✦ Luna Orbit — Cloud & Infrastructure

Principal, Cloud Engineer

at Northern Trust

📍 Chicago, IL Hybrid 💰 $137K – $233K USD / year Posted March 13, 2026
Salary $137K – $233K USD / year
Type Not Specified
Experience mid
Exp. Years 7+ years
Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Category Cloud & Infrastructure

This role involves designing and supporting cloud-native, containerized, and serverless workloads across multiple cloud platforms, ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.

  • Design cloud-native architectures
  • Implement containerized solutions
  • Build CI/CD pipelines
  • Ensure security and compliance
  • Troubleshoot cloud workloads

Focus on cloud-native architecture, container orchestration, serverless compute, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

The ideal candidate is a senior cloud engineer with 7+ years of experience designing cloud-native architectures, managing containerized and serverless workloads across multiple cloud providers, and implementing security best practices to ensure reliable and scalable cloud operations.

Design and implement cloud-native architecturesExperience with containers and serverless platformsBuild CI/CD pipelinesImplement security and governance in cloud environmentsTroubleshoot runtime issuesOperate container platforms and serverless services
Experience with multiple cloud providers (AWSAzureGCP)Monitoring and observability tools
DockerKubernetesOpenShiftECSAKSGKEAWS LambdaAzure FunctionsGoogle Cloud FunctionsPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchDatadog
Cloud-native architecturesContainersKubernetesOpenShiftECSAKSGKEAWS LambdaAzure FunctionsGoogle Cloud FunctionsCI/CD pipelinesAutomationMonitoringLoggingTracingPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchDatadogSecurity best practices
Cloud-native architecturesContainersKubernetesOpenShiftECSAKSGKEAWS LambdaAzure FunctionsGoogle Cloud FunctionsCI/CD pipelinesAutomationMonitoringLoggingTracingPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchDatadogSecurity best practicesIAM policiesSecrets management
CollaborationMentoringProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamwork
Industry Finance
Job Function Senior Cloud Engineer
Cloud-native architecturesContainersKubernetesOpenShiftECSAKSGKEAWS LambdaAzure FunctionsGoogle Cloud FunctionsCI/CD pipelinesAutomationMonitoringLoggingTracingPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchDatadogSecurity best practicesIAM policiesSecrets managementCloud platformsServerless computeResilient workloadsServerlessSecurity

Lack of experience with cloud-native architectures, No experience with containers or serverless platforms, Unable to work in a hybrid environment, No knowledge of security best practices in cloud

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