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Job Description

About Northern Trust: Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.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 that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve! We recognize the value of inclusion and diversity in culture, in thought, and in experience, which is why we are honored to receive the following awards in 2021: Gender Equality Index Member, Bloomberg Top Financial & Banking Company, Black EOE Journal, Hispanic Network Magazine, Professional WOMANS MagazineWe d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of America s best banks and most sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.DescriptionThe Resiliency Engineer engages in all facets and activities of the Resiliency program with specific focus on developing a push button DR strategy, automated infrastructure component failover, integration with application start up and shutdown, and end to end failover. They will be responsible for recovery plan development, testing and compliance. Solid understanding of infrastructure automation and recovery capabilities is required. The Senior Resiliency Engineer will coordinate and participate in regular DR activities supporting various business capabilities.Responsibilities The Senior Resiliency Engineer engages in all facets and activities of the Resiliency Program with specific focus on:

• Establishing and advocating Resiliency Program strategy while executing activities with IT teams.
• Push Button DR automation of applications and business capabilities.
• Implementing policies and procedures for disaster recovery planning.
• Managing recovery plan development and maintenance activities to ensure plans are current and compliant
• Managing the test lifecycle supporting and facilitating testing with infrastructure and applications teams in alignment with DR strategy
• Highly experienced in engaging infrastructure and application teams to collaborate on discussions and requirements for disaster recovery.
• Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, application and operations environment structure
• Able to work successfully as a member of a team through collaboration and support.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external resources.
• Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues, ability to solve problems and address obstacles.
• Capable of managing multiple assignments/priorities in a fast-paced environment using discernment, organization, time and objectives management.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
• Provides project leadership, when needed, for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, developing and maintaining the Resiliency program.
• Knowledge of Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Event Management practices
• Understands that Resiliency professionals can be called in to support test exercises or unplanned outages off regular business hours as necessary
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; capable to report progress, status and other pertinent information to partners and leaders

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of automation experience
• 4+ years of DR experience
• Proficient in Ansible
• VMWare vRO experience
• Service Now experience a plus
• Familiarity with Fusion a plus

Additional Information,

Keyskills :
gender equalityevent managementit infrastructuredisaster recoverycrisis managementfinancial servicesproject leadershipcollaborative workbusiness continuity