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  • Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 18,500 employees globally. We serve the world's most-sophisticated clients from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.

We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.

Northern Trust is looking for

an Application Sysadmin

Job Description AND Principal Responsibilities

  • This role will have matrix alignment to the Global Technology Organization.
  • Experience in supporting Analytics, data warehousing, profitability, Risk/Compliance applications in financial and banking domain.
  • Thorough understanding of key business processes and ability to communicate and translate those needs to technical solutions
  • Research and solve the data related issues within the environment.
  • Work closely with business partners, technical resources and management (Application Managers, Business Analysts, System Analysts and Development teams)
  • Evaluate the risks and solutions before taking action, so that action plans are timely, realistic and positive
  • Document system process flows and write test scripts for system testing.
  • Create automation for repetitive tasks using various tools.

Experience/ Skills

Experience

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or

equivalent work experience.

  • Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in IT industry in the technical field
  • Working knowledge of writing SQL queries and troubleshoot data related issues.
  • Flexible in managing competing priorities and objectives.

Ability to work independently as needed

Desired types of skillsets

  • Familiarity with Linux Red Hat Administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Server Administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning
  • Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes containerization concepts
  • Familiarity with Oracle Database administration (Exadata knowledge helpful)
  • Familiarity with Azure Cloud computing
  • Scripting knowledge in one or more of the following Terraform, Shell, SQL, batch, PowerShell, creation and troubleshooting
  • Understand SQL queries, analyze data related issues and identify root cause of issues / defects. Develop and implement performance tuning.
  • Perform Network tracing
  • Experience working with enterprise monitoring tools like OEM, Catchpoint, Dynatrace
  • Experience working with ITIL process of incident/change and problem management skills and enterprise ticketing systems.
  • Strong understanding of multi-tier applications. Emphasis on web tier, SSO, SAML
  • Work on scheduling tools Ctrl-M, Cron, Windows Task scheduler and able to identify issues with dependent chain.
  • Understand and implement F5 load balancer configs and troubleshoot firewall related issues
  • Able to work with vendors on support cases and follow up regularly till resolution is found

Preferred/ Recommended Skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Desire to learn new technologies
  • Document system process flows and write test scripts for system testing.
  • Ability to troubleshoot effectively through multi-tiered application stacks

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Testing in support of projects and creation of project artifacts as required by

project life cycle.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at

MyHRHelp@ntrs.com

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.