Secure Access Service Edge Engineer- VP

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.

Join our Engineering Team now and be part of our dynamically growing Citi Technology Team!

Within Citi, the Global Infrastructure Defense Security Engineering Team is focusing on designing, developing, testing and architecting Citi's next generation cyber security solutions across the globe.

In this role you will be responsible to research, develop and certify security strategies, products, architectures and best practices. You will also be responsible to define and influence key security strategy initiatives and deliver security solutions that will adhere to all enterprise security requirements with a potential to influence industry wide roadmaps.

As Secure Access Service Edge Engineer you will:

• Architect our future Internet Access design
• Develop performance monitoring dashboards for our Internet Access Infrastructure
• Actively work on global design to achieve Zero Trust principle
• Redesign existing Internet Access Policies
• Influence market leading vendor's roadmap through close relationship
• Write and publish designs, architecture standards, test results and best practice guides for the global audience
• Call out and identify risk and exposure as it relates to products and architectures from a security and threat perspective
• Proactively participate in enterprise security work groups and teams to come up with innovative ideas and drive them to execution
• Lead and influence a virtual global team, act as a senior subject matter expert for subject security technologies and disciplines

Ideal background:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Fluent English
• Strong unix / linux experience
• Scripting (Python/Perl/Bash)
• Experience with large scale monitoring systems
• Strong knowledge of Proxy functionality and Proxy features
• Hands-on experience in Internet Access policy and URL filtering policy creation/implementation/maintenance
• Good understanding of SSL/TLS
• Large Scale Network and Security design experience
• Experience in SASE implementation is a huge plus
• Experience with leading Firewall Vendor products (Traditional Firewall protection, mitigation techniques, IPS/IDS deployments)
• Working knowledge of Network / Routing technology
• University / College degree in any STEM area or equivalent industry/technology knowledge

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work on the internal security posture for a large financial institution and thus shaping the industry overall
• Exposure to a broad range of investment technology businesses and products
• Access to our word class testing lab with physical hands on using hundreds of devices in the IT security ecosystem
• Access to Citi's huge training database and subscription to external online training
• A socially active team and communities with diverse networking opportunities

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Systems & Engineering

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
Jacksonville Florida United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$113,840.00 - $170,760.00

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.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Apr 24, 2025

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