Principal, Cloud Engineer

Northern Trust

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Work type: On-site
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $137,400–$233,600 / yr
Posted: 24 days ago

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This role $186k

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This role pays less than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $156,900–$215,450 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $186k versus about $186k for comparable roles.

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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 15 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $137,400–$233,600 across 14 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal, Cloud Engineer

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The Cloud Container & Serverless Compute Engineer at Northern Trust is a senior-level position within the cloud engineering team, responsible for designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and cost-effective compute solutions in the cloud. This role involves building CI/CD pipelines, automating container orchestration, and developing serverless applications using platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. The engineer will also ensure security through IAM policies and compliance controls while maintaining observability with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Key skills include proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and Go, alongside experience with DevOps practices and cloud networking. This role focuses on modernizing workloads for enterprise applications, ensuring high developer productivity and adherence to strict security standards.

Skills

Kubernetes AWS Azure GCP Terraform Python Go Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Datadog Istio Linkerd Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD Helm AWS Lambda Azure Functions Google Cloud Functions

What you'll do

Design and implement cloud-native architectures using containers and serverless platforms.
Develop automation for container orchestration, scaling, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
Build CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerized and serverless applications.
Implement observability solutions for monitoring, logging, and tracing workloads.
Ensure platform reliability through automation, testing, and continuous improvement.
Enforce security best practices in container and serverless deployments.

What we're looking for

7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering.
Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and other container orchestration platforms.
Strong experience with AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions.
Proficiency in using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM for infrastructure management.
Expertise in Python, Go, or similar programming languages for scripting tasks.
Knowledge of cloud networking, microservices design, and event-driven patterns.
Experience with container registries, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), API gateways.

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