About the Opportunity
Are you a seasoned technology leader with a passion for building cutting-edge enterprise products and a hands-on approach to engineering? Join Citi's Cloud Technology Services (CTS) team and be part of our commitment to transform Citi technology leveraging game-changing Cloud capabilities to drive agility, efficiency, and innovation. We're providing our businesses with a competitive edge by leveraging public cloud scale and enabling new infrastructure economics.
As the Public Cloud Engineering Practices Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our public cloud strategy. You will be part of a team that continues to deliver big! From building cloud base High Performance Compute (HPC) platform to run huge risk calculation, enabling Citi to leverage GenAI at scale, all the way to enabling payments solutions, this team is at the forefront of innovation.
Role Description
The Public Cloud Infrastructure Developer will be instrumental in implementing the architecture and the engineering processes and best practices to enable the foundational infrastructure (Accounts, network, compute, storage, observability) required for application hosting in public cloud. This role is responsible for development of microservices, automate infrastructure provisioning and orchestration in public cloud. The ideal candidate has experience in professional software development, designing and creating highly available cloud systems, and can implement cloud strategy. Advanced industry knowledge is key, as well as knowledge in building an engineering organization. The role requires a talented technologist with experience engaging with application developers throughout the full development life-cycle – from inception and design to deployment, operation, and iterative development.
Responsibilities:
Automate foundational infrastructure for public cloud (Accounts, Network, Compute)
Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable our cloud first strategy
Provide developer-friendly cloud onboarding, account creation and management for supported cloud providers
Ensure compliance to regulations and policy by implementing accurate requirements traceability
Develop, cascade, and enforce development and engineering best practices using modern SDLC that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code
Develop and advocate for new cloud native solutions to undefined system needs, where no solution is available within the technical community
Drive client satisfaction by identifying and developing process improvement and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance of solutions to operations roadmap
Ensure requirements/tasks from technology departments and/or end users are communicated to stakeholders
Exhibit in-depth understanding of engineering concepts and principles
Qualifications:
At least 6+ years of Strong hands-on Java development experience (Java 8/Spring Boot 2.0)
Experience implementing secure REST services/microservices
Experience with CI/CD build pipelines and toolchain (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Harness, Tekton, Maven, Artifactory, Jira)
Experience with container technologies (Docker) and Kubernetes platforms (e.g. EKS, GKE, OpenShift)
Knowledge on middleware & distributed messaging (Kafka)
Databases (MongoDB and SQL)
Familiarity with Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture
Hands-on expertise in development and deployment of code over public clouds and container environments
Preferred Qualifications
Understanding of public cloud native services(AWS/GCP)
Experience with TDD (Junit, Jasmine, Karma, cucumber, selenium) and automated UI testing frameworks.
Experience with IaC deployment tools and languages (Terraform)
Experience with Security - OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect with JWT Bearer Tokens and Identity Framework. X509 Cert Security / Windows Security with both Java and .NET applications, trust chain security and SAML (SSO)
Experience with ELK, Splunk and Prometheus.
Experience with workflow engines (BPM, Camunda, jBPM, etc).
High Proficiency in Open-Source Technologies/Framework/Tools
Education:
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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Job Family Group:
Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:
Applications Development------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
Full time------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location:
Irving Texas United States------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$125,760.00 - $188,640.00
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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Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Jan 13, 2026------------------------------------------------------
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