Senior Unix Engineer

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior UNIX Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle of mission-critical UNIX platforms and services, while contributing to DevOps tooling, Git-driven workflows, hybrid cloud strategies with an automation mindset.

Requirements

• Proven ability to handle deep technical challenges, that have high visibility.
• Prior experience and exposure to UNIX engineering with deep expertise in large enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of centralized authentication/authorization.
• Proficiency in shell scripting (bash, ksh, sh); strong familiarity with Python, and Ansible.
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code principles, Git-driven config management, and CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions and Ansible / AWX
• Familiarity with automated validation, monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks.
• Passion for automating operations tasks, reducing technical debt, and building sustainable systems.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable in fast-moving, audit-heavy environments
• Diligent with ability to cross check / robust validation of outcomes and results
• Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration and contribution skills
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated sectors
• Exposure to hybrid cloud operations, containerization (e.g., Podman, Docker, Tanzu), or cloud-native UNIX alternatives.
• Familiarity with enterprise CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ServiceNow integration).

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture
• Movement 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
• Greater purpose and making a positive impact
• Reasonable accommodation
• Flexible working requirements