Cloud Engineer - Public Cloud Container Services (GCP) - VP

Cloud Engineer - Public Cloud Container Services (GCP) - VP

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

About the opportunity: We're hiring cloud engineers who think beyond infrastructure—as problem solvers, builders, and product thinkers. If you're strong in GCP or AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Python/Java, and love automating at scale, we want you.

Join Citi's Cloud Technology Services (CTS) team and be part of our commitment to transform Citi technology, leveraging game-changing Cloud capabilities to drive agility, efficiency, and innovation.

You will be part of a team that continues to deliver big! Designing and managing the platform that enables the automated deployment of containerized platform globally across multiple public clouds. Our cloud platforms enable the business to deploy critical workloads, from building cloud base High Performance Compute (HPC) platform to run huge risk calculation, enabling Citi to leverage GenAI at scale, all the way to enabling payments solutions, this team is at the forefront of innovation.

Team/Role Overview

The ideal candidate will have experience in professional software development. The role requires a developer with strong technical skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders and partners throughout the full development life cycle, from inception and design, to deployment, operational management, and iterative refinement.

As a Cloud Engineer within Public Cloud Container services team, you will be instrumental in developing the platform, tooling, and services required to support the deployment of Cloud platform resources. The Public Cloud platform team is based in multiple locations across the globe and comprises of Architects, Cloud Engineers, DevOps engineers, and Full Stack Developers. Cloud Engineer - Public Cloud Container Services are based in the UK and Poland.

What You'll Do

• Engineering Excellence: Follow engineering best practices and industry standards using modern tooling that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure, and policy as code
• Design and Build: Deliver tooling and capabilities needed to enable our cloud first strategy
• Innovate and Automate: Address infrastructure challenges with creative solutions and a product-focused mindset
• Partner and Collaborate: Build relationships across Citi's technology teams to align with business goals and priorities
• Champion Compliance: Drive compliance with applicable standards, policies, and regulations, always assessing risk with Citi's reputation, clients, and assets in mind

What We'll Need From You

• Solid experience in cloud engineering with deep Terraform and GCP/AWS knowledge
• Expertise in Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), and helm charts
• Familiarity with GitOps tools like ArgoCD/Flux
• Strong in Python or Java, Go is a plus (for custom tooling/controllers)
• Passion for automation, clean code/DRY, and solving complex problems
• Experience working in regulated industries (bonus)

We Offer

By joining Citi London, 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 discretionary 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 our Global Benefits page 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.