• The DevOps Principle Engineer is a highly skilled and hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping the strategic direction and technical implementation of DevOps practices, tools, and platforms for experience platform services. This role demands deep technical expertise, a proactive approach to adopting cutting-edge technologies, and a strong focus on security, reliability, and automation. The Principle Engineer will establish new design patterns, lead the migration of legacy tools and pipeline stacks to modern & standard enterprise tools, and drive process re-engineering initiatives to enhance agility and efficiency.A key focus will be on the adoption and integration of Lightspeed Enterprise (Tekton, Harness), GitHub Enterprise, advanced AI & productivity tools such as RoD, Renovate, Github Copilot, Devin.AI, and a comprehensive Dev Sec Ops toolkit including Snyk, Checkmarx, and Gitleaks. This role will be instrumental in developing robust frameworks, conducting proof-of-concepts, and certifying new technologies to ensure that the organization's pipelines adhere to industry best standards, enabling zero-touch deployments and 100% CI/CD automation with enforced quality gates for secure and standard coding practices. The Principle Engineer will be accountable for defining technology strategy across regional teams, ensuring alignment with global Citi Technology standards, and fostering cohesive collaboration to build reliable, scalable, and high-performance pipeline services.Key Responsibilities- Define and champion the technical strategy for DevOps platforms and services, aligning with global Citi Technology standards and organizational objectives.
• Lead the design and implementation of new technologies and design patterns for experience platform services, with strong emphasis on driving the migration of legacy pipeline infrastructure to modern, scalable, and secure platforms.
• Establish and certify best practices for containerizing existing applications for deploying onto Internal or external cloud platforms.
• Develop cohesive interpersonal working relationships with peers and team members, Engineering partners and internal customers fostering a collaborative environment for achieving the delivery expectations.
• Lead efforts in process re-engineering within the DevOps domain to eliminate bottlenecks, streamline workflows, and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead the Team of Junior engineers and team members located in Chennai and Pune.
• Work as Site-lead for Devops team in India to drive adoption, share knowledge and provide key management updates to local site leadership.
• Drive Adoption of standard tools and pipelines inline with organizational targets.
• Lead the support of application production releases, focusing on zero-touch deployments and automated rollbacks.
• Optimize pipeline services for reliability, responsiveness, runtime footprint, and recoverability using performance engineering and memory profiling tools.
• Implement quality gates for both secure and standard coding practices, ensuring compliance and best practices before production releases.
• Actively partner with engineering teams for solution design, validation and implementation, shar the feedback, Issues and best practices with engineering and development teams.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing initiatives (e.g., Developer Connect Series, Design Connect, brown bags).
• Understand the business impact of systems and make judicious technical trade-offs between short-term needs and long-term business objectives, driving mindful discussions with customers and peers.
• Generate adoption metrics and reports to be shared with partners and leadership teams.
• Work with CISO , Audit & compliance organizations to participate in internal / external audits and provide support as required.
• Work with geographically distributed partners, engineering teams and internal customers across US, Europe, Singapore and India timezones.
  Qualifications- Education: Bachelor’s/University degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience in DevOps platform services with subject matter expertise in principle engineering.
• Technical Acumen:
• Proven hands-on expertise in establishing and implementing new technologies, design patterns, and frameworks.
• Passion for engineering, automation, standardization, and best practices.
• Deep understanding and extensive hands-on experience of software development tools, CICD Pipelines and deployment strategies and their underlying principles.
• Expertise in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Open Shift).
• Experience with scripting languages (Python/Bash shell) for dynamic cloud infrastructure automation.
• Soft Skills: Self-motivated, excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across diverse teams.
• Risk Management: Ability to appropriately assess risk in technical decisions, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and compliance with Citi policies and regulations.
• Key Technical Skills:
• Application Platforms and Runtimes: Spring Boot, NPM, Java/J2EE,
• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift
• SDLC and CI/CD Tools & Pipelines: Proficient with JIRA, Bitbucket, Github Enterprise, Jenkins, Teamcity, u Deploy, Tekton, Harness, RLM, Release-on-Demand (ROD)
• Familiarity with Mainframe Devops tools such as IBM DBB, Wazi Deploy would be added advantage
• Must have extensive experience with Dev Sec Ops tools such as Sonarqube, Checkmarx, Snyk and gitleaks.
• Must have hands-on working experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Strong knowledge and experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, App Dynamics, ELK/Graphana.
• Good understanding of immutable infrastructure, Policy-as-Code, Agile, and Continuous Delivery approaches such as Canary , Blue-green deployments
• Must be able to understand, write and troubleshoot springboot APIs, NPM programs , Ansible Playbooks and scripts (shell, JS, python)
• Must be user of AI tools such as github copilot, Devin.AI and should be able to write prompt to generate code and automate.

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Technology

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Applications Development

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Full time

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