Automation – Release Engineer

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.

Technology is seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join the Enterprise CI/CD team as an Automation/Release Engineer working closely with Git Hub Enterprise and Azure Dev Ops. 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 Dev Ops CI/CD and has the technical expertise to succeed.

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.

Ability to think analytically and troubleshoot escalated issues. Oversees the health of the above mentioned tools by keeping current with upgrades and patches and by resolving integration issues with associated tools. Qualified candidates must possess a strong sense of leadership; strong analytical skills, excellent communication skills, good technical abilities, and a can do attitude. Quick to learn and apply knowledge.

• Administrating Git Hub Enterprise & Azure Dev Ops (permissions, API integrations, pipeline scripting, limitations, etc)
• Docker
• API integration with an eye for security
• ITSM process experience utilizing ticketing tools like Remedy or Service-Now
• Scripting using Shell, Python, Power Shell

• Application release automation or code migrations utilizing Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, 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.

• 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
• General networking/internet communication protocols
• .Net
• Remote desktop administration
• Extensive Java JRE/JDK knowledge

• 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

$99,600 – 169,200 USD

Salary range is a good faith…