Title : Cloud DevOps Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (On-site Day 1)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Summary:
Client is seeking a dynamic Cloud DevOps Engineer with an emphasis on Automation,
and Security Operations to join an organization undergoing an exciting transformation to the
cloud. This person will have a strong cloud automation engineering background with experience
in application integration and APIs. The job will require the right candidate to build, automate, and
secure a highly available Azure-cloud provider infrastructure environments to protect Northern
Trust's cloud-hosted assets and applications. Are you ready for the next step in your career for
this exciting opportunity?
Responsibilities:
Cloud DevOps Engineering & Automation:
• Building infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation (e.g., Terraform) . IaC to provide
acceleration to dev team end users programmatically.
• Good knowledge of modern software DevOps and CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub, GitHub
Actions, ADO, etc., to provision infrastructure resources and prevent configuration drift.
• Evaluates new technology options for cloud automation, vendor products to make
recommendations to leadership to integrate into DevOps infrastructure frameworks with
Terraform Cloud for workspace and state management.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and other stakeholders to ensure cloud
technologies are designed in accordance with product roadmaps and well architected
frameworks.
• Investigate and resolve complex cloud infrastructure related issues and recommend and
develop solutions to issues and create documentation of reengineering processes as
required.
• Participate in IT Service Management (ITSM) change, incident, and general requests for
azure cloud platform support for business as usual (BAU) operations.
Security Engineering
• Develop and enforce Policy-as-Code (PaC) for cloud environments (Azure) to configure,
detect, remediate, and enforce security standards.
• Work within the team to define and implement security policies based upon CIS/NIST
industry benchmarks.
• Support remediation of security vulnerabilities using cloud posture management and
ITSM tooling in accordance with service level agreements (SLA)
• Manage, configure, enhance, and operate cloud security posture management platforms
(e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, etc.) for pre-deployment scanning of IaC code to protect
infrastructure.
