Senior DevOps Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Citi is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join its Technology team and play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing the application systems and platforms that power critical business operations on a global scale. In this role, you will apply deep technical expertise across CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and observability to deliver resilient, high-quality software systems.

Responsibilities

• Your work will directly shape how Citi's engineering teams build, ship, and monitor production services across a complex and high-impact technology environment.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Git, Tekton, and Harness to accelerate and standardize software delivery across engineering teams.
• Build and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes and OpenShift using Helm, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and production ready.
• Architect and maintain observability solutions — including log aggregation with Splunk and Elastic/Kibana, and metrics monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana — to give engineering teams real-time visibility into system health.
• Evaluate complex technical problems across application systems, business processes, and delivery pipelines, and develop engineering solutions that meet specific business requirements.
• Collaborate with development teams, business users, and technology stakeholders to define operating standards, resolve technical issues, and recommend engineering improvements.
• Develop and enforce security measures across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring system design supports compliance with applicable policies and technical standards.
• Act as a technical authority for junior and mid-level engineers, providing guidance, code review, and hands-on support to elevate team capability.

Requirements

• Qualifications & Skills 4 to 8 years of experience in software engineering, systems development, or DevOps with demonstrated delivery in complex technical environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling, including Git-based workflows, pipeline configuration, and automated build and deployment processes.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift for container orchestration, including Helm chart development and cluster management.
• Working knowledge of Linux administration and shell scripting to support automation, system configuration, and operational tasks.
• Experience delivering and managing software projects end-to-end, from planning and design through to testing and production deployment.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities and adapting to changing technical or business requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• Beneficial Skills & Qualifications Experience with AWS cloud services, including infrastructure provisioning, managed services, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Background in observability engineering, including setting up APM tools such as AppDynamics or Datadog to monitor application performance in production.
• Experience defining and measuring SLOs and SLIs for production services, translating reliability targets into actionable monitoring and alerting strategies.

Benefits

• At Citi, you will work on engineering challenges that operate at genuine global scale, within a team that values technical excellence, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
• This is an environment where your expertise has direct impact on production systems used by clients and businesses worldwide.
• A hybrid working model, with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely, giving you flexibility alongside meaningful in-person collaboration.
• Exposure to a broad and modern technology stack spanning cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and advanced observability tooling.
• The opportunity to operate with real autonomy, taking ownership of technical decisions and driving engineering standards across the team.
• Access to learning and development programmes that support ongoing growth in cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering disciplines.
• A competitive total compensation package, including financial well-being benefits and access to Citi's broader employee support resources.
• Wellbeing and family support programmes are designed to help you maintain balance and thrive both professionally and personally.

Apply now to bring your DevOps engineering expertise to a global technology team where your work shapes the reliability, security, and performance of systems that matter. ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi . View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.