Principal Site Reliability Architect: Drive Enterprise Resilience

Koitecc Solutions; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Architect/Engineer to define resilience architectures and guardrails for enterprise platforms, partnering with technology leaders to embed reliability into design, governance, and standards.

You will translate principles into practical guidance, lead automation for configuration, monitoring, and deployment, and help grow an SRE community of practice across product, development, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building reliable, scalable architectures with availability and resiliency patterns.
• Ability to translate standards into practical implementations with engineering teams.
• Experience across cloud and on-prem environments with observability focus.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and networking.

Responsibilities

• Create resiliency guidelines and guardrails for enterprise platforms.
• Guide incident response and root-cause analysis to reduce recurrence.
• Develop automation for infrastructure configuration and application lifecycle management.
• Grow a broad SRE community of practice across teams.

Skills

Reliability architecture

Incident analysis

Observability tooling

CI/CD automation

IaC automation

Distributed systems

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Cloud platforms

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Architect/Engineer to define resilience architectures and guardrails for enterprise platforms, partnering with technology leaders to embed reliability into design, governance, and standards.

You will translate principles into practical guidance, lead automation for configuration, monitoring, and deployment, and help grow an SRE community of practice across product, development, and operations teams.