SRE Lead, Emerging Payments — Vice President

Citi

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 42,000 - 63,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Citi is seeking an experienced SRE Lead Analyst (Vice President) to drive a Site Reliability Engineering transformation for Emerging Payments. You will lead a global team, implement advanced observability, chaos engineering, and end‑to‑end automation to improve system stability, scalability, and performance for high‑throughput payments infrastructure.

The role focuses on reducing operational toil, enforcing Production Readiness, and partnering with architecture, Production, and business leads to

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Production Engineering.
  • Experience in real-time payments or critical financial systems.
  • Proven leadership of SRE transformations across hybrid/modern stacks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead SRE transformation and regional leadership for Emerging Payments.
  • Design and deploy unified observability across stacks.
  • Develop resiliency, auto-healing and chaos engineering strategies.
  • Reduce toil through automation and runbook automation.
  • Ensure Production Readiness and enforce NFRs for onboarding.
  • Collaborate with architecture and business leads to communicate health metrics.
  • Drive incident triage, recovery and continuous improvement.

Skills

SRE leadership
Observability
Automation
Kubernetes/OpenShift
Incident management
DevOps
Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ITRS
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
AppDynamics
Terraform
Ansible
Kafka

Job description

Citi is seeking an experienced SRE Lead Analyst (Vice President) to drive a Site Reliability Engineering transformation for Emerging Payments. You will lead a global team, implement advanced observability, chaos engineering, and end‑to‑end automation to improve system stability, scalability, and performance for high‑throughput payments infrastructure.

The role focuses on reducing operational toil, enforcing Production Readiness, and partnering with architecture, Production, and business leads to

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