Principal - Cloud Foundations Engineer

About the role

Northern Trust seeks a Principal Cloud Foundations Engineer in Pune to design and maintain core cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient operations for development teams. The role involves establishing landing zones, automation, and governance guardrails across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. This is a full-time position based in Pune, India.

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise landing zones and shared cloud services
• Manage account/subscription structures across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Develop and maintain reusable IaC modules (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or Pulumi)
• Build CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment and updates
• Implement identity and access management (IAM) best practices
• Configure and maintain guardrails such as policies, SCPs, and monitoring controls
• Design and support VPC/VNet architectures, routing, firewalls, VPNs, and interconnects
• Deploy monitoring, logging, and auditing tools across the environment

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 15+ years of total work experience in Technology Infrastructure
• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or platform operations
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (Azure and AWS)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform preferred

Nice to have

• Experience operating cloud platforms in regulated enterprise environments
• Experience with multi-cloud environments
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Knowledge of service mesh, API Gateways, or Serverless Platforms
• Background in FinOps (cloud cost optimization practices)
• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect)

Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).