Apps Development Group Manager (DEVOPS) - C14 - IRVING - P2502005338

Citi Funds Transfer Pricing (CitiFTP) is a global platform designed to execute Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) across all Citigroup businesses. FTP plays a critical role in determining the internal pricing of funds transferred between business units and treasury. It ensures that the revenues and expenses of each business are properly adjusted to reflect the costs and benefits associated with funding and liquidity risks stemming from asset and liability generation. CitiFTP will unify and streamline this process by providing a standardized, transparent, and consistent framework with strong governance and oversight.

The CitiFTP Team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior DevOps Manager to lead our DevOps function, drive automation, improve infrastructure reliability, and ensure smooth and efficient software delivery across the organization. This role is critical to building scalable systems, enabling fast-paced development, and aligning infrastructure goals with business priorities. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, collaborating with cross-functional partners across engineering, product, security, and infrastructure teams. The ideal candidate brings strong leadership, deep technical expertise, and a passion for continuous improvement in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, system monitoring, and deployment processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps engineering team; promote a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

• Oversee management of multi-test environments supporting large-scale Big Data applications, web services, and downstream integrations

• Own the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline implementation and optimization using tools like Jenkins, Harness, Tekton, GitHub, and BitBucket.

• Oversee the automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.

• Drive platform governance, automation, and performance optimization across containerized environments, leveraging OpenShift and Kubernetes.

• Collaborate with development teams to support Java, Spark, and Python-based applications, ensuring smooth integration into CI/CD workflows.

• Integrate and manage secrets and credential handling through Vault, ensuring adherence to secure DevOps practices and Citi's Developer Manifesto.

• Implement and monitor code quality and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, BlackDuck, and enforce development standards across the pipeline.

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems to improve system reliability and uptime.

• Define and track key performance metrics around deployment health, system uptime, build stability, and pipeline efficiency.

• Work closely with product engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security teams to align DevOps goals with Citi's Enterprise strategy.

• Research, recommend, and implement emerging tools and technologies to continuously modernize the DevOps ecosystem.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role.

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Harness, GitHub, BitBucket, RLM, Terraform, Ansible, and Tekton.

• Proficient in Java, Python, and Linux shell scripting for automation and tooling.

• Solid understanding of Spark and distributed data processing environments, Cloudera familiarity a plus.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration using OpenShift, ECS, and Docker.

• Familiarity with Vault for secrets management and secure credential handling.

• Experience with Ansible or similar tools for configuration management and automation.

• Strong knowledge of code quality and security scanning tools like SonarQube and BlackDuck.

• Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability best practices.

• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog).

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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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: $156,160.00 - $234,240.00

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.

Anticipated Posting Close Date: Apr 30, 2025

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