Cloud SecOps Developer, VP (C13)

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Team:

Our CloudSecOps team reduces the risk in Citi’s cloud and container security infrastructure through a variety of methods including Security Automation, Continuous Monitoring, and Red Teaming. We are seeking a Cloud SecOps engineer to help further enable Citi's secure adoption of private, hybrid, and public cloud platforms. This role reports to the Cloud SecOps Security Automation Manager and involves the development of tooling and automation to enhance the security posture of Citi’s cloud platforms and containerized workloads.

The Role:

The Cloud SecOps Developer is responsible for developing security automation to tackle a broad spectrum of challenges, which may include designing software to compile asset inventories, identifying security misconfigurations, measuring security coverage, conducting automated security assessments, and generating comprehensive reports and metrics on Cloud and Container infrastructure and workloads.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of highly skilled cloud security engineers to implement the strategic vision of our cloud security automation program
• Develop specialized cloud security automation solutions covering areas like: security assessment tooling, cloud inventory, security coverage, metrics and reporting, which will be leveraged as key security controls for Citi’s cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure / M365, etc.)
• Develop security automation efforts targeting containerized platforms (K8S, EKS, OpenShift)
• Build, maintain and enhance the team’s security automation infrastructure
• Implement testing, logging, error handling, and alerting to improve the resiliency of our security automation framework
• Maintain development standards / best practices for the team including technical documentation for all cloud security automation projects
• Collaborate and work closely with other Cloud Security teams to identify and resolve security gaps via automation

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience working with Cybersecurity in Cloud or Container environments, or equivalent related technical experience
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in software development (preferably with Python)
• Strong Proficiency with cloud development libraries such as Boto3, GCloud SDK, Azure SDK, and K8S SDK
• Familiarity with leveraging Cloud-Native development tools and services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Terraform, and Codepipeline
• Ability to handle, parse, and manipulate JSON data programmatically
• Proficiency in the Linux command-line interface and basic system administration
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies, supported by industry-accredited certification (CKA, CKAD, CKS, etc.)
• Experience in writing and deploying IaC (infrastructure as code) with Terraform, Helm, etc. via code pipelines
• Proficiency in DevSecOps practices and Software Development Lifecycle tooling and components
• Experience with collaborating across multiple business lines in a corporate setting or large scale environment
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously with high attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to engage with all levels of staff and management in a collaborative and professional manner

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent working experience
• Certifications:

Candidates must possess or be open to acquiring 1 or more of the following industry-accredited certifications within the 1st year of employment:

Cloud security certifications: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified Security Administrator Associate, AWS Security Specialty, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, etc.

Container/Kubernetes certifications: CKA, CKAD, CKS, etc.

Other security certifications: OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, GPEN, GCIH, GWAPT, etc.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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