Network DevOps Engineer -VP

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.

Job Overview:

The Network DevOps 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:

• Lead and support large migration from existing network monitoring platform to new application observability stack using Grafana ecosystem

• Contribute to technical design of projects and work alongside architects and other engineers to deliver solutions that align with company vision and growth

• Collaborate with key stakeholders; architects, engineers, and support personnel to deliver solutions that align with the company’s goals and vision.

• Prepare and maintain up to date design, standards, and documentation for network observability and diagnostics tools

• Develop strong relationships with all IT partners across the globe.

• Product Ownership responsible for the development, management and lifecycle of network related products or services.

• Define Product roadmaps, outlining key features, milestones and timelines.

• Risk Management identify potential risks to the product, such as security vulnerabilities or technical challenges and help to develop mitigation strategies.

Qualifications:

• Advanced Linux skills including shell scripting

• Experience with network or application observability tools

• Experience with SNMP polling network or other platforms with Grafana or Telegraf preferred

• Elastic or Splunk indexer for logging pipeline configuration

• Time series data base experience. Prometheus or InfluxDB preferred

• Basic network platform knowledge like Cisco IOS or Arista EOS preferred

• Alert management with Prometheus Alert manager preferred

• Developing Data Retention policies with any of the following platforms:

  • Prometheus

  • InfluxDB

  • Grafana Mirmir

  • Grafana Loki

• Developing Grafana Dashboards and Menu Navigations but Splunk experience is acceptable as well

• Experience with coding/scripting/automation/orchestration platforms (Python, Ansible), including interfacing with APIs is preferred

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift network policy, ingress/egress control, service meshes is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or other CICD tools

• Essential multi-tasking capability

• Project Management skills preferred.

• Deep understanding of security be