Sr Implementation Lead, SRE (CoP)

Northern Trust

Actively hiring
Chicago, IL Posted 16 days ago $164,600–$288,000 / year
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TL;DR

The SRE Community of Practice (CoP) Senior Implementation Lead at Northern Trust is a pivotal role within the organization's Site Reliability Engineering team, focusing on scaling and standardizing SRE practices across various business units. This senior-level position involves leading the strategic implementation of SRE frameworks aligned with global best practices, developing governance models to enhance operational resilience, and fostering a community of practice through knowledge sharing and mentorship. Key responsibilities include driving automation for incident response and capacity planning, partnering with platform engineering teams to implement observability tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus, and advocating for reliability-focused cultural changes across the enterprise. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles, expertise in cloud-native architectures, and strong skills in automation, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management frameworks.

Skills

SRE DevOps CI/CD Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Splunk Azure Monitor Dynatrace Python Cloud-Native Architectures Hybrid Cloud Architectures Observability Practices Chaos Engineering Terraform AWS Grafana

What you'll do

  • Lead strategic implementation of SRE frameworks aligned with global best practices.
  • Develop and enforce SRE standards to drive operational resilience across the organization.
  • Organize technical forums and training programs to enhance SRE capabilities.
  • Drive adoption of automation-first approaches for incident response and capacity planning.
  • Identify and implement industry-leading SRE tools to enhance system resilience.
  • Advocate for a culture of reliability, blameless postmortems, and continuous learning.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
  • Strong understanding of SRE principles and cloud-native architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven ability to build and lead communities of practice in large enterprises.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, Azure Monitor.

Market check

Salary context

This $164,600–$288,000 range sits above 88% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$141,900–$212,850

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$158,725–$207,690

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 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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