- Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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.
Role - Director, SRE
The Director, SRE for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) will be a very visible, and highly impactful leader who will help stand up and mature a center of excellence dedicated to Site Reliability Engineering across Information Technology at Northern Trust. You will draw from full-stack' deep technical expertise and robust understanding of industry practice and business objectives to deliver strategic solutions. You will have a proven track record of success around best practices employed in establishing a transformational team focused on Reliability Engineering across the enterprise.
Summary
You will be responsible for building out our SRE practice across the enterprise globally. The global SRE team will have Business unit aligned resources as well as infrastructure aligned resources that will drive SRE practices across the firm. SRE will be responsible for ensuring systems are designed for a high degree of reliability and availability, as well as for driving remediation activities for high priority applications within their areas. The groups will be responsible for designing and implementing key patterns for infrastructure implementation in business applications that improve resiliency. The team will also contribute to complex incident and problem resolution. Finally you will also work with the technology learning and development on the delivery of training programs that increase SRE skills across the firm.
1. Leverage operational, technical and strategic skill set to prioritize improvements needed in reliability.
Major Duties
Knowledge/Skills
profitability/performance
- Extensive management experience working in a global technology environment
Experience Required
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
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