Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Northern Trust

Actively hiring
Chicago, IL Posted 16 days ago $99,600–$169,200 / year
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TL;DR

Northern Trust is hiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer to join their cloud platform engineering team at a senior level. This role involves designing and implementing secure, scalable Azure infrastructure including RBAC, Entra ID integration, and tagging/naming standards while enabling high-velocity delivery of Java-based services on ACA (Azure Container Apps), App Services, and serverless runtimes. The engineer will collaborate with software engineers, SREs, security teams, and architects to ensure applications are reliable, observable, and compliant with enterprise standards. Key responsibilities include provisioning compute/services, securing virtual networks, enabling CI/CD pipelines for Java workloads, enforcing secrets management, establishing observability practices, and automating infrastructure using Terraform/Bicep and GitOps workflows. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in Azure cloud infrastructure or SRE roles with hands-on expertise in ACA, App Services, Functions, Key Vault, SQL Server, and Java ecosystem technologies such as Spring Boot microservices.

Skills

Azure Terraform Bicep GitHub Actions GitOps Ruby Java Spring Boot ACA (Azure Container Apps) App Services Functions Key Vault App Config SQL Server RBAC Entra ID MFA Prometheus Grafana CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Design and implement Azure landing zones with RBAC, Entra ID integration, and compliant tagging/naming standards.
  • Build secure virtual networks and isolate services using Private Endpoints/Private Link to eliminate public exposure.
  • Provision and manage compute/services including ACA, App Services, Functions, VMs, Key Vault, and SQL Server.
  • Partner with Java teams to containerize services, tune JVM settings, and deploy to ACA/App Services; standardize CI/CD pipelines.
  • Enforce secrets management using Key Vault, least-privilege access, and identity-based controls integrated with RBAC/Entra ID groups.
  • Establish SLOs/SLIs, dashboards, and alerting via Azure Monitor/Log Analytics; implement autoscaling and cost controls.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in Azure cloud infrastructure and security.
  • Expertise in Azure Container Apps, App Services, Functions, Key Vault, SQL Server.
  • Proficient in Java ecosystem including JVM tuning, Spring Boot microservices deployment.
  • Hands-on with IaC tools like Terraform/Bicep and GitOps workflows.
  • Strong knowledge of RBAC, Entra ID, MFA, and secrets management for security compliance.

Market check

Salary context

This $99,600–$169,200 range sits above 33% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$107,900–$198,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$124,087–$189,637

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

Northern Trust currently has 20 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $137,400–$233,600 across 18 roles with salary data.

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