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.

Job description:

Technology is seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join the Enterprise CI/CD team as an Automation/Release Engineer working closely with GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps.  The team is responsible for administrating the CI/CD tools and developing self-service automation to aid application code deployment through multiple environments as well as some desktop processes through the various tools.  This individual will be responsible for enhancing and automating the current systems to better enable agile development for hundreds of application teams across IT.  We are seeking a candidate who is passionate about DevOps CI/CD and has the technical expertise to succeed. 

Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate would have Code Migration / Release Automation experience within a medium to large enterprise environment.  As a member of the team owning all of the Enterprise’s CI/CD tools, they will have the opportunity to design and implement features available at large-scale and enable developers to deliver safely at high speeds. 

The automation engineer will design and support scalable deployment workflows utilizing a number of CI/CD tools and script infrastructure processes to enable self-service requests. 

Technical Understanding of:

> 10 years of years of experience in Administrating GitHub Enterprise & Azure DevOps (permissions, API integrations, pipeline scripting, limitations, etc), CA Release Automation (CARA)

Docker, API integration with an eye for security. Infra engineering, administration of tools and technology.

ITSM process experience utilizing ticketing tools like Remedy or Service-Now

Scripting using Shell, Python, PowerShell

Application release automation or code migrations utilizing GitHub, Azure DevOps, the Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Confluence), CA Release Automation (Nolio), or similar automation tools

Prior experience of working in a Global team where work assignments are done via user stories in a Sprints and team reports progress of work in scrum meetings. Experience of planning work using Azure Dev Ops or JIRA.

Exposure to / Plus:

Experience installing and administering applications in Unix, Linux, and Windows environments including debugging and command line

Familiarity with web services, REST, SOAP, or AJAX, etc…

Windows & Linux Server Administration.

.Net & General networking/internet communication protocols

Remote desktop administration.

Extensive Java JRE/JDK knowledge.

Qualifications / Skills:

Ability to code or script and understand existing scripts or logical workflows

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least one year of technical experience with multiple platforms, operating systems, software, communications and network protocols or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Willingness and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Self-starter and works effectively with minimal direction

Creativity and thinking outside the box

Ability to work in a team atmosphere

Detail and process oriented

Excellent organizational skills

Leadership skills to drive problem resolution

Must be able to multi-task effectively

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.