Azure Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company founded in 1889, is a global financial institution known for its excellence and integrity. We are currently seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms while collaborating with Java engineering teams.
• Own core Azure infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, security) and enable high-velocity delivery of JVM/Spring Boot services on ACA (Azure Container Apps), App Services, and serverless runtimes.
• Partner with software engineers, SRE, security, and architecture to ensure applications are reliable, observable, and compliant with enterprise standards (RBAC, tagging/naming, and Entra ID group models).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or SRE with Azure (networking, compute, storage, identity, security).
• Strong hands-on skills with ACA (Azure Container Apps), App Services, Functions, Private Endpoints/Private Link, Key Vault, App Config, SQL Server.
• Familiarity with JVM tuning, Spring Boot microservices, packaging, containerization, and deployment to ACA/App Services; serverless batch patterns via Functions time triggers.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform/Bicep), GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, and GitOps workflows.
• Security fundamentals: RBAC, Entra ID, MFA, secrets management, and compliance controls.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with messaging and data platforms (Event Hubs, Service Bus, Kafka/Confluent) and analytics (SQL Server).
• Observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana), performance testing, and cost optimization.
• Certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400.

Benefits

Salary range is $99,600 - $169,200 USD. Northern Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. The company also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.