Job Description

The Object Storage Engineer is a strategic professional who closely follows latest trends in own field and adapts them for application within own job and the business. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external and occasional external Revise Create Job Requisition 04:00 PM 01/29/2021 Page 1 of 5 customers. The engineer will be required to test, evaluate, certify and provide engineering level support for solutions released for global consumption. The engineer is also expected to have necessary programming skills to automate test, build and deployment of a given product.

Responsibilities:

* Manage vendor relationship to ensure timeline delivery of new capabilities and quick resolution to operational issues
* Act as the subject-matter expert on object storage technology Evangelize object storage and drive adoption by providing education and technical assistance to application teams
* Drive certification effort for on-prem cloud storage offerings through hands-on contributions to automation
* Provides architectural vision for all IT systems, including those that support Internet applications, ensuring that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
* Develops architecture, strategy, planning, and problem solving solutions on an enterprise level. Interfaces across several channels, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects.
* Maintains continuous awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and acts as a sounding board or consultant to aid in the development of creative solutions.
* Depending on project scope, may be accountable for end-to-end results including such items as: budgeting, policy formulation as well as providing future state technology strategies for an effort.
* Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.
* Exhibits in-depth knowledge of how own specialism contributes to the business and has a good understanding of the commercial environment.
* Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business.
* Requires sophisticated analytical thought to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations.
* Impacts the technology function through contribution to technical direction and strategic decisions.
* Uses developed communication skills to negotiate and often at higher levels.
* Performs other job duties and functions as assigned
* Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency

Qualifications:

* 10+ years operational and engineering design relevant experience
* Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
* Experience with software-defined storage, object storage, and public-cloud storage
* Comfort working in Linux and with shell script
* Programming experience in at least one of the following: Python, Java, or C Revise Create Job Requisition 04:00 PM 01/29/2021 Page 2 of 5
* Management and prioritization skills Ability to develop working relationships
* Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
* Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
* Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new tasks quickly
* Methodical, attention to detail
* Terraform coding experience is a plus
* AWS or GCP cloud experience is a plus

Education:

* Bachelors/University degree or equivalent work experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Architecture

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Time Type:

Full time

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