Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Northern Trust is seeking an experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineer

What you will do

System design and Architecture: Lead the design and architecture of providing reliability, scalability, and performance of critical complex systems. • Operational Excellence: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and reduce manual tasks. Oversee system performance transparency. NTAC:3NS-20 • Incident Response/Root Cause Analysis: Collaborate with root cause analysis and implement measures to prevent recurrence of issues. • Monitoring and Observability: Design and implement comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions to proactively detect and address issues prior to them impacting our business. • Develop and maintain dashboards and alerts to provide real-time insights into system health. • Reliability Improvements: Identify opportunities for improving system reliability through process enhancements and technical solutions. • Documentation and Communication: Create and maintain detailed documentation of systems, processes, and procedures. • Communicate effectively with stakeholders across different teams and levels within the organization. • Project Management/Collaboration: Manage and prioritize multiple projects and initiatives related to reliability and performance improvements. • Collaborate with product, development, and operations teams to align SRE efforts with overarching business goals

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • 10+ years in systems engineering with a focus on reliability, systems operations, and software engineering • 5+ years as a Team lead or a hands on Technical Manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completion • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, Java, etc • Experience with both on-prem and cloud solutions • Experience with containerization • Demonstrated ability to design and implement systems that ensure observability with associated dashboards • Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and modern software architectures