Cloud Engineer, API Management, Automation, Cloud Security Specialist

4 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Full time
About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. As a Fortune 500 company, we provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions.

We are proud to serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. With over 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we are committed to assisting the communities we serve.

Summary:
Northern Trust is seeking a dynamic Principal, Cloud Engineer with an emphasis in API Management, Automation, and Security Operations to join our organization undergoing an exciting transformation to the cloud.

This person will have a strong cloud automation engineering background with experience in application integration and APIs. The job will require the right candidate to build, automate, and secure a highly available multi-cloud provider infrastructure environments to protect Northern Trust's cloud-hosted assets and applications.

Responsibilities:

Cloud DevOps Engineering & Automation:

Lead the development of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation using Terraform to guide pattern architecture and provide acceleration to dev team end users programmatically.

Expert in modern software DevOps and CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, etc., to provision infrastructure resources and prevent configuration drift.

Act as a senior technical advisor to DevOps team to help enable adoption of cloud best practices across enterprise by focusing on broader strategic priorities for leadership.

Evaluate new technology options for cloud automation, vendor products to make recommendations to leadership to integrate into DevOps infrastructure frameworks.

Collaborate with product, architecture, and other stakeholders to ensure cloud technologies are designed in accordance with product roadmaps and well-architected frameworks.

Investigate and resolve complex cloud infrastructure related issues and recommend and develop solutions to issues and create documentation of reengineering processes as required.

Participate in IT Service Management (ITSM) change, incident, and general requests for cloud platform support for business as usual (BAU) operations.

Mentor junior DevOps engineer personnel to ensure team has necessary skill and capabilities.

API Management:

Design, develop, and implement CI/CD and configuration management solutions using Azure APIM for API onboarding, deployments, auto-provisioning of security, SLA policies, custom endpoint creation.

Design, develop and implement integration with API registry platforms - API Center, ServiceNow by parsing metadata from Swagger/OAS formats.

Design, develop, and implement custom developer portals integrated with APIM.

Design, develop and implement automated user provisioning, API access request process workflows for consumption governance and auto-provisioning of consuming apps.

Security Engineering:

Develop, implement, and enforce Policy-as-Code (PaC) for cloud environments (Azure, AWS) to configure, detect, remediate, and enforce security standards.

Define and implement security policies based upon CIS/NIST industry benchmarks.

Support remediation of security vulnerabilities using cloud posture management and ITSM tooling in accordance with service level agreements (SLA).

Manage, configure, enhance, and operate cloud security posture management platforms (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, etc.) for pre-deployment scanning of IaC code to protect infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical fields.

15+ years of technology experience.

6 to 10+ years cloud computing (Azure, AWS).

3 to 5+ years API management and related technologies.

Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation.

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrate extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following:

Heavy emphasis on API Management skills, out of the box thinker.

Experience with Azure networking tools (V-WAN, VNET, BGP, etc.).

Proven understanding of DevSecOps concepts, and has implemented or working knowledge of using those skills in an already existing framework.

Strong passion for end-to-end DevOps automation via CI/CD pipelines to deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and usage of tools (e.g., ADO, GitHub/Actions, Jenkins, or equivalents).

Ability to manage infrastructure environments, configurations, and IaC scripts to support application pattern and workflows via self-service automation (e.g., ).

Support all phases of the cloud resource lifecycle management and develop new IaC automation capabilities when new cloud service products are created and business need.

Strong understanding of the design, implementation and maintenance of network infrastructure in multi-region and multi-cloud environments.

Proficiency in scripting languages:
Python, Perl, Ruby, PowerShell, YAML, KQL, other.

Proficiency in waterfall and Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. delivery methodologies.

Knowledge and experience in testing automation harnesses and frameworks.

Understanding and ability to ensure operational stability and enforcement of security controls via Policy-as-Code and IaC automation.

Independently managing workload, coordinating priorities with technical leads, and completing deliverables per the processes and standards.

Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks and projects and maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects in an Agile environment.

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.



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