Northern Trust

Senior Implementation Lead, SRE

Northern Trust

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ChicagoIllinoisUnited 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

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

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