Public Cloud Services – Lead Engineer – Vice President

CitiIrving, TX, United States

2 days ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer - VP- IRVING

Join to apply for the Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer - VP- IRVING role at Citi

Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer - VP- IRVING

1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Join to apply for the Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer - VP- IRVING role at Citi

The Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer is a senior level position responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition and deployment of hardware, software and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework.

Responsibilities :

Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap
Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals
Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
Recommend product customization for system integration
Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services
Advise or mentor junior team members
Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications :

6-10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering role

Primary Theme - Secure AMI & VM image engineering, virtualization layer, serverless compute automation

Cloud Focus - Virtualization & Image-Focused Engineer

Kubernetes Skills - - Node-level expertise (Kubelet, container runtime tuning) - Building / optimizing custom node AMIs for EKS / GKE - Understanding of node pool scaling & upgrade compatibility - Debugging node performance & bootstrapping

Infrastructure as a code - Terraform (strong), Packer or EC2 Image Builder (must)

Language - Go, Python, shell scripts

Testing and Validation - Terratest for infra testing, BDD (Behave / pytest) , Image pipeline testing (vuln scans, CIS hardening)

Serverless and event driven - Deep understanding of event driven patterns

AWS : Event Bridge, Lambda, Step Functions

GCP : Cloud Functions, Eventarc, Pub / Sub

Nice to have

Ansible, Multi-cloud image pipelines, OS performance tuning

Education :

Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree preferred

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. (Citi will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization for this position). Position is based in Irving, TX. Candidate must be located within commuting distance or be willing to relocate to the area

Job Family Group : Technology

Job Family :

Systems & Engineering

Time Type : Full time

Primary Location :

Irving Texas United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range :

$125,760.00 - $188,640.00

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.

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and / or contact the recruiter.

Anticipated Posting Close Date :

Jul 30, 2025

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and / or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.

View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Banking

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Citi by 2x

Virtualization Engineer / Wireless Networks

Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer - Hybrid -Irving) - SVP

Irving, TX $156,160.00-$234,240.00 1 day ago

Dallas, TX $128,400.00-$215,800.00 4 days ago

Cloud Engineer- Virtualization and Image Focused - AVP

Irving, TX $96,400.00-$144,600.00 1 day ago

High Performance Computing and AI Infrastructure Engineer, Sr

Frisco, TX $156,000.00-$296,000.00 1 month ago

Dallas, TX $150,000.00-$160,000.00 4 days ago

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

Create a job alert for this search

Lead Cloud Engineer • Irving, TX, United States