DevOps Lead Engineer - VP

Posted Feb 1

Full Job Description

Organization Overview:

Citi Market Operations Technology is currently at a pivotal point in its evolution and journey to implement a target operating model. We take pride and are passionate about our People and our culture. We are invested in people and their development. We are transforming and simplifying our operating model and creating an exciting environment which encourages diversity of thought and inclusion.

We are a dynamic, global and diverse Organization, supporting operations areas that have a presence in over 60 Countries. Our Technology groups develop and implement a wide range of applications that support the Operations groups which are core to the success of the Markets business and has significant impact across the lifecycle of a Trade by providing innovative products and solutions. We partner extensively with a range of internal stakeholders including product aligned Middle Office groups, Settlements, Margin, Asset Servicing, Listed Derivative & Commodities Operations. We support an extensive range of Capital Markets products and services including Fixed Income (FX, Rates, Credit, Muni, Cash and Derivatives) where Citi is consistently a dominant top 3 player in the market, Equity (Cash, Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Futures, Listed Derivatives, FXPB) where Citi has a significant growth program to continue to build out its capabilities and services; and Syndicates where we support both FI and EQ new issues and IPOs. We play a key role in supporting our global clients to ensure they have a first-class experience in service performance and strategic partnership.

We have re-imagined how to provide technology and service in our domain through the alignment of our team vision, culture, and aggressive retirement plan for legacy applications and adoption of a micro-based containerized cloud environment. We encourage our people to create, explore and be adventurous whilst taking measured risk, adopting safe practices to protect the firm. Data lineage and optimization is core to how we develop our eco system. We are growing our capabilities using artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine learning.

Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace. We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuous evaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm and our reputation.

We work closely with our external global peers, partners and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry.

Job Purpose:

Markets Operations Technology team is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with experience in leading DevOps and Infrastructure team for our firm strategic distributed Data Processing platform. Person in this role will be responsible for upgrading and defining the DevOps Processes and Infrastructure support in line with CITI’s Development and Infrastructure Maturity Models to support current and future requirements of a critical initiative involving central data processing platform to house critical transactional data from multiple business processes and asset classes and make the data available over Enterprise Search Engines and Data Fabric.

This is a Vice President role within the ICG Markets Tech team. You will be the Lead DevOps Engineer responsible for leading the DevOps team of 10 to upgrade, design and maintain the DevOps framework to support multiple applications within our firm strategic central data processing platform involving high volume transactional real-time data and high volume API traffic as Search Engine capabilities thereof.
This is a highly visible role for a key initiative wherein you would get opportunity to work on diverse infrastructure and continuously evolving technologies across middleware and backend, interact with many teams and stakeholders at senior level
This is a great opportunity to join a high performing, high profile and energized team.
This is a critical firm wide initiative.
You will also get the opportunity to liaise with key technology and product vendor partners across Markets Operations and Tech, and liaise with the Citi Technology Teams which would include several SaaS offerings and Hardware teams and also interact with the Technology Experts of different Product Vendors.

Responsibilities:

Complete Ownership & Responsibility for DevOps framework catering to 10+ applications within our High Volume Data Processing Platform.
Work closely with technology teams to ensure that the DevOps processes are robust and continuously upgraded to be inline with CITI’s various maturity models.
Provide thought leadership on how to enhance and improve the DevOps processes and Frameworks.
Troubleshooting Infrastructure Issue and bottlenecks along with Technology Teams.
Setting up Monitoring and Health check of different server and infrastructure components.
Provide continuous guidance to the DevOps teams on best practice, application integrations, system performance tests.
End-End management of ServiceNow SLTNs for provisioning and setup of new Hardware and Software.
Continuous Collaboration and co-ordination with teams spread across geography.
Lead a culture of innovation & experimentation, support full software lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches & delivery methodologies
Manage team of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for the team
Actively participate in brainstorming session with Technical Manager and other Senior Management groups and provide solid inputs to the team and ensure best practices are followed within the team.

Qualification and Skills:

10+ years of working as a Hands-On DevOps leader working on complex Realtime, Distributed, High Volume, Event Processing systems in a large organization, structuring, establishing, and leading multiple product-centric DevOps teams
Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent
Proven expertise in Leading DevOps Teams in complex high volume data processing systems.
Exceptional communicator who loves working with people, confident communicating at all levels from an individual team to the entire enterprise
5+ years’ experience in UDeploy, Teamcity, Jenkins and other build and CICD tools and pipelines.
5+ years’ experience in working with Docker/Openshift container based deployments.
Experience working in complex Software Installation and setups in Linux environment.
Experience working in Linux based systems is required.
5+ years Experience working monitoring tools like ITRS, AppDynamics, Kibana is must.
Experience with Openshift/Docker container based deployments is required.
Ability to debug and solve complex system issues in live production environment in the above mentioned technologies is a must

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States

Primary Location Salary Range:

$110,090.00 - $165,130.00

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