Principal, Infra SRE

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.

Major Duties :1. Mentor and support team colleagues in the completion of their duties.

2. Lead and support the activity to set SLOs, monitor SLIs and alert on breaches for critical NT services.

3. Lead and support the activity to design, build and run SRE enablement and automation technology.

4. Provide technical guidance to SREs using the SRE enablement and automation technology.

5. Deal with performance, reliability and availability problems with the team s technology, recruiting help from other SREs or support teams as appropriate.

6. Identify the need for, and action, escalation of team operational matters to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering.

7. Identify the need for escalation of technical matters relating to the team s technology to support personnel and organizations and take action accordingly.

8. Undertake ad-hoc tasks that contribute to the success of the SRE organization.

9. Provide verbal and written reports as may be needed from time to time.

10. Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise

11. Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities

12. Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues

13. Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity

Knowledge :Excellent oral and written communication skills are required

In-depth Functional / Industry Knowledge is required

Highly flexible and adaptable to change

Technical skills / systems knowledge (e.g. Peoplesoft) is required

Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Units goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff.

Experience :Deep technical expertise in at least one technology and proficiency in several others, drawn from those commonly in use in Enterprise-sized organization (e.g Networks, Unix, Windows, VMware, Java, .NET)

Experience solving complex troubleshooting efforts including application performance issues

Highly skilled in network trace analysis of distributed applications

Experience in time-series data collection and analysis

Experience in cloud-based infrastructures is desirable

A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience is required / preferred.

Related Industry qualification (e.g. ACCA) is required / preferred

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

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.