Senior Implementation Lead, SRE

Northern Trust

SRE Community of Practice Senior Implementation Lead responsible for scaling SRE principles at Northern Trust. Driving adoption and standardization of SRE practices across the organization.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $164,600 - $288,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudITSMPrometheusSDLCSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
other voluntary and well-being benefits
discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

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Hard Skills & Tools

SRE frameworksreliability metricsautomationCI/CD pipelinesmonitoring toolsincident management frameworkscloud-native architectureshybrid architecturesobservability practicesresilience engineering techniques

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipstakeholder managementmentoringcommunity buildingcontinuous improvementknowledge exchangeorganizational collaborationstrategic alignmentadvocacy for reliability culture