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Cloud Application security lead

Job Req Id:
25893895
Location(s):
Tel Aviv, Israel
Job Type:
On-Site/Resident
Posted:
Aug. 04, 2025

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Job Overview

Cloud Application security lead is a Senior VP engineer with hands-on experience in building application security cloud solutions at the K8s level. Driving delivery of platform capabilities within the cyber domain supporting application needs for on-prem and cloud environments.

Driving Ownership areas - Bring strong cloud engineering expertise around application security but also k8s AWS, google continually keeping up to date on new gaps within application security and devsecops platform capabilities to be bridged and resolved .Able to deliver highly secure and superbly engineered code.
Identifying gaps within developers security platform and driving resolutions by developing components addressing the gaps including authentication and authorization , credential management , encryption , certificates management and more.

This position requires close collaboration and partnership with Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, as well as Authentication and Authorization Engineering teams.


About us
Engineering Excellence is a CTO formed organization/team of top-tier experts tasked with unifying existing and building new infrastructure to enhance the productivity (and happiness) of the 35,000+ developers they serve. The goal is to centralize and optimize these efforts in order to quickly deliver solutions to the community.

  • Quickly enable remediation for high-impact problems for developers
  • Unblock business application flows
  • Resolve world-wide developer problems, cyber security breaches in an effective centralized way 


Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical engineering leadership and hands on development working with key stake holders of cloud engineering and application security experts
  • Explore and resolve key application security gaps and drive their resolutions
  • Develop modules that resolve identified gaps in a centralized optimized manner such as: credential mgmt, authentication, authorization, end to end scanning tools
  • Act as an advisor and expert lead to various development teams across the company, to help them improve their expertise within cloud engineering and application security

Characteristics:

  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently as well as a team member with minimal oversight
  • Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
  • Able to negotiate and influence at all levels
  • Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
  • Strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to the broader team
  • Creative and innovative, brings different views to problems and provides new solutions Risk and security focused, putting diligent risk management and security at the core of everything they do

Experience:

  • Expertise of cloud engineering and application security, demonstrated by previous roles in the domain and industry certification
  • Good understanding of security capabilities supporting application development such as authentication, authorization, credential management, certificate management, encryption for on-prem and cloud
  • Understanding of container orchestration technologies
  • Hands-on experience developing high-performance solutions following Agile methodologies ideally backend Java experience
  • Containers K8s hands on experience understanding the lifecycle of a containers and integration with security boundaries-advantage
  • Experience in building  end to end solutions for the cloud domain in a secure manner
  • Familiarity with Java required ,advantage - GoLang , Node.js , authentication

By joining Citi Tel Aviv, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits

such as: 

  • Generous holiday allowance starting at 22 days
  • Private medical insurance packages
  • Employee Assistance Program 

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day.

We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. 

Apply to join our team!


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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Data Analytics

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Time Type:

Full time

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