Lead AWS DevOps Engineer & Deployment Coordinator
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services. Founded in 1889, the company is known for its commitment to integrity, expertise, and service. With over 24,000 partners and a rich history of financial experience, Northern Trust serves the world's most sophisticated clients through leading technology and exceptional service.
Lead AWS DevOps Engineer & Deployment Coordinator Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced onshore full-time Lead AWS DevOps Engineer / Deployment Coordinator to own the DevOps architecture, guide deployment strategy, and partner closely with engineering, security, and operations teams. This role requires hands-on technical leadership and effective collaboration with the broader team to ensure reliable, compliant, and efficient application delivery, production stability, and well-governed release management.
Key Responsibilities
Own the DevOps and deployment architecture for the platform, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, driving best practices across cloud engineering, automation, release management, and operational support.
Partner effectively with development, security, QA, and operations teams to translate business and engineering needs into practical architecture and delivery plans.
Act as a lead resource who can work independently, influence decisions, and bring teams into alignment on tooling, processes, and technical direction.
Design, implement, and support AWS-based architectures, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
Collaborate with application teams on cloud adoption, architecture reviews, and operational best practices.
Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, aligned with enterprise standards.
Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (HCL) for AWS resources.
Coordinate and execute application deployments across environments, ensuring minimal downtime and controlled rollouts.
Contribute to pipeline modernization efforts and support transition planning where experience across multiple CI/CD platforms adds value.
Enforce cybersecurity policies and controls throughout the SDLC and deployment lifecycle.
Integrate and manage security tools including DAST, SAST, SCA, penetration testing tools, and Sonar.
Perform risk assessments for production releases and infrastructure changes, ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
Own and coordinate deployment activities leveraging CI/CD pipelines and ServiceNow.
Ensure all deployments follow ITSM and Change Management practices, including approvals, documentation, and rollback strategies.
Partner with stakeholders to plan releases across business and technical timelines.
Provide leadership during production incidents, ensuring timely triage, communication, and resolution.
Perform deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues and drive preventive actions.
Support Incident Management practices, ensuring SLAs, escalation procedures, and post-incident reviews are adhered to.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
Strong AWS solution architecture knowledge with hands-on cloud implementation experience.
Proven experience with Terraform (HCL) for infrastructure provisioning.
Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD for pipeline creation and management.
Strong expertise in deployment practices, including CI/CD and ServiceNow-based release processes.
Deep understanding of cybersecurity tools and practices, including DAST, SAST, SCA, penetration testing, and Sonar or equivalent code quality tools.
Solid experience in ITSM Change Management processes.
Proven ability to handle incident management, RCA, and production support activities.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to deep dive into complex production issues.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture discussions, make sound design decisions, and own end-to-end DevOps solutions.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team collaboration skills; able to work well with cross-functional teams and influence outcomes.
Nice to Have Experience
Experience with GitHub Actions is a plus; as we migrate off the current platform, experience across both GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions will be highly valuable.
Prior role involving release coordination or deployment ownership.
Exposure to Agile / DevSecOps operating models.
Ideal Candidate Profile
A lead-level engineer who can balance architecture ownership with hands-on delivery.
Comfortable partnering with globally distributed teams and bringing structure to complex releases and operational issues.
Able to coach others, create alignment across stakeholders, and drive improvements in tools, processes, and reliability.
Salary Range
$137,400 - 233,600 USD
The salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides 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. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
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 committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.