Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst at Citi
Chennai, TN
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Aug 18, 2026
Chennai, TN
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior DevOps/platform engineering role at Citi focused on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The position owns CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance, infrastructure-as-code automation, containerized application deployment, and platform security and observability. It suits an experienced engineer who can both write automation code and administer Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters at scale across on-premise and hybrid-cloud environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting states no work location, city, or state — CBSA is left blank. Citi has offices in many US metros; the recruiter should confirm the primary site.
Total experience requirement (8+ years overall, 5+ years DevOps) appears under Preferred Qualifications, not Required. However, the role is titled 'Senior Programmer Analyst' and the scope clearly supports a Senior classification; the experience figure is used for the overall years minimum as the most concrete signal available.
A Bachelor's degree is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so no hard degree requirement is recorded.
Jenkins is listed first among CI/CD tools; GitLab CI, Tekton, and Harness are listed as alternatives in the same required section. All are captured under one skill entry with alternatives.
Gradle/Maven (Java build tools) and Oracle/MongoDB (databases) are listed as 'preferred' within the Required Skills section — the posting uses the word 'preferred' inline, so they are marked as preferred.
Istio/OpenShift Service Mesh, Kafka/MQ, and networking concepts (CNI, Ingress, Egress) appear explicitly under Preferred Qualifications.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes automation code and IaC (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also performs significant cluster administration and operations work that could support 15-1244. The primary emphasis on building pipelines, IaC, and scripting tips the classification toward 15-1252.
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