About the Role
Citi is seeking a Digital Assets Production Support & SRE Lead to ensure the reliability and operational integrity of critical digital asset platforms, including blockchain systems and digital wallets. This role involves serving as a technical authority to resolve complex platform challenges and drive system stability improvements, directly influencing the performance and engineering direction of Citi's digital asset capabilities at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead production support and site reliability engineering for mission-critical digital asset platforms, ensuring system availability, performance, and continuity.
- Own end-to-end incident management, from detection through resolution and post-incident review, using observability tools to minimize business impact.
- Identify and define system enhancements by analyzing platform logic, diagnosing failure root causes, and delivering scalable solutions.
- Partner with product owners, business analysts, and engineering teams to document system impacts, surface support requirements, and align on delivery priorities.
- Evaluate risk exposures, security vulnerabilities, and platform gaps, communicating findings and proposing mitigation strategies.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling using Python, Java, or equivalent languages to reduce manual intervention and improve observability.
- Act as a technical mentor to junior engineers, guiding workload allocation and sharing expertise.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of hands-on experience in production support, SRE, or platform engineering, with a track record of supporting high-availability, mission-critical systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in incident management and systems-level troubleshooting, including proficiency in Linux diagnostics and real-time or distributed system debugging.
- Practical experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including at least one of Splunk, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, OTEL, or GCO, applied to production environments.
- Scripting and automation capability in Python, Java, or a comparable language, with demonstrable examples of reducing operational toil or accelerating incident response.
- Strong SQL skills used for data investigation, platform diagnostics, and incident analysis across complex datasets.
- Demonstrated ability to lead requirement-gathering and system scoping efforts across multiple concurrent large-scale technology programmes.
- Clear, confident communicator across technical and business audiences, with the ability to translate complex platform issues into business impact and actionable recommendations.
Skills
- Splunk
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- ELK
- OTEL
- GCO
- Python
- Java
- SQL
- Linux diagnostics
- Distributed system debugging
- Blockchain-connected infrastructure
- Digital wallet systems
- Distributed ledger technologies
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Senior
Benefits
- Competitive financial wellbeing provisions
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Wellbeing support
- Family-oriented benefits
- Structured learning and development programmes
About the Company
- Citi operates at the intersection of financial services and emerging technology, offering the scale, tools, and cross-functional expertise to perform consequential work.
- Citi is one of the world's leading global banks.
Equal Opportunity
- Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Accessibility at Citi
- Citi’s EEO Policy Statement
- Know Your Rights poster.
