Principal, SRE

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management asset servicing asset management and banking services Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the worlds most successful individuals families corporations and institutions.

Since 1889 we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service Expertise and Integrity. Together they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees whom we call partners and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

NT is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Architect/ Engineer who sets the architectural vision and resiliency strategy for critical platforms across Northern Trust.

At Northern Trust reliability is a design-time concern. This role partners with senior technology leaders architects and engineering organizations to definehow reliability is designed measured and sustainedat enterprise scale. It is accountable for reliability architecture outcomes ensuring that resiliency principles are embedded into system design decisions lifecycle governance and engineering standards - rather than relying solely on operational practices after deployment.

You will influence longterm platform evolution by defining reference architectures architectural guardrails and maturity models that guide multiple teams and domains toward highly resilient observable and operable systems.

Architectural leadership in this role does not end at the whiteboard. The Principal Site Reliability Architect is expected to leave the design session able to actively participate in solution creationvalidating architectural decisions through targeted implementation pairing with engineers to shape critical components or contributing focused code and automation where needed. This handson engagement ensures architectural decisions remain actionable technically credible and grounded in realworld operational realities.

This role will be responsible for several key functions that both support and drive improvements to the reliability of Northern Trusts IT Landscape.

What you will do:

• Create and own resiliency guidelines
  • Create maintain and continuously improve one or more resiliency guidelines working directly with technology management teams.
  • Translate resiliency and reliability principles into practical measurable guidance application teams can implement.
  • Guide adoption and maturity of resilient software and infrastructure architectures to proactively improve our product and service landscape.
• Provide guidance in incident response and root cause analysis
  • Support root cause analysis sessions by helping teams identify systemic failure modes resiliency gaps and contributing factors.
  • Partner with teams to define preventive measures and guide implementation plans that reduce recurrence.
  • Feed learnings from incidents back into standards guidelines and automation patterns.
• Build infrastructure configuration and application management automation
  • Develop maintain and expand automation logic to streamline repetitive operational tasks and improve resiliency.
  • Build and standardize infrastructure configuration management and application lifecycle management patterns to increase consistency across environments.
  • Implement and improve monitoring and observability capabilities that help detect and address issues before they impact the business.
• Foster a broader community of practice
  • Help build and sustain an SRE community of practice by collaborating to identify common improvement areas and define standards and governance.
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders across different teams and levels within the organization.
  • Collaborate with product development and operations teams to align reliability and resiliency efforts with overarching business goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degreeor equivalent practical experience with5 yearsin site reliability systems engineering or infrastructure engineering role.
• Experiencecontributing to and evolving reliable scalable system architectures including availability resiliency and faulttolerance patterns.
• Proven ability totranslate architectural standards into practical implementationsin partnership with engineering and operations teams.
• Experience acrosscloud and onprem environments with an architectural focus on consistency observability and operational maturity.
• Solid understanding ofdistributed systems networking and modern application architectures.
• Handson experience withobservability solutions including contributing to and applying standards for metrics logging tracing dashboards and alerting.
• Proficiency in at least oneprogramming or scripting language(e.g. Python C# Java) with the ability to contribute code and guide implementation.
• Proficiency with at least one IaC or Configuration Management language (e.g. Terraform Bicep / ARM Chef Puppet Ansible) with the ability to contribute code and guide implementation.
• Experience deliveringInfrastructure as Code and application deployment automation through CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability toarticulate architectural tradeoffs and reliability strategiesto diverse stakeholders.

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

We hope youre 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.

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B L-1 TN O-1 E-3 H-1B1 F-1 J-1 OPT CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trusts history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.