Manager - Cloud Container Services

Northern Trust
Pune
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Stakeholder management","Operational excellence","Automation mindset"]

Lead operational governance and lifecycle management for an enterprise Azure Central Kubernetes (CAKS) platform. Own AKS service reliability, security, and platform adoption for mission-critical and non-mission-critical workloads, driving incident/problem/change management, SLAs/SLOs, and executive reporting. Build automation-first operating standards using GitHub and Infrastructure as Code, manage multi-tenant AKS environments, and lead a Kubernetes platform operations team to modernize and improve service health and resilience.

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Northern Trust
Northern Trust
20 hours ago

Manager - Cloud Container Services

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Job Summary

Lead operational governance and lifecycle management for an enterprise Azure Central Kubernetes (CAKS) platform. Own AKS service reliability, security, and platform adoption for mission-critical and non-mission-critical workloads, driving incident/problem/change management, SLAs/SLOs, and executive reporting. Build automation-first operating standards using GitHub and Infrastructure as Code, manage multi-tenant AKS environments, and lead a Kubernetes platform operations team to modernize and improve service health and resilience.
Location: Pune
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and manage the enterprise Azure Central Kubernetes (CAKS) platform, ensuring availability, stability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
  • •Lead Incident, Problem, Change, Capacity, and Availability Management processes and establish operational standards, support models, runbooks, and governance controls.
  • •Oversee centralized multi-tenant AKS environments, managing cluster operations, node pool lifecycle, networking, and platform integrations for workload onboarding and standardization.
  • •Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs and operational KPIs, lead major incident management and root cause analysis, and drive reliability/resilience improvements.
  • •Lead, mentor, and develop a Kubernetes platform operations team while presenting executive dashboards and operational risk/capacity/cost recommendations.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in data, cloud, container, or platform engineering, including Azure and/or AWS environments, with 15+ years total work experience.
  • •5+ years of people management experience leading platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or operations teams.
  • •Proven experience managing enterprise-scale Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms.
  • •Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and container technologies including Docker, Helm, and ArgoCD.
  • •Strong ITIL service management experience, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management; plus experience building executive operational dashboards.
Experience:10+ yearsCloud engineeringContainer engineeringPlatform engineeringAzureDevOpsITIL
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipStakeholder managementOperational excellenceAutomation mindset
Tech Stack:AzureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)CAKSKubernetesDockerHelmArgoCDGitHubInfrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepRBACAzure ADManaged IdentitiesAzure Key VaultAzure PolicyHub and Spoke ArchitecturePrivate LinkAzure FirewallCI/CD

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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