Public Cloud – Forward Deployed Engineer (VP)

Overview

In this role, you contribute hands-on to Citi’s public cloud initiatives as part of the Cloud Technology Services team. You will help shape and execute cloud strategies, building scalable, enterprise-grade solutions across AWS and GCP. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to improve cloud service delivery, automation, and reliability, while enabling innovative workloads such as HPC and GenAI at scale. This is a hands-on, impact-focused position in a technology-driven environment that values collaboration and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretional annual performance-related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical contribution within a product team focused on public cloud container fleet management
• Collaborate with cloud engineers and full-stack developers to advance public cloud strategy
• Identify and implement automation to improve cloud service consumption and value
• Partner with other Citi teams to align cloud initiatives with business goals
• Contribute to defining and measuring service availability and reliability metrics

Key requirements

• Full-stack development with AWS and GCP focus
• Hands-on software development experience in Python, Java, and Go
• Experience with AI/ML concepts (prompt engineering, LLMs, RAG, semantic search)
• Knowledge of BDD testing (Cucumber, JBehave, Pytest-BDD)
• CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Tekton, Jenkins)
• Middleware and distributed messaging (Kafka)
• Databases (MongoDB and SQL)
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture
• Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Adaptability and strategic thinking

• Strong communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Adaptability
• Python
• Java
• Go

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