Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Northern Trust; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 137,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in Chicago, responsible for enhancing system reliability and performance. The role demands proficiency in software engineering, strong problem-solving capabilities, and collaboration across teams. Join a leading financial institution to drive improvements using advanced technical solutions and automation.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off and parental leave

Discretionary bonus program

Qualifications

• 2+ years in systems engineering focused on reliability
• Experience with both on-prem and cloud solutions
• Practical experience in Agile development environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to define standards and governance in SRE.
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions.
• Automate operational processes to enhance efficiency.

Skills

Problem-Solving

Software Engineering

System Operations

Automation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or 5 years experience in a relevant field

Tools

Python

Go

Ruby

Java

Job description

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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.

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.

NT is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on developing observability and automation. This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring the reliability and performance of the company’s systems and services. As a Site Reliability Engineer. You will work with cross-functional teams to assist with providing efficiency of our services. Your expertise in both software engineering and system operations will enable our partners to drive continuous improvements in our platform’s reliability. This role will focus on bringing complete observability across all technologies.

This role will be responsible for a number of key functions that both support and drive improvements to the reliability of Northern Trust’s IT Landscape.

What You Will Do

• Participate in an SRE Community: Collaborate to identify common improvement areas and define the standards and governance to drive an SRE practice within all areas.
• System design and Architecture: Work to adopt and mature resilient implementations of software and infrastructure services to proactively improve our product and service landscape.
• Operational Excellence: Identify and streamline operational processes to reduce manual tasks.
• Automate Operations: Develop, maintain or expand on automation scripts and tools to streamline common repetitive tasks, and improve resiliency.
• Incident Response/Root Cause Analysis: Collaborate with root cause analysis and implement measures to prevent recurrence of issues.
• Monitoring and Observability: Implement and improve on monitoring and observability solutions to proactively detect and address issues prior to them impacting our business.
• Develop and maintain targeted dashboards and alerts to provide real-time insights into application and system health.
• Reliability Improvements: Identify opportunities for improving system reliability through process enhancements and technical solutions.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation of systems, processes, and procedures.
• Communication: Communicate effectively with stakeholders across different teams and levels within the organization.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product, development, and operations teams to align SRE efforts with overarching business goals.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 5 years experience in a relevant field
• 2+ years in systems engineering with a focus on reliability, systems operations, and software engineering
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, Java, etc
• Experience with both on-prem and cloud solutions
• Experience with containerization
• Demonstrated ability to implement systems that ensure observability with associated dashboards
• Good understanding of distributed systems, networking, and modern software architectures
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to handle complex technical challenges
• Strong dedication to customer needs, with excellent communication and the ability to build lasting relationships, alongside the capability to articulate complex reliability strategies in a clear and impactful manner.
• Prior experience delivering Infrastructure as Code via a CI/CD pipeline
• Skilled in implementing automation for corrective action based on deployed observability solutions
• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment
  
  

Salary Range

$137,400 - 233,600 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 [e-mail].

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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