Site Reliability Engineering Lead, Vice President

Citi • New York, NY

5d

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced and motivated team member to support our AI and DevOps Platform Support team in North America. This role is responsible for contributing to the stability, reliability, and performance of our critical AI and DevOps platforms. The team supports a wide range of services, including multiple AI applications, developer tools, and CI/CD pipeline technologies used across the organization. The ideal candidate will help lead a team of SRE and Support engineers, facilitate incident and problem resolution, and collaborate with engineering and development teams to enhance platform services and supportability. The role includes short‑term planning and coordination of actions and resources within the team.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of relevant experience in a hands‑on technical or support leadership role.
• Experience contributing to architecture discussions and ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term maintainability.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders or technology partners.
• Demonstrated experience supporting IT service improvements or platform stability initiatives.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly.
• Experience supporting or contributing to technical roadmaps or operational workstreams.
• Experience participating in resilience‑related activities such as incident simulations, disaster recovery exercises, or stability testing.
• Ability to collaborate with cross‑functional support teams and technology groups.
• Strong organizational and workload‑planning skills.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate appropriately with relevant stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of Generative AI concepts preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD and configuration management tools preferred.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift or similar Kubernetes technologies preferred.
• Experience working with databases such as Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB, or Redis preferred.
• Experience writing or maintaining code in Java, Python, Go, or similar languages preferred.
• Hands‑on experience with modern observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of how application support contributes to the overall technology function and organizational objectives.
• Assist with vendor relationship management, including coordination with offshore managed services.
• Support efforts to improve service levels for end users by enhancing operational efficiencies and strengthening incident management, problem management, and knowledge‑sharing practices.
• Partner with development teams to guide improvements in application stability and supportability.
• Contribute to frameworks for managing capacity, throughput, and latency.
• Assist in defining and implementing application onboarding guidelines and standards.
• Support team members by fostering a collaborative environment and encouraging skill development.
• Participate in cost‑reduction efforts through Root Cause Analysis reviews, knowledge management, performance tuning, and user training.
• Participate in business review meetings to help align technology tools and strategies with business requirements.
• Ensure adherence to support processes and tool standards, and assist in enhancing processes to promote consistency and quality across the support program.
• Perform other duties and functions as assigned.
• Support platform leadership in defining the platform roadmap and partnering with engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Assist in executing resilience activities such as wargaming scenarios, chaos engineering tests, and disaster recovery drills.
• Contribute to automation initiatives aimed at reducing manual toil and improving platform efficiency.
• Support the enterprise‑wide observability strategy, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Maintain hands‑on familiarity with platform architecture and services as needed for operational support.
• Assist in overseeing the operational health of production platforms (including OpenShift, ECS, CI/CD), ensuring SLAs are supported and incident processes are followed.
• Help implement and operate effective monitoring and observability strategies to support proactive issue detection and system health assessments.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level