Virtualization and Image Focused Engineer

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Job Overview

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 frameworks.

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.