Senior Lead DevOps Engineer – Jenkins

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Citco is a global leader in fund services, corporate governance and related asset services with staff across 50 office locations worldwide. With more than $1.8 trillion in assets under administration, we deliver end-to-end solutions and exceptional service to meet our clients’ needs.

Proprietary software solutions and innovation are at the core of what differentiates Citco in the alternative investment space. Through our network of global development centres, Citco invests heavily in technology development, security, and infrastructure to ensure our clients continue to receive award-winning products that underpin our commitment to service excellence.

As a core member of our Enterprise Platform and Engineering IT team, you will work with dedicated professionals to ensure our clients maintain access to their critical information assets while keeping Citco ahead of industry trends.

Citco seeks a highly skilled technical lead to spearhead the development of a common enterprise pipeline tool, define CI/CD strategy, and drive adoption across our organization. This role merges deep technical expertise with team leadership, ensuring that our pipeline solutions support all our current and future needs. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building large, scalable Jenkins infrastructure and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner and should have excellent collaboration skills.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role focused on developing the next generation enterprise pipeline infrastructure.

This position reports to the SVP of Enterprise Architecture and Platform Engineering and is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and has that unique combination of technical savvy and interpersonal skills.

• Lead the design and implement a unified enterprise pipeline framework leveraging Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, or other relevant tools.
• Build a scalable Jenkins platform that can handle multiple concurrent jobs and service all IT teams.
• Assess emerging CI/CD technologies, recommend improvements, and drive tool adoption across teams.
• Lead a team of developers and devops engineers to build a robust Jenkins platform.
• Define deliverables and timelines and be responsible for ensuring these are met on time.
• Work closely with cross‑functional stakeholders to gather requirements, align on strategy, and champion Dev Ops culture.
• Pipeline administration and ensure all teams utilise Infrastructure as Code to effect change and that the environment features the required controls and audit components to validate resource compliance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching for all staff and foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, innovation and collaboration.
• Define and implement all operational components required to proactively monitor and manage the production environment, identify operational issues and maintain efficient operations.
• Lead team through all service disruptions to ensure services are restored; drive root cause analysis and remediation initiatives post any service disruption.
• Define and enforce governance, security, and compliance standards across the pipeline ecosystem.
• Identify bottlenecks, propose optimizations, and push for end‑to‑end automation in the deployment process.

• Strong background in Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and other CI/CD tools. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or equivalent cloud/Dev Ops tech is a plus.
• Solid coding skills (e.g., Python, Node.js) and a solid grasp of version control (Git).
• 3+ years of experience in leading and managing a team and accountable for deliverables.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or similar cloud providers. Strong understanding of IaC principles.
• Experience automating infrastructure deployment.
• Demonstrate hands‑on working knowledge with AWS and its services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Python and Aurora.
• Experience in Software‑Defined‑Networks, Software‑Defined‑Data‑Centers, Virtual Private Clouds and other core network technology.
• Experienced…