Senior Consultant, Application

Job Description

About Northern Trust:Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. Working with Us:As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve! We recognize the value of inclusion and diversity in culture, in thought, and in experience, which is why we are honored to receive the following awards in 2021:

• Gender Equality Index Member, Bloomberg
• Top Financial & Banking Company, Black EOE Journal, Hispanic Network Magazine, Professional WOMANS Magazine

We d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of America s best banks and most sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.Responsibilities: As an experienced DEVOPS/tooling engineer you will work within the TA Matrix Fleet to help build an ecosystem spanning multiple platforms, technologies and applications. You will have strong knowledge and experience of CI/CD concepts combined with scalable distributed data platforms. Strong skills are required in tools such as Jenkins / Bamboo / teamcity, python, ansible, bash, and CI/CD pipelines, scheduling and automation and how to integrate these with monitoring, analytics, capacity management and referential systems. There is an emphasis on Linux; however Windows skills will also be required. It is desirable but not essential to have a hybrid cloud transformation background including AWS, Azure or IBM and be able to work with both new and legacy applications with a view of modernisation and automation. Familiarity with security concepts such as working with tokens, keys, cyphers and security vaults is also advantageous. You will work closely with the Development in helping the department deliver a modern DEVOPS way of working to maximise the shift left concept allowing innovation and evolve the effectiveness of application releases to the Business and Customers. The DEVOPS representative will be working in the production element of the working model and will act as a technical representative promoting a DEVOPS mind-set within the organisation and be a liaison between partners.

• Further promote a DEVOPS mind-set within the development and production teams
• Help encourage changing ways of working to modern day practices
• Design tools for managing application automation, deployment, configuration and monitoring integration
• Look for efficiency gains and make recommendations to the team
• Assist in streamlining and automating build jobs with a view to move towards a CI/CD deployment model of code
• Help build automated referential integration to feed and drive platform understanding and integrations
• Contribute and provide feedback with architecture teams to help improve automated toolsets in use
• Manage communication to TA Matrix squads for deployment readiness to upper environments ideally with automated release notes driven from git / jira
• Help monitor performance of the builds and make recommendations to improve their performance and availability
• Assist in the environment configuration management to help ensure consistency and reliability of deployments
• Understand maven and gradle builds and integration of Sonar scans to QA code commits
• Experience with docker / kubernetes environments
• Integration of monitoring tools such as Geneos and Prometheus, Instana, Dynatrace advantageous along with understanding of ServiceMesh and E2E platform monitoring
• Use of automation tools and scripting to integrate to existing and new system using technologies such as ansible and python
• Collaborate closely with test managers and development to ensure efficient use of environments
• Maintain system documentation and supporting releases with the required project requirements
• Supporting the release management processes in place and follow incident, problem and change management
• Provide ongoing support for development environment builds
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of Datastage (or any other ETL tool) deployment.

Required Skills:

• At least three years experience in a DEVOPS capacity, experience with project tasks, support knowledge and understanding of incident, problem, release and change management. Experience working in highly regulated industries with globally distributed systems.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DEVOPS software development methodologies; continuous integration tools
• String skills in tools such as Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Bamboo/Jenkins, slack, git, build tools such and maven / gradle and code assurance skills around unit testing, code coverage, sonar etc.
• Experience in Networking security and middleware technologies/interfaces (APIs) such as MQ, Kafka, Kubectl, ServiceNow etc.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, knowledge of MS SQL Server, Oracle, and Marklogic advantageous
• Able to automate with tools such as Ansible and Python and understand technologies like SWAGGER, API s, digital interfaces, secrets and rest calls
• Big data platforms beneficial, ELK and Geneos advantageous and understanding of limitations and considerations
• Understand of Cloud and security concepts public and private and knowledge of SaaS, IaaS and IaC etc.
• Good knowledge of Windows and Linux OS s, mainframe and iSeries knowledge also advantageous
• Understand of Java concepts such as JMX, memory usage and how to profile/monitor these
• Experience of operating with a level of autonomy while still working as part of a SCRUM team
• Experience of the full software delivery lifecycle and systems environments; Source control tools and methods
• A good understanding of Financial Services industry sectors, specifically Wealth, Private Banking & Commercial Banking
• Good analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Clear, concise communication (written and verbal)
• Awareness of ServiceNow tool and CMDB / referential
• Good understanding of change methodologies and frameworks (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps)
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders: Project Management, Testers, Application Support, Development, Infrastructure teams
• Good awareness of regulatory, governance deployments.

Experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience.

Additional Information,

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