CI Java DevOps Engineer - Digital Assets (VP) Citi · Dublin Ireland · DevOps & Release €93,280–€139,920 5d ago
Java DevOps engineer on Citi's Integrated Digital Asset Platform (CIDAP) team in Dublin, building, hardening, and automating the infrastructure behind mission-critical financial systems. Day to day: OpenShift/Docker platform work, scripting and automation, monitoring/observability, security reviews, and root-cause analysis of outages.
- Compensation
- €93.3K–€139.9K / yr
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Significant hands-on experience in a DevOps Engineering capacity or equivalent software engineering role
- Deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift administration
- Comprehensive knowledge of Docker for building, optimizing, and managing container images
- Strong proficiency in YAML-based configuration management
- Advanced scripting and automation capabilities
- Strong foundational knowledge of microservices architecture, security, and design patterns
- Extensive experience with GitHub (branching strategies, merging workflows, version control)
- Solid experience in Oracle database administration and application integration
- Proven ability configuring, maintaining, and optimizing load balancers for high-availability environments
- Hands-on experience with OTEL, Google Cloud Observability, Grafana, Kibana, and Splunk
- Knowledge of messaging and event streaming with Kafka
- Knowledge of managing certificates, secrets, keys, and access controls
- Experience in network connectivity and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, ports, firewall, proxies, routing)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related engineering discipline
Full description
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
Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance – we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real-world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech.
We are looking for a talented and driven Java DevOps Engineer to join the Citi Integrated Digital Asset Platform (CIDAP) team. In this role, you will play a key part in building, hardening, maintaining, and continuously improving the Technology Infrastructure that underpins mission‑critical financial systems operating at a global scale. You will collaborate closely with the CIDAP Engineering Team and a broad network of Citi Infrastructure Partners, contributing to the full lifecycle of platform operations — from design and implementation through to advanced troubleshooting and issue resolution. Your work will be central to platform stabilization, performance optimization, and ensuring the highest levels of system reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and deliver seamless integrations between the CIDAP platform and key Citi Infrastructure components, driving platform scalability and capability enhancements to meet both current operational needs and future business demands.
- Lead root cause analysis efforts for system outages, performance degradations, and application failures in lower and production environments, proactively surfacing emerging risks and drive timely, well‑defined remediation strategies to minimize impact and prevent recurrence.
- Proactively identify, drive the automation of infrastructure build and configuration through approved tooling, reduce manual overhead and ensure greater consistency, repeatability, and reliability across all environments.
- Conduct security vulnerability assessments and Infrastructure risk reviews across CIDAP services, deliver actionable mitigation recommendations and leading the implementation of robust remediation measures to strengthen the platform's overall security posture.
- Build and maintain deep, cross‑functional knowledge of how key Business domains, including architecture and infrastructure interconnect and collaborate to drive overarching business objectives, enabling more informed decision‑making and delivering well‑aligned technical solutions.