Sr Implementation Lead, SRE (CoP) at Northern Trust

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Financial Services, BankingIndustries

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

SRESLOsSLIsError BudgetsAutomationObservabilityIncident ResponseCapacity PlanningRelease EngineeringPlatform Engineering

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

What is the salary for the Sr Implementation Lead, SRE (CoP) position?

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Is this a remote position or what is the location requirement?

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What key skills or experiences are required for this SRE role?

The role requires expertise in SRE frameworks, defining SLOs/SLIs/error budgets, automation for incident response and observability, chaos engineering, and knowledge of emerging trends in SRE, DevOps, and AI-driven reliability engineering.

What is the company culture like at Northern Trust?

Northern Trust emphasizes principles of service, expertise, and integrity, fostering a culture of reliability, blameless postmortems, continuous learning, and collaboration across teams with over 22,000 partners serving sophisticated clients.

What makes a strong candidate for this Senior Implementation Lead role?

Strong candidates will have experience leading SRE practice implementation, building communities of practice, driving automation and tooling, and collaborating cross-functionally to embed SRE into SDLC and promote continuous improvement.