Public Cloud Senior Platform Engineer

PowerToFly; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank in Belfast is seeking a Public Cloud Engineer to implement cloud architecture using AWS, GCP, and Azure. The ideal candidate will have developer experience in multiple languages such as Java and Python, familiarity with cloud platforms, and skills in developing CICD pipelines. The role includes substantial automation and security responsibilities, along with opportunities for mentoring team members and working within an agile, dynamic environment, providing a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Discretionary annual performance-related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Access to learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Developer experience across multiple programming languages.
• Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Experience building CICD/SDLC pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Implement cloud architecture for application hosting in public cloud.
• Emphasize automation and security in designs.
• Lead technology decisions and mentor team members.

Skills

Java

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

CICD / SDLC pipelines

Tech lead experience

Job description

Citi’s Operations & Technology organization (O&T) is driving an innovative Cloud First strategy that works to optimize the IT environment, reduce complexity, and implement high degrees of automation to enable more agile application delivery. We aim to give Citi businesses a competitive edge by leveraging cloud scale architectures and enabling new infrastructure economics. O&T operates as a technology company focused on implementing scalable and innovative next gen technology solutions that will shape the future of global banking.

The Public Cloud Engineer will implement cloud architecture (on AWS, GCP and Azure) that enables the infrastructure (compute, database network, storage, observability) required for application hosting in public cloud using Citi’s engineering processes and best practices, with particular emphasis on automation and security by design.

Experience essentials (Non-negotiable):

• Developer experience across multiple languages – Java, Python etc.
• Cloud platforms, more than once cloud AWS, GCP or Azure,
• Has built CICD / SDLC pipelines for example Terraform and Harness
• Performed as tech lead within a specialist domain eg. tech lead for container or data platforms

Value add experience:

• Networking, transit gateways, proxy, NSG, SG,Load Balancers, VPCs
• Cloud security (wiz, sentinel)
• Compute in cloud Amazons EKS, Faregate, Lambda, Google GKE, AKS, Argo CD, Storage S3, EFS, EBS or GCS, blob
• Data services: Cloud Databases, Machine learning, analytics
• Messaging Pub/Sub services such as Kafka, Rabbit MQ
• Cache / search technologies such as Elasticache / Elastic search
• API services such as apigee / kong
• Elementary, Observability and monitoring
• Identity and access management, dynamic keys and certificates
• Test driven development
• Cloud real world experience on expert level, anywhere, not just a bank

Characteristics:

• Can lead technology decisions and align team outcomes
• Enjoys mentoring and working with remote teams
• Outcome orientated, can self organize and help team members break down work
• Leads by example
• Proactive, grabs tickets and asks for help when needed
• Team orientated, ready to jump in and help
• Agile, can context switch is prepared to pivot when needed
• Likes to solve problems, questions the why to understand the what.
• Enjoys learning, interested in growing the technology skills

What you can expect:

• Massive scale, working to deliver one of the largest cloud programs in the world
• To engineer platforms and services across Google and AWS
• Working in an agile empowered team to solve complex problems
• Engineering emergent technologies to create value across Citi

What we can offer you:

By joining Citi in Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit ourGlobal Benefitspage to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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