Database DevOps Engineer - Citi

About the Role

Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 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

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to Citi's Loan's processing Team.
By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview
You will be joining the Application Infrastructure DevOps team supporting the Citi Finance Application - Finance Full Suite. Our team is directly responsible for the health, availability, scalability, and ongoing modernization of the core application platform that underpins Citi's global financial operations and reporting workflows.
Currently, the platform operates across a hybrid infrastructure comprising on-premises environments (Red Hat OpenShift container platform, virtual machines, and bare-metal physical servers) as well as cloud-hosted environments. Our diverse data ecosystem includes Oracle, OraaS, MongoDB, IBM Object Store, and Snowflake (hosted on Private Cloud - AWS).

What you'll do

• Manage Hybrid Database Infrastructure: Oversee the day-to-day reliability, performance, capacity, and upkeep of database systems hosted across on-prem physical/VM servers, OpenShift clusters, and Cloud VMs (Oracle, OraaS, MongoDB, IBM Object Store, and Snowflake).
• Lead Cloud Migration Initiatives: Plan, architect, and execute migrations of legacy databases and Big Data platforms from on-premise infrastructure to AWS, GDP (GCP Data Platform), and Snowflake (Private Cloud - AWS) with zero or near-zero downtime.
• Implement AI & Agentic AI Solutions: Develop intelligent agents and automated solutions for real-time telemetry monitoring, automated index/query tuning, proactive anomaly detection, and automated self-healing workflows.
• Containerize & Modernize Workloads: Work with Red Hat OpenShift and containerized database/data services to streamline microservice-to-database connectivity and lifecycle management.
• Ensure Resiliency & Disaster Recovery: Maintain and validate robust High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) frameworks, automated failovers, and backup/restore procedures to meet stringent enterprise finance RTO/RPO targets.
• Automate via IaC and CI/CD: Build reusable Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and Python automation scripts for routine DBA tasks, patch management, security scanning, access management, and automated release verification.
• Security & Compliance Governance: Enforce strict data governance, data encryption (at rest and in transit), audit trail validation, and vulnerability remediation across all database environments.
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• Hybrid Infrastructure & Containers:
• Solid understanding of hybrid infrastructure environments: bare-metal physical servers, Linux VM servers, Cloud VMs, and Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes container platforms.
• Cloud Database Migrations: Proven track record of architecting and executing complex database migrations to AWS and GDP (Google Cloud Platform).
• AI & Automation: Experience building or utilizing AI / Agentic AI / Machine Learning tools or custom Python scripting to automate database operations, telemetry analysis, or performance tuning.
• Scripting & IaC: Advanced proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Performance Engineering: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot slow queries, analyze execution plans, eliminate memory/IO bottlenecks, and tune distributed workloads.undefined

• Direct Impact on Enterprise Finance: Work on the critical platform engine powering Citi's global Finance Full Suite, directly contributing to the firm's balance sheet and regulatory operations.
• Cutting-Edge Tech Exposure: Hands-on experience modernizing traditional enterprise databases with OpenShift, hybrid cloud environments (AWS, GDP, Snowflake), and Agentic AI automation.
• Career Growth & Continuous Learning: Access to industry-leading technical certifications, Citi's internal learning platforms, and structured leadership and engineering pathways.
• Collaborative & Inclusive Culture: A diverse, agile engineering environment that prioritizes collaboration, technical excellence, and work-life flexibility.
• Competitive Rewards: Comprehensive co