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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.\nWe’re seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer who can design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms- and collaborate effectively with Java engineering teams. You will own core Azure infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, security) while enabling high-velocity delivery of JVM/Spring Boot services on ACA (Azure Container Apps), App Services, and serverless runtimes. You’ll partner with software engineers, SRE, security, and architecture to ensure our applications are reliable, observable, and compliant with enterprise standards (RBAC, tagging/naming, and Entra ID group models).\nKey Responsibilities\nCloud Platform Engineering\nDesign and implement Azure landing zones and subscriptions with RBAC, Entra ID integration, MFA, and compliant tagging/naming standards; automate guardrails using policy and role assignments.\nBuild secure virtual networks, subnets, route tables, NSGs, and Private Endpoints/Private Link to isolate services and eliminate public exposure.\nProvision and manage compute/services: ACA (Azure Container Apps), Azure App Services, Functions, VMs, App Config, Key Vault, and SQL Server; define transition patterns for on-prem to Azure.\nEnable Java Application Delivery\nPartner with Java teams to containerize services, tune JVM (GC, memory), and deploy to ACA/App Services; standardize CI/CD pipelines and rollouts (blue/green, canary).\nImplement serverless schedules for Java workloads using Azure Functions (including time triggers) to simplify batch job orchestration.\nSecurity & Compliance\nEnforce secrets management with Key Vault, least-privilege access, and identity-based controls; integrate with enterprise RBAC/Entra ID groups.\nSupport data security patterns for analytics platforms (e.g., SQL Server) including workspace isolation, encryption at rest (SSE/CMK), and backup practices.\nReliability, Observability & Operations\nEstablish SLOs/SLIs, dashboards, and alerting via Azure Monitor/Log Analytics; implement autoscaling and cost controls.\nDrive incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems; implement resilience patterns (health probes, retry/backoff, circuit breaking).\nAutomate infrastructure with Terraform/Bicep, GitOps, and pipelines; maintain environment parity across dev/test/prod.\nGovernance & Architecture\nContribute design docs and runbooks; socialize standards for naming, tagging, and environment isolation; review app designs for cloud fit and security compliance.\nQualifications\nApplicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)\nMust-Have\n5+ years in cloud infrastructure or SRE with Azure (networking, compute, storage, identity, security).\nHands-on with ACA (Azure Container Apps), App Services, Functions, Private Endpoints/Private Link, Key Vault, App Config, SQL Server.\nStrong Java ecosystem familiarity: JVM tuning, Spring Boot microservices, packaging, containerization, and deployment to ACA/App Services; serverless batch patterns via Functions time triggers.\nIaC (Terraform/Bicep), GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, and GitOps workflows.\nSecurity fundamentals: RBAC, Entra ID, MFA, secrets management, and compliance controls.\nNice-to-Have\nExperience with messaging and data platforms (Event Hubs, Service Bus, Kafka/Confluent) and analytics (SQL Server).\nObservability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana), performance testing, and cost optimization.\nCertifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400.\nSalary Range:\n$99,600 - 169,200 USDSalary 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.\nWorking with Us:\nAs a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.\nMovement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.\nWe’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater\nReasonable accommodation\nNorthern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at .\nWe hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. 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