Job Summary:
Northern Trust is a globally recognized financial institution committed to providing innovative financial services. The SRE Community of Practice (CoP) Senior Implementation Lead will drive the adoption and standardization of Site Reliability Engineering practices, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with reliability and automation goals across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the strategic implementation of SRE frameworks, aligning with global best practices and business objectives.
• Develop and enforce SRE standards, processes, and governance models to drive operational resilience.
• Define and enable SREs to track key reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) across critical applications and infrastructure.
• Establish and nurture a strong SRE Community of Practice, promoting knowledge exchange and shared learning.
• Organize technical forums, workshops, and training programs to uplift SRE capabilities across engineering teams.
• Act as a mentor and advisor to SRE teams, enabling continuous improvement in site reliability practices.
• Drive the adoption of automation-first approaches for incident response, capacity planning, and release engineering.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to standardize observability, chaos engineering, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Identify and implement industry-leading SRE tools and technologies to enhance system resilience.
• Work closely with engineering, operations, risk, and compliance teams to embed SRE principles into SDLC and ITSM processes.
• Serve as a bridge between leadership and technical teams, translating strategic objectives into actionable SRE initiatives.
• Advocate for a culture of reliability, blameless postmortems, and continuous learning across the enterprise.
• Empower a distributed community of practitioners to work across organizational partitions and contribute to enabler services and systems.
• Evaluate emerging trends in SRE, DevOps, and AI-driven reliability engineering to drive innovation.
• Establish a feedback loop to measure the impact of SRE initiatives and continuously refine strategies.
• Promote resilience engineering techniques to proactively identify and mitigate failure points.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or software reliability engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, cloud-native architectures, modern hybrid architectures, and observability practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, Azure Monitor), and incident management frameworks.
• Proven ability to build and lead communities of practice within large-scale enterprises.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Company:
Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking. Founded in 1889, the company is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.