DevOps Support Engineer

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  Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

  Role Overview:
   

  Our Institutional Clients Group (ICG) DevOps is a global organisation striving to provide measurable competitive advantage to our Institutional Clients Group business by delivering modern best practices and automated tooling that empower our development and operations teams to deliver value to the business more quickly, more frequently, more reliably and at larger scale than ever before. 

  As a member of the ICG DevOps support team you will build and roll out Citi’s key pipeline technology, used by 2000 different applications and 15,000 users. This is an excellent opportunity to gain expertise in many different tools and technologies; make an impact in a large organization; and gain exposure to the ICG business and technology initiatives. We are continually looking for ways to improve processes, better integrate our systems and automate as much as possible in order to Deliver Value to our Clients.

  If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the untried, here is the opportunity. In a supported, resource-rich, vibrant co-working environment, working with an ecosystem of globally interconnected teams, realising a broader mission of enabling growth and economic progress on a scale you will not find anywhere else.

  Responsibilities:

  • The Application Support Senior Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applications. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness improvements to help us and the business succeed
  • Maintains application systems that have completed the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm
  • Manages, maintains, and supports applications and their operating environments, focusing on stability, quality and functionality against service level expectations
  • Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.
  • Perform same day risk reconciliations
  • Identifies ways to maximize the potential of the applications used
  • Assess risk and impact of production issues and escalate to business and technology management in a timely manner
  • Ensures that storage and archiving procedures are in place and functioning correctly
  • Formulates and defines scope and objectives for complex application enhancements and problem resolution
  • Reviews and develops application contingency planning to ensure availability to users.
  • Partners with appropriate development and production support areas to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements
  • Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production
  • Engages in post implementation analysis to ensure successful system design and functionality
  • Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment. Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact

   

  Qualifications:

  • Significant experience in an Application Support role
  • Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications
  • Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn

   

  What we Offer:
   

  As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer;

  • 23 days paid annual leave
  • Award winning pension scheme,
  • Life assurance and
  • Private medical insurance with Bupa healthcare.

  In addition, we offer a competitive maternity, paternity and adoption leave scheme and employees also have the option (provided they have a student loan from the Student Loan Company) to divert saver and company match contributions to their student loan. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer employees a number of lifestyle benefits including; on site restaurant and coffee shops, online shopping and concierge service and subsidised clubs and societies.

  Our select benefit package offers you the opportunity to customise your benefits according to your own lifestyle preferences and includes corporate discounts, memberships and a range of additional extras.
   

  Our vast range of diversity networks and on site multi faith room demonstrates Citi’s commitment to growing a diverse workforce.