Lead, Resilience Engineer

Job Summary

• The Lead, Resilience Engineer will be responsible for designing, engineering, and managing our disaster recovery program.
• Your deep technical background and innovation will help us to achieve a disaster-less platform that will strengthen Northern Trust's reputation for people to trust, trust in clients, and commitment to key IT positions that make our business secure always and resilient for a company committed to an ever-professional mindset through crises, even disasters.

Key Responsibilities

• Disaster Recovery Planning, Design, and execution, including regular exercises to evaluate their impact on business continuity, and response measures.
• Business Continuity: Identify potential risks and create mitigation plans to minimize the impact on business continuity.
• Disaster Recovery Testing: Plan, execute, and validate disaster recovery exercises to validate the effectiveness of recovery plans and test recovery readiness at the local and national level.
• Coordination: Collaborate with IT, security, and related departments to ensure alignment between disaster recovery and security designs.
• Documentation: Maintain current documentation of disaster recovery processes, procedures, and related operating procedures.
• Roles and Responsibilities: Develop and provide training to employees on disaster recovery and business continuity practices to enhance preparedness.
• Tool Management: This applies to all solution activities, strategies, emerging technologies, and cybersecurity projects.

On-Premises & Data Center Resilience

• Provide DR simulation for on-premises data centers including storage migration (Scale/Out), Scale-Down, Near-Term upgrades, failovers, simulated breaches, failback, performance tuning, and strategic migration.
• Drive power distribution/ownership strategies where VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Veeam.

Compliance, Audit & Assessment

• Maintain 3rd-party compliance with ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, and IT practices and applicable industry regulations (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO27001, etc.).
• Drive all DR-based exercise planning, documentation, time management, and reporting.
• Regular audit preparation and self-assessments.
• Facilitate governance frameworks involving DR, security, risk management, and incident management across a range platforms.

Testing, Auditing & Continuous Improvement

• Plan and execute full-scale (and tabletop, functional, and full-fault) periodic real production-disruption environments at least twice each year.
• Track and chart outcomes of each testing, monitor each release for continuous fixes.
• Implement cross-engineering initiatives and pass the practice to strengthen in-house resilience awareness.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT infrastructure, with at least 5 years focused on Disaster Recovery (Business Continuity, etc.) for digital businesses
• Deep expertise designing and executing DR solutions in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including commercial/private environments
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Veeam, Azure Site Recovery, VMware (DRaaS), etc.
• Demonstrated experience building and continuing continuous service recovery, including immediate storage and other recovery readiness.
• Professional certifications in enterprise DR planning (BCI, DRIE or others) preferred, or proven sector experience.
• Role context for candidates in industries like Banking, Fintech, Healthcare, Retail and BFSI (financial services).

Benefits & Culture

• As a Northern Trust pioneer, you will be part of a flexible and supportive work culture, which has a strong history of innovation and results.
• Moreover with an increasing volume of clients, employees can accelerate your career, and you can bank on investing for work life as the place for best of your contribution.
• Philosophy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust's culture; it is an essential element of our culture. Embodying these values will help us lead and work to deliver for the great good of our communities.