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.

We are seeking a Lead - Cloud Foundation Engineer to design, build, automate, and support secure, scalable cloud foundations and shared platform services. The role will contribute hands-on engineering expertise while leading technical delivery across landing zones, infrastructure automation, governance, networking, observability, and operational readiness.

The successful candidate will work closely with application, DevOps, security, network, and operations teams to deliver reusable cloud patterns, improve platform reliability, and enable efficient self-service adoption by engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Cloud Platform Engineering
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise landing zones and shared cloud services.
- Manage account/subscription structures, tagging, and policy structures across Azure and/or AWS.
- Develop secure-by-default and reusable infrastructure patterns for application teams.




- Build and enforce secure-by-default infrastructure patterns.

- Infrastructure as Code & Automation

- Develop, test, and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, with Terraform preferred; experience with Bicep or CloudFormation is beneficial.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure deployment, validation, and controlled change.
- Enable self-service provisioning through standard templates, automation, documentation, and guardrails.
- Use Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate operational tasks and reduce manual effort.

- Security, Governance & Compliance

- Implement identity and access management controls, role-based access, policy enforcement, and least-privilege practices.
- Configure and maintain cloud guardrails, policies, monitoring controls, and security baselines.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal security standards.

- Networking & Connectivity

- Implement and support VPC/VNet architectures, subnets, routing, DNS, private endpoints, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and hybrid connectivity.
- Contribute to resilient and scalable connectivity designs for shared and application platforms.
- Establish hybrid connectivity solutions with on-premises environments.

- Observability & Cost Optimization

- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting,



and auditing capabilities for cloud foundation services.
- Build dashboards to track cloud performance, security posture, and costs.
- Recommend and implement cost-saving measures.

- Collaboration & Enablement

- Partner with application, DevOps, security, architecture, and operations teams to support cloud adoption.
- Produce clear technical documentation, implementation guides, operational runbooks, and reusable standards.
- Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions and mentor junior engineers through design reviews and hands-on guidance.
- Communicate risks, dependencies, progress, and technical decisions clearly to engineering and management stakeholders.

Qualifications

- Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or platform operations with 8+ years of total work experience in Technology Infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience delivering and supporting production cloud environments in an enterprise setting.
- Experience leading technical tasks, small workstreams, or engineering deliverables, including coordination with cross-functional teams.

- Technical Skills

- Solid hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably Azure or AWS; working knowledge of the other is advantageous.
- Practical experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code design, version control, testing, and deployment practices.
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, inclu

📌 Lead, Cloud Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Northern Trust
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