Senior DevOps Engineer, Vice President

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 168,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Mississauga to automate and streamline our infrastructure and software delivery pipelines. You will ensure reliability, scalability, and security while collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization.

The role requires a strong technical background, proactive problem-solving, and excellent collaboration skills. Time Type: Full time; Location: Mississauga, Canada.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in technology roles.
• Senior DevOps Engineer with strong infrastructure, automation and delivery focus.
• Experience bridging development and IT operations with collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure management planning for physical, cloud, and virtual resources.
• Build and configure resources, manage access, SSLs, and secrets.
• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines and tooling stacks.
• Set up and monitor application/infrastructure telemetry and logging.
• Implement security best practices in deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with Linux, Windows, Middleware, and ECS teams to resolve issues.
• Automate manual processes and drive operational efficiency.

Skills

Version Control

CI/CD Tools

Code Quality

Security Tools

Containerization & Orchestration

Operating Systems

Monitoring & Logging

Scripting

Configuration Management

Cloud Platforms

Networking

Soft Skills

Education

Tools

Jenkins

TeamCity

Tekton

Harness

GitHub

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Splunk

Ansible

Terraform

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Citi, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between software development and IT operations. You will be responsible for automating and streamlining our infrastructure and software delivery pipelines, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our applications. This role requires a strong technical background, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with various teams across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management & Planning:
  • Conduct annual forecasting of infrastructure needs for Physical, Cloud, Managed VM, ECS Clusters, SAN, NAS, Object Storage, ORAAS, and MAAS.
  • Liaise with CTI teams for procurement of necessary infrastructure resources.
  • Execute infrastructure resource builds and configurations, including increasing hardware resources, managing access entitlements, setting up software stacks, configuring storage mounts, onboarding to Cyberark, setting up SSH keys, creating/renewing SSL certificates, managing secrets for ECS, setting up DNS aliases/Load balancers, and configuring Autosys Jils.
• CI/CD Automation & Tools Management:
  • Maintain and optimize CI/CD automation tools and platforms, including Source Code Repository (Github), Build Tools (Tekton), Code Quality (SONAR), Task Tracking (JIRA), Knowledge Management (Confluence), Deployment (Harness), and Scheduling (Autosys).
  • Coordinate the setup of application and infrastructure monitoring (ITRS/Prometheus/Grafana) and log monitoring for Kibana, Splunk, and OSE Monitoring.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery, enabling faster and more reliable software releases.
• System Reliability & Security:
  • Responsible for EOL/EOVS remediation and vulnerability remediation/patching on all software packages.
  • Implement security best practices in infrastructure and deployment workflows.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance and system reliability.
• Collaboration & Support:
  • Act as a strong team player, coordinating with multiple teams (Linux, Wintel, Middleware, ECS) to facilitate infrastructure setup and timely issue resolution.
  • Possess knowledge of ITSM ticketing processes.
  • Maintain accuracy of data on the Application Inventory Platform
• Automation & Process Improvement:
  • Automate manual processes and possess strong knowledge of infrastructure automation.
  • Develop and implement solutions to streamline operations and enhance efficiency.

Skills & Qualifications

• Version Control: Bitbucket or Github (preferred).
• CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Teamcity, Tekton, or Harness (preferred).
• Code Quality: SONAR.
• Security Tools: Knowledge of Black Duck, Checkmarx.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Red Hat OpenShift, AWS EKS, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Operating Systems: RHEL Linux administration (strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration is crucial).
• Monitoring & Logging: Splunk, Grafana, ELK Stack (Kibana)
• Scripting: Proficiency in Python and other scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Shell) for automation.
• Configuration Management: Ansible (preferred), or other tools like Terraform, Puppet, Chef.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is beneficial.
• Networking: Understanding of networking, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Experience: 6-10 years

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $120,800.00 - $170,800.00

Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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