Public Cloud Engineer Vice President

Are you a talented Public Cloud Engineer looking for their next challenge? Do you have 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 a Cloud Engineer within the network team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our public cloud strategy.

You will be part of a growing 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.

What you'll do :

Technical Expertise : design and build highly resilient and scalable solutions that support the business requirements as part of the organisations public cloud strategy.

Engineering Excellence : follow engineering best practices and industry standards using modern tooling that enables CI / CD and favours automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code.

Collaborative Development : work with a talented team of cloud engineers and full-stack software developers.

Innovate and Automate : identify and develop automated solutions as part of continual improvement to reduce the time to market of cloud services, enhancing client satisfaction and delivering business value.

Cross-Functional Partnership : collaborate with teams across Citi's technology landscape to ensure alignment between public cloud initiatives and broader business goals.

Compliance Advocacy : ensure adherence to relevant standards, policies, and regulations, prioritizing the protection of Citi's reputation, clients, and assets.

What we'll need from you : You are a talented and experienced cloud engineer with a proven track record of infrastructure design, testing and automated deployment via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

­Cloud Engineering Expertise : You will have a deep understanding of public cloud network infrastructure services available in AWS and GCP. Ideally you will have experience of working with the resources and services below.

AWS Network Foundational Services :

VPC, VPC Subnets, VPC Route Tables, VPC Endpoints, Security Groups.

Direct Connect, Direct Connect Gateways Transit Gateway, Route53.

AWS Network Application Services :

Firewall, load-balancers, PrivateLink.

GCP Network Foundational Services :

VPC, Subnets, Cloud Router, Private Google Access.

Interconnects, Network Connectivity Centre.

GCP Network Application Services :

load-balancers, Private Services Connect.

General Network Theory :

Understanding of routing protocols especially Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Understanding of IP subnetting.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) :

In-depth knowledge of Terraform, experience with Python and Go.

Experience using automated testing via one of the following Terratest, Cucumber, PytestBD

Experience with IaC pipelines and services via one of the following Harness, Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub

The Public Cloud Engineer is responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition and deployment of hardware, software and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team.

The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework.

Responsibilities :

Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap

Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals

Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements

Recommend product customization for system integration

Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes

Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services

Advise or mentor junior team members

Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services

Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications :

6+ years of relevant experience in an Engineering role

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

Project Management experience

Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices

Demonstrated analytic / diagnostic skills

Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams

Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative

Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Proven track record of operational process change and improvement

Education :

Bachelor's degree / University degree or equivalent experience

Job Family Group : Technology

Job Family :

Systems & Engineering

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.

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and / or contact the recruiter.

Anticipated Posting Close Date :

Oct 30, 2025

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