Java DevOps Engineer - Digital Assets (VP)

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Dublin; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Citi Dublin is seeking a Java DevOps Engineer to help build, harden and continuously improve the CIDAP platform. You will work with the CIDAP Engineering Team and Citi Infrastructure partners to ensure stability, performance and reliability at a global scale.

The role emphasizes design, automation, monitoring, and security across CI/CD pipelines and production environments, with hybrid work options and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps engineering with infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Experience with OpenShift, Docker, and YAML-based configurations.
• Automation scripting and scalable workflows.
• Knowledge of microservices security and design patterns.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (OTEL/Grafana/Kibana/Splunk).
• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and deliver integrations between CIDAP and Citi Infrastructure.
• Lead root-cause analyses for outages and performance issues.
• Automate infrastructure build and configuration to reduce manual overhead.
• Conduct security vulnerability assessments and implement remediation.
• Build cross-functional knowledge of business domains and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain internal knowledge base and docs.
• Assess risk in business decisions and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

DevOps

OpenShift

Docker

Automation

Microservices

GitHub

Oracle DB

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

YAML

OTEL

Grafana

Kibana

Splunk

Kafka

GitHub

Job description

Discover your future at Citi Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance – we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real‑world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech. We are looking for a talented and driven Java DevOps Engineer to join the Citi Integrated Digital Asset Platform (CIDAP) team. In this role, you will play a key part in building, hardening, maintaining, and continuously improving the Technology Infrastructure that underpins mission‑critical financial systems operating at a global scale. You will collaborate closely with the CIDAP Engineering Team and a broad network of Citi Infrastructure Partners, contributing to the full lifecycle of platform operations — from design and implementation through to advanced troubleshooting and issue resolution. Your work will be central to platform stabilization, performance optimization, and ensuring the highest levels of system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and deliver seamless integrations between the CIDAP platform and key Citi Infrastructure components, driving platform scalability and capability enhancements to meet both current operational needs and future business demands.
• Lead root cause analysis efforts for system outages, performance degradations, and application failures in lower and production environments, proactively surfacing emerging risks and drive timely, well‑defined remediation strategies to minimize impact and prevent recurrence.
• Proactively identify, drive the automation of infrastructure build and configuration through approved tooling, reduce manual overhead and ensure greater consistency, repeatability, and reliability across all environments.
• Conduct security vulnerability assessments and Infrastructure risk reviews across CIDAP services, deliver actionable mitigation recommendations and leading the implementation of robust remediation measures to strengthen the platform's overall security posture.
• Build and maintain deep, cross‑functional knowledge of how key Business domains, including architecture and infrastructure interconnect and collaborate to drive overarching business objectives, enabling more informed decision‑making and delivering well‑aligned technical solutions.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously refine internal knowledge base articles, FAQ guides, and technical documentation, ensuring teams have access to accurate, up to date reference material to environment setup, configuration, and day‑to‑day operational workflows.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Significant hands‑on experience in a DevOps Engineering capacity or an equivalent software engineering role, with a proven track record of delivering complex infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift administration, with comprehensive knowledge of Docker for building, optimizing, and managing container images, and strong proficiency in YAML based configuration management.
• Advanced scripting and automation capabilities, with the ability to design and implement robust, scalable automation workflows.
• Strong foundational knowledge of microservices architecture, including security considerations, design patterns, and implementation best practices.
• Extensive experience with GitHub, including branching strategies, merging workflows, and version control best practices.
• Solid experience in Oracle database administration and seamless application integration.
• Proven ability in configuring, maintaining, and optimizing Load Balancers for high‑availability environments.
• Hands‑on experience with alerting, monitoring, and observability tooling, including OTEL, Google Cloud Observability, Grafana, Kibana, and Splunk.
• Knowledge in messaging and event streaming platform – Kafka
• Knowledge in managing Certificates, Secrets, Keys and access controls.
• Experience in network connectivity and troubleshooting including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, ports, firewall, proxies and routing.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences; strong analytical and problem‑solving aptitude with a collaborative, solution‑oriented mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.

By joining Citi Dublin, 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 that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well.

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: €93,280.00 - €139,920.00

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