Job Mode: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Infrastructure spokesperson during Disaster Recovery events, facilitating communication across Northern Trust groups.

• Understand and assess connections between applications and underlying infrastructure mechanisms for cloning solutions and validating recovery scenarios.

• Represent Infrastructure towers in DR meetings, providing updates on capabilities and issues.

• Coordinate high availability and failover resiliency mechanisms across application and infrastructure stacks.

• Manage DR Plans and DR testing, ensuring timely updates and successful execution of tests.

• Serve as POC for DR testing and incident management across Infrastructure teams.

• Integrate DR automation solutions, reducing overall recovery time for Infrastructure services.

• Lead and support innovation and technology experiments across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

• Analyze and communicate technical and operational data during DR events for risk management and process improvements.

• Ensure quality and accuracy of Disaster Recovery documentation (plans, training, procedural artifacts).

• Coordinate and guide comprehensive testing strategies, leveraging data analytics and automation.

• Remediate infrastructure gaps identified by audits or internal DR assessments.

• Share insights and learnings from Infrastructure meetings with management.

Key Skills:

• Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning and Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

• DR Testing (including failover and recovery validation)

• Infrastructure Architecture and Application Development Architectures

• Technical Problem Solving and System Analysis

• Automation experience (including DR automation)

• High Availability & Failover Mechanisms

• Cloud Technologies (private, public, hybrid)

• Security Concepts (Replication, Backups, Access Management, Network Segmentation)

• Stakeholder Management and Cross-functional Collaboration

• Regulatory and Compliance Frameworks (for disaster recovery)

• Agile Development environment experience

• Project Management and Communication skills

• Data Analytics for risk management and process improvement

• Experience with VMware vRO, ServiceNow, and Fusion (a plus)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline.

• 7+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer at an enterprise scale.

• 5+ years of Disaster Recovery experience, including testing and planning.

• 5+ years of project management and technical leadership experience.

• Practical experience in both technology infrastructure and application development architectures.

• Experience in Agile environments and the integration of DR automation solutions.

• Familiarity with financial or regulatory domains is a plus.

• Knowledge of VMware vRO, ServiceNow, and Fusion is advantageous.