issues before they impact the business.
  • •Build and sustain an SRE community of practice and communicate reliability strategies across product, development, and operations teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 137,400 - 233,600
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPensionPaid LeaveParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, with 5+ years in site reliability, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
  • •Experience contributing to evolving reliable, scalable system architectures (availability, resiliency, fault-tolerance).
  • •Ability to translate architectural standards into practical implementations with engineering and operations teams.
  • •Experience across cloud and on-prem environments, with consistency, observability, and operational maturity focus.
  • •Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting) and proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language plus at least one IaC/configuration management tool.
Experience:5+ yearsSite reliabilityInfrastructure engineeringDistributed systemsCloud and on-prem environments
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder collaborationArchitectural trade-off articulationPartnership with engineering and operations
Tech Stack:PythonC#JavaTerraformBicepARMChefPuppetAnsibleInfrastructure as CodeConfiguration ManagementCI/CDObservabilityMetricsLoggingTracingDashboardsAlertingMonitoringDistributed systems

Eligibility

Visa:H-1BL-1TNO-1E-3H-1B1F-1J-1OPTCPT
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Northern Trust
Global financial services firm providing wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking solutions to institutions, corporations, and affluent individuals, with a focus on custody, investment management, and technology-driven services.
Industry: Asset Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
Founded: 1889
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