Senior DevOps Engineer (AVP) – London

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

In the world of Capital Markets electronic trading, performance, agility, and reliability are crucial; latency beyond the micro- or even nano-second realm just won’t cut it! A core team of expert engineers within Citi have developed a framework, toolset and collection of components for building self-healing, scalable, high performance, asynchronous, event driven, Java Microservices based solutions. This framework, known as Ambrosia, has solved all the hard problems of failover, high availability, performance and scalability, so that application developers can focus on those pieces of the puzzle that solve the business problem and take performance to the next level.

The overall objective of this role is to assist in building and deploying solutions and supporting tooling that improves developer productivity and the overall developer experience at Citi.

Role Overview/What will you do:

• Perform DevOps role managing build management, automation during SDLC.
• Work on creating Helm charts with Kubernetes and managing k8's clusters and roles.
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
• Develop scripts for automation.
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Working on Kubernetes Clusters.
• Working on ways to automate and improve build and release processes.
• Deployment Orchestration and Troubleshooting.
• Taking care of critical upgrades and vulnerabilities.
• Advise technical leadership on DevOps best practices and pragmatic enhancements.

Key Skills and Experience required:

• A strong understanding of Linux, networking, source control, scripting, databases, cloud platforms and the software delivery process is essential.
• You will be a highly motivated self-starter who is comfortable taking on new challenges and picking up and learning new technologies.
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles.
• Hands-on experience on Docker, Kubernetes along with Helm charts.
• Good knowledge on scripting languages and tools development.
• Good to have knowledge on Redhat OpenShift.
• You will be comfortable working with Linux and be familiar with standard developer tooling, such as Git, BitBucket/GitHub, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• You will have a knowledge of build pipelines, CI/CD and the pathway to production.
• You will be able to triage and troubleshoot build issues, and help other developers understand similar issues on their build pipelines.
• Problem solving attitude and collaborative team spirit.

Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:

• Knowledge of deploying applications on the OpenShift environment.
• Finance experience is helpful but not essential; what we're looking for is the intelligence and flexibility to tackle diverse technical challenges, and a drive to make things work better on both a technical and process level.

Education:

• Degree educated or similar experience operating in a similar role.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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.