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 worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Principal - Cloud Foundations Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Principal - Cloud Foundations Engineer to design build and maintain the core cloud infrastructure and shared services that enable our development and business teams to operate securely reliably and efficiently in the cloud. This role focuses on establishing the landing zones automation governance and operational guardrails that form the foundation for all cloud workloads.

As a Cloud Foundations Engineer you will work across multiple teams to ensure that our cloud environments follow best practices for security scalability automation and cost optimization while enabling self-service adoption by application teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Platform Engineering
  • Design implement and maintain enterprise landing zones and shared cloud services.
  • Manage account/subscription structures across AWS Azure and/or GCP.
  • Build and enforce secure-by-default infrastructure patterns.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation
  • Develop and maintain reusable IaC modules (Terraform CloudFormation Bicep or Pulumi).
  • Build CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment and updates.
  • Enable self-service provisioning capabilities for development teams.
• Security Governance & Compliance
  • Implement identity and access management (IAM) best practices.
  • Configure and maintain guardrails such as policies SCPs and monitoring controls.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal security standards.
• Networking & Connectivity
  • Design and support VPC/VNet architectures routing firewalls VPNs and interconnects.
  • Establish hybrid connectivity solutions with on-premises environments.
• Observability & Cost Optimization
  • Deploy monitoring logging and auditing tools across the environment.
  • Build dashboards to track cloud performance security posture and costs.
  • Recommend and implement cost-saving measures.
• Collaboration & Enablement
  • Partner with application DevOps and security teams to ensure smooth cloud adoption.
  • Provide documentation best practices and training to engineering teams.
  • Participate in incident response and troubleshooting when foundational services are impacted.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 15 years of total work experience in Technology Infrastructure.
  • 10 years of experience in cloud engineering infrastructure or platform operations.
• Technical Skills
  • Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (Azure and AWS).
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform preferred.
  • Hands-on knowledge of networking concepts (VPC DNS firewalls load balancing hybrid connectivity).
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins Azure DevOps etc.).
  • Familiarity with cloud security principles and compliance frameworks.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (Python Bash PowerShell).
• Soft Skills
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Excellent communication mentorship and ability to influence cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technically without direct authority.
  • Ability to balance governance requirements with developer productivity.

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience operating cloud platforms in regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration (EKS AKS GKE).
• Knowledge of service mesh API Gateways or Serverless Platforms.
• Background in FinOps (cloud cost optimization practices).
• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Azure Solutions Architect GCP Professional Cloud Architect).

Success Measures

• Stable secure and scalable cloud foundation adopted across teams.
• Improved developer productivity through reusable frameworks and standards.
• Strong technical mentorship and uplift of data engineering capabilities.
• Reduced onboarding time and operational friction for application teams.
• Improved security posture and audit outcomes.
• Recognized as a trusted technical authority within the Cloud Foundation domain.

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.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds 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 .

We hope youre 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.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office established in 2016 is now home to over 3000 employees. The office handles various functions including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to 2024 they volunteered more than 10000 hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.