Lead, Infra Automation

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Lead – Infrastructure Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, leading, and governing enterprise‑scale infrastructure automation that enables secure, resilient, and standardized operations across Windows, UNIX/Linux, virtualization, and hybrid cloud platforms.

This role exists to reduce operational toil, eliminate manual lifecycle activities, and accelerate platform delivery through policy‑driven, reusable, and auditable automation aligned to enterprise security and governance standards

The role operates within a central automation enablement model, providing technical leadership across multiple infrastructure domains and collaborating closely with platform engineering, operations, security, and architecture teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Independently Lead the design strategy, development, planning, coordination and deployment of complex infrastructure automation tools and technologies

- Design and implement industry standard, best practices, automation frameworks, patterns, and reusable modules across platforms and teams.

- Drive adoption of Ansible / AAP / AWX‑based orchestration, integrating with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure‑as‑Code models.

- IT App ownership for one of the platforms and services (e.g., Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, lifecycle automation frameworks).

- Ensure automation solutions are resilient, secure, scalable, and auditable, aligned with platform criticality and regulatory requirements.

- Partner with security teams to embed policy‑as‑code, hardening standards, and compliance checks into automation workflows.