Cloud Security Engineer, AVP

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Job Overview

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the cloud is highly complex and often considered as a new security perimeter.   Many cloud breaches today exploit misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in IAM.   Citi is looking for an engineer to join the Cloud Security Engineering team to define cloud IAM strategy and implement IAM services and controls to enable Citi to leverage public cloud securely and efficiently.    The Cloud Security Engineering role is an intermediate level position responsible for a variety of engineering activities including requirement analysis, design and development of public cloud infrastructure and solution. The successful candidate should have experience in enterprise software development and foundational knowledge in AWS and GCP

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional cloud teams in Citi including security, infrastructure, service engineering and business application teams to define and implement IAM solutions required to build, support and consume services in public cloud.  

• Define and develop preventive guardrails, detective controls, and automated alerts and remediation to ensure IAM implementation in all cloud environments are compliant with Citi’s cloud security standards and policies.

• Build automation software to enable self-service access requests and remediation for over privileged or unused access.

• Define SDLC for IAM roles and policies and develop IAM CI/CD pipeline with automated testing and validation.

• Define governance process and develop tools for managing cloud IAM inventory and entitlement review.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge in GCP or AWS platform services including Security, Networking, Compute, Storage, Monitoring & Logging

• Proficiency in Python, Java or Go

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code(IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

• Experience with container and container orchestration technologies

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in an Engineering or Developer role

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Ability to work independently, prioritize, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree in Computer Science or related field

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Jacksonville Florida United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$87,280.00 - $130,920.00

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.

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Mar 19, 2026

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