VP - Public Cloud - Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Citi’s Operations & Technology organization (O&T) is driving an innovative Cloud First strategy that works to optimize the IT environment, reduce complexity, and implement high degrees of automation to enable more agile application delivery. We aim to give Citi businesses a competitive edge by leveraging cloud scale architectures and enabling new infrastructure economics. O&T operates as a technology company focused on implementing scalable and innovative next gen technology solutions that will shape the future of global banking.

Role Description:

The Public Cloud Platform Engineer will be instrumental in implementing the architecture and the engineering processes and best practices to enable application hosting in container orchestration environments in public cloud. The role is responsible for owning the front-end development of one or more products, building, maintaining and operating the product through all phases of its life. The ideal candidate has knowledge in modern Micro Services architectures and deployments, and cloud infrastructure and data services. The role requires a talented technologist with experience architecting and defining engineering processes and best practices to both enhance our public cloud development and ensure success in migrating applications and services to the cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable application hosting in container orchestration environments
• Deploy and manage large-scale Kubernetes clusters
• Engineer and secure container orchestration solutions (self-managed platforms and Cloud Native)
• Understand information modeling, data structures and algorithms
• Participate in the front-end development for one or more products and collaborate with visual/interaction designers, other engineers, and product managers to launch new products, iterate on existing features, and build a world-class user experience
• Incorporate testing and instrumentation into your development workflow to ensure a product is reliable and measurable
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment processes
• Understand maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies that exist in support of your system’s software. These dependencies will include but not limited to hardware, platform, operating system, performance and load requirements, as well as contingencies with upstream and downstream systems
• Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation
• Implement best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and efficiency

Basic Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Hands on experience developing and engineering software and consumer facing applications
• Suggest methods and new technologies for increasing the effectiveness of changes and of general production support improvements
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture
• Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based environment using Azure/AWS/GCP (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience in developing software using languages such as Java, Python, C++ or Ruby.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture applications and cloud-based services, preferably AWS.
• Experience with modern SDLC tools, branching strategies, and ability to develop and enforce CI/CD practices
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX, Docker

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Certification, and/or OpenStack Administrator Certification a plus. (Other cloud-related certification also a plus.)
• Experience with TDD and automated UI testing frameworks
• Experience working with any design frameworks
• Experience with mobile web development
• Developer level operations proficiency — ability to set up a machine, knowledge of networking, familiarity with load balancers, hypervisors, CDNs, etc

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources
   

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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