Sr. Private Platform Infrastructure Engineer - VP

About Citi:

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 Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do. We keep the bank safe and provide the technical tools our workers need to be successful. We design our digital architecture and ensure our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. Our operations teams manage risk, resources, and program management. We focus on enterprise resiliency and business continuity. We develop, coordinate, and execute strategic operational plans. Essentially, Enterprise Operations & Technology re-engineers’ client and partner processes to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and controlled services.

Citi Technology Infrastructure provides the critical technical foundation for Citi’s operations and is responsible for delivering IT solutions, scalable infrastructure services, and secure capabilities while creating a trusted customer experience and enabling Citi’s workforce to be the best for our clients. Making the bank simpler, greener, and better connected while powering it with trusted, well-secured platforms and data, and automating policy enforcement through code are all at the heart of our refreshed global strategy. Data Quality, Simplification, Environmental Stability, Automation, and Service Excellence are the key pillars and priorities on our strategic journey.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve globally 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 Sr. Private Platform Infrastructure Engineer plays a critical role in fulfilling the firm’s commitment to safety and soundness by ensuring Citi delivers efficient and high-quality solutions and technologies, coordinating foundational macro technology strategies, ensuring Citi’s readiness to safely leverage new technologies, and making Citi a competitive destination for the best technical talent.

The Sr. Private Platform Infrastructure Engineer (VP) role is one of the key roles that exist on the team. In this role, you will be part of the global Private Platform Services Engineering team responsible for end-to-end solutions engineering and certification for virtualization products supporting our internal private cloud.

The position reports to the CTI Global Private Platform Services manager. The successful candidate will focus on designing, implementing, and maintaining virtualization private/hybrid platforms, with primary emphasis on VMware, VCF, Hypervisor, Nutanix, Containerization technologies and cloud-native solutions.

Job Overview:

The ideal candidate for Sr. Private Platform Infrastructure Engineer will have extensive hands-on experience in managing large-scale virtualization environments and cloud-native solutions. As a technical lead you will be responsible for a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition, and development of hardware, software, and network infrastructure in coordination with other Technology teams. The overall objective of this role is to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned frameworks.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering, proof of concept, deployment, and ongoing management of VMware, Nutanix, and Containerized environments.

• Design, certify, and implement highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions to support critical business applications.

• Ensure efficient resource utilization across virtual and cloud environments to meet performance, security, and availability requirements.

• Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline operations, reduce manual intervention, and improve infrastructure reliability.

• Utilize configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) to automate the provisioning and management of virtual, cloud, and containerized environments.

• Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to proactively detect and resolve issues across virtual, cloud, and container environments