Senior Cloud Platform 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.

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer who combines strong software engineering principles with extensive, hands-on experience in cloud and Kubernetes environments. This role is pivotal in architecting and delivering foundational Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks, automation services, and reusable cloud blueprints. The ideal candidate will empower engineering teams across Citi to adopt AWS and GCP securely and efficiently at scale, focusing on platform tooling and internal service integration rather than direct application development or CI/CD pipeline management.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and enhance reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and modules using Terraform for AWS and GCP services, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Establish and promote best practices and design patterns for IaC to be used across the engineering community.
• Define, implement, and maintain Kubernetes and Helm standards to simplify the deployment of secure, cloud-integrated workloads.
• Develop Python-based automation services, command-line interfaces (CLIs), validators, and diagnostic tools to improve developer workflows and enhance platform reliability.
• Engineer and evolve the end-user adoption of internally engineered solutions through the creation of blueprints, templates, documentation, and reference architectures.
• Define and manage the service contracts and integration interfaces consumed by application and platform teams.
• Liaise with other teams, including application, security, and networking, to align on architectural decisions and resolve integration bottlenecks.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and optimization efforts for platform components spanning IaC, cloud services, and Kubernetes.
• Mentor other cloud and platform developers on best practices for IaC, Kubernetes patterns, Python tooling, and secure cloud design.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a software engineering, cloud engineering, or platform engineering capacity.
• Deep, hands-on experience with authoring Terraform modules and a strong interest in advanced module framework design.
• Practical experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP), including provisioning via IaC, IAM design, storage patterns, and networking fundamentals.
• Extensive, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm for defining and managing application workloads.
• Proficiency in Python for developing automation services and platform tooling.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, modular design, and writing clean, maintainable code.
• Deep understanding of microservices concepts and the patterns for how distributed applica