Network Automation Engineer – VP – Hybrid

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

About Our Team:

Citi Technology Infrastructure (CTI) provides the critical technical foundation for Citi’s operations and is responsible for delivering reliable IT solutions, scalable infrastructure services, and secure capabilities while creating a trusted customer experience and enabling Citi’s workforce to be the best for our clients. Making the bank simpler, greener, and better connected while powering it with trusted, well-secured data, and automating policy enforcement through code are all at the heart of our refreshed global strategy. Data Quality, Simplification, Environmental Stability, Automation, and Service Excellence are the key pillars and priorities on our strategic journey.

In CTI, we are focused on delivering the best for our clients, and we know that to do this we need a talented team with diverse experiences, backgrounds and skills.

Job Description:

This role is responsible for on-prem to cloud networking from taking part in technology assessments, configuration, deployments and life cycle management, as well as cloud management tooling, monitoring, and orchestration. The ideal candidate has experience in routing-and-switching, software development methodologies, designing and creating highly available designs and automation (IaC). Advanced industry knowledge is key, as well as knowledge in building scalable engineering solutions. The candidate will be a talented technologist with experience engaging with Cloud and Security Teams throughout the full development life-cycle – from inception and design to deployment, operation, and iterative deployments. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead new Cloud Networking solutions, where solution is currently not available for Citi's use

• Lead on-prem to Cloud network engineering and development - working in collaboration with the Cloud team

• Deliver the automation and capabilities needed to enable Cloud Network Services 

• Provide developer-friendly cloud onboarding, account creation and management for supported cloud providers 

• Ensure compliance to regulations and policy by implementing accurate requirements traceability 

• Provide cloud network services to enable a fast and resilient hybrid cloud with built in security capabilities 

• Develop, cascade and enforce engineering best practices using modern SDLC that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code 

• Provide technical leadership in the design of highly complex cloud systems  

Skills and Experiences:

• 5 plus years of relevant experience in an Engineering role

• Understanding of public cloud services adoption at scale.

• Expert level understanding of AWS/GCP native networking services such as AWS Transit Gateway, GCP Shared VPC, AWS Route53, GCP Cloud DNS, etc.

• Hands on experience with modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) and DevOps frameworks (Jenkins, LighSpeed, GitHub).

• Work with software development Citi's Cloud Networking Solution CNS (middleware platform developed in Java/Spring Boot), experience in Python, Golang is highly desirable

• Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) understanding.

• Familiarity with Agile Development, DevOps and SRE practices.

• Experience evaluating complex requirements and rationalizing into a consistent service offering.

• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, and Electronics as field of study.

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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