Assistant Vice President - Cloud Security Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Citigroup Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Singapore seeks a Cloud Security Engineer to join its SRE team. This role focuses on architecting tools for Cloud security, collaborating with engineering teams, and ensuring operational excellence. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience, a bachelor's degree, and expertise in Python, Linux, and container technologies. This position is full-time and encourages teamwork and partnership for optimal performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• High motivation and good interpersonal skills.
• Experience with SLIs, SLOs, and observability capabilities.
• 2+ years of experience in Python programming.

Responsibilities

• Work across Container and Secrets products in Cloud environments.
• Build tools and platforms for SRE capabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Engineering and Operations.
• Own production-level incidents until resolution.

Skills

Python

Linux scripting

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk

Jenkins

Openshift

Job description

Overview of Citi:

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. 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. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting‑edge ideas, best‑in‑class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

The Team:

The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) is responsible for looking after the cyber security of all of Citi’s technical assets. It has several new and exciting programs utilizing cutting‑edge cloud and container technologies, with a view to ensuring that our cyber security is best in class and offers reassurance to our wider business lines and clients alike.

The job:

This role sits within the Cloud Security team which is responsible for Private and Public Cloud Security, Container Security as well as strategic Secrets products. As we look to expand our program, we are creating a consolidated SRE team that will work across our portfolio of products.

As a member of the SRE team, you will be responsible for working towards our SRE strategy and operating model, as the team embarks on a multiyear transformation journey.

Engineering excellence and secure by design are important principles for our CISO organisation. You will raise the bar on both our existing products but also the frameworks and capabilities that are engineered within the SRE team.

Partnership and collaboration are key. You will work closely with the existing Engineering and Operations teams, building out the SRE capability alongside evangelising SRE best practice and techniques for the wider organisation. Reducing TOIL will be paramount to your success.

What the role covers:

• Working across Container products and Secrets products, across Public and Private Cloud, as well as Cloud native specific products
• Architecting and building tools and platforms that provide capabilities for SRE
• Collaboration with multiple stakeholders and partners across Engineering and Operations as well as partner teams within the wider Citi organisation
• Actively owning production level incidents till resolution

Job Skills/ Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Highly motivated self‑starter with good interpersonal and communication skills. Able to communicate efficiently.
• Certification or formal training in site reliability engineering concepts and practices would be beneficial.
• Prior experience working towards SLIs, SLOs and observability capabilities
• 2+ years experience in Python alongside Linux based scripting languages.
• Experience working on observability, logging and metrics toolsets
• Experience of k8s and container technologies such as Docker, Openshift and EKS.
• Experience with Secrets products such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk beneficial but not essential.
• Experience with CICD tools such as terraform, Jenkins, Ansible.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

Time Type:

Full time

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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