Full Stack Cloud Engineer

About

Client: Northern Trust

Job Duties

• We are looking for a skilled full stack cloud engineer to help us build and scale our Insurance Accounting System
• In this role, your duties will require deep experience in AWS, serverless computing, Data ETL pipelines, and relational databases
• You will be working on an application with a lean and autonomous development team
• You should demonstrate experience and creativity in system development and application design
• Outstanding engineers combine their IT expertise with in-depth financial business knowledge
• Expectations of independence, working with Product and Ops
• End to end ownership of the application (typescript/SQL) and infrastructure code (terraform).
• Attending all design and product meetings and providing technical insight into implementation.
• Operating independently and autonomously using the task board in Azure DevOps.
• Navigating an enterprise organization that requires collaboration across many teams.

Day to day Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operations of an enterprise Kubernetes platform (100+ clusters, ~50% production)
• Perform routine operational tasks including cluster maintenance, upgrades, patching, health checks, and capacity management
• Troubleshoot and resolve Kubernetes platform issues impacting cluster or application availability
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Act as a backup platform engineer to enable on-call rotation and reduce key-person dependency
• Provide after-hours support as part of a shared on-call rotation
• Serve as a secondary escalation point for critical Production issues
• Assist internal application teams with Kubernetes-related questions and issues
• Support common Kubernetes constructs such as Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, and Secrets
• Help teams troubleshoot networking, DNS, ingress, certificate, and resource-related issues
• Review application configurations for Kubernetes best practices and platform alignment
• Work with integrated enterprise tools such as:
  • Ingress controllers (e.g., Contour / Envoy)
  • Logging platforms (e.g., Fluent Bit, centralized log aggregation)
  • Monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace or similar)
  • Container registries (e.g., Harbor, JFrog, etc)
• Help document operational procedures, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
• Share Kubernetes knowledge and best practices with internal teams
• Assist in improving platform resiliency, operational maturity, and supportability.

Interview Process

• Interview process: One virtual panel interview. A second round will be F2F

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Python
• Experience working on financial applications
• Experience working with data visualization applications
• Snowflake database experience

Required Technical skills

• Typescript
• Python
• Cloud architecture
• Serverless computing
• Relational database
• ETL pipelines

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering.