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 Enterprise 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 Overview:

The Engineering Lead is responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, product certification, deployment of hardware, software and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team.

This role is responsible for supporting our VMware NSX environment including the implementation and ongoing support for internal and hybrid cloud, NSX environment builds and maintenance, and troubleshooting of the network virtualization infrastructure. Additional responsibilities include working with automation and updating products to install and maintain security updates and patches. A solid understanding of networking and knowledge of VMware NSX is a must for this position along with experience working in a large environment with a strong DevOps and SRE focus.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring network reliability and availability through well-planned and implemented solutions
• Improving network manageability and scalability
• Developing, maintaining, and supporting networks in NSX/NSX-T
• Monitoring the automation of network deployment and configuration, along with the integration of infrastructure (computer/storage) automation
• Monitoring integration with other software-defined networking technologies
• Supporting Build and Operational functions in Continuous Integration/Deployment, Provisioning, Orchestration, Configuration Management and Monitoring
• Effectively handle issues and escalations, as well as resolve production problems, reporting to management on status and technical matters
• Planning and execution of regular maintenance activities to continuously increase efficiency and scalability and improve speed of deployment
• Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) post restoration of service
• Provide technical/strategic direction to team members
• Review requirement documents, define hardware requirements and update processes and procedures as necessary
• Ensure ongoing compliance with audit and regulatory requirements for financial sector

Qualifications/Technical Skills:

• 5+ years' experience working with VMware on enterprise level with strong focus on network virtualization (VCP-NV and VCP-DCV certifications a plus)
• Strong knowledge of core networking topics such as TCP/IP routing & switching, SSL/TLS, and layer-4/layer-7 load balancing tools & techniques for web applications and services
• Experience working with network overlay technologies like VXLAN, OTV and EVPN/BGP
• Strong understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking tools and technologies (e.g., Ethernet, IP, ARP, ping, traceroute)
• Understanding of standards-based routing protocols (OSPF and BGP)
• Understanding of core load balancing principles as well as Transport and Application Layer principles (persistence, monitoring [TCP, HTTP, HTTPS], cookies, etc.)
• Understanding of network-based security (e.g., access lists) and security concepts (black list vs. white list)
• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, OpenShift) including Container lifecycle, pods, services, controllers, API, storage, security, networking, load balancing
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift network policy, ingress/egress control, service meshes
• Knowledge of challenges and solutions around network security topics such as firewalls, micro segmentation, and 'zero trust' approaches to network security
• Understanding of container runtime application architectures and methodologies including microservices, self-healing stateless applications, and serverless architectures
• Familiarity with CI-CD pipeline workflow and tools involved (bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, etc)
• Working knowledge of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud architectures and the capabilities and challenges involved with their implementation in cloud environment
• Passion for working with new technologies and a strong desire to always be looking for better solutions to problems
• Bonus if experience building and maintaining monitoring solutions for vSphere/NSX using vRealize Operations (VROPS) for reporting, troubleshooting, and capacity planning

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

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Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Systems & Engineering

Time Type:
Full time

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