
Senior Implementation Lead, SRE
Northern Trust
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $164,600 - $288,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
- 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
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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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