Job Title IB CTO Team - Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Corporate Title Vice President
Location Cary, NC
Who we are
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Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.
Overview
Investment Banking is a technology‑centric business driven by real‑time processing, sophisticated integrated systems, and vast data access, making technology critical to business success.
We are seeking a visionary and experienced Vice President, Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Investment Banking Chief Technology Office (IB CTO) team in Cary, US, where this role will be instrumental in shaping the strategic direction and execution of SRE across critical applications and platforms.
As a senior leader, you will elevate the overall reliability posture, drive architectural resilience, and champion the adoption of cloud‑native patterns across a diverse application portfolio.
You will translate complex technical challenges into actionable SRE roadmaps and execute them across multiple global teams and technology stacks.
The role also focuses on proactively mitigating systemic risk, optimizing cost efficiency through SRE principles, and providing technical thought leadership for highly complex, distributed systems underpinning core Investment Banking functions.
What We Offer You
A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs
What You’ll Do
Lead the platform reliability, performance, and scalability strategy across highly complex, distributed systems on GCP and on‑prem, providing architectural guidance to ensure resilience and fault tolerance across IB CTO applications
Define and institutionalize SRE operational excellence, including advanced incident management, blameless post‑mortems, and proactive problem‑prevention practices across engineering teams
Drive automation and tooling innovation to reduce toil across multiple applications, leveraging advanced automation, self‑healing capabilities, and operational intelligence, while mentoring engineers on sustainable solutions
Establish and drive enterprise‑wide adoption of SLIs/SLOs for mission‑critical services, aligning reliability metrics with business objectives and communicating outcomes to senior leadership and stakeholders
Act as a trusted technical advisor across application teams, leading cross‑functional initiatives to improve system stability, reliability culture, and complex troubleshooting
Provide architectural stewardship across Infrastructure as Code (IaC), capacity planning, and operational documentation, ensuring scalability, cost efficiency, security, disaster recovery, and knowledge sharing across the portfolio
How You’ll Lead
Partner closely with application development leads and platform engineering teams to embed SRE principles into system design and delivery
Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior technology and business stakeholders on reliability, risk, and operational resilience topics
Foster a shared culture of reliability, learning, and continuous improvement across geographically distributed teams
Skills You’ll Need
SRE Leadership & Culture: Deep mastery of SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management) with a proven ability to drive SRE adoption and cultural change across teams
Cloud & Platform Architecture (GCP): Expert in designing and optimizing large‑scale GCP platforms (GKE, IAM, networking, security, data services), with multi‑cloud or hybrid experience a plus
Kubernetes & Platform Operations: Hands‑on leadership operating large, production Kubernetes environments, including service mesh and shared platform capabilities
IaC, GitOps & DevOps Transformation: Extensive experience leading Terraform‑based IaC, GitOps deployments (ArgoCD / FluxCD), and modern CI/CD‑driven SDLC transformations
Observability & Engineering Excellence: Advanced observability and AIOps expertise in monitoring, alerting and logging strategies, backed by strong programming skills (e.g. Python, Go, Java) to deliver scalable automation and shared tooling
Skills That Will Help You Excel
System Design & Troubleshooting: Deep expertise in diagnosing and resolving complex, production‑critical issues through rigorous root‑cause analysis across diverse application domains
Leadership & Communication: Proven leader with the ability to influence, align cross‑functional teams, and clearly communicate complex technical topics to both technical and senior business stakeholders
Financial Services Experience (Preferred): Experience in highly regulated environments, ideally financial services, with strong understanding of compliance and security requirements for critical infrastructure
Excellent communicator who bridges technical risk and business impact for non‑technical stakeholders, and actively mentor engineers to promote scalable knowledge‑sharing
Expectations
It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary
office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.
Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.
The salary range for this position in Cary is $125,000 to $185,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.
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Skills Required
- Deep mastery of SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management)
- Expert in designing and optimizing large-scale GCP platforms
- Hands-on experience with large, production Kubernetes environments
- Extensive experience leading Terraform-based IaC, GitOps deployments
- Strong programming skills (e.g. Python, Go, Java) for automation
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning multiple medical plan options along with dental, vision, prescription coverage, life insurance, and disability protection.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is described as generous, including annual leave, sick leave, public holidays, wellbeing leave, volunteering leave in some regions, and expanded bereavement leave in certain locations.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is presented as a matched savings plan (401(k)), reinforcing longer-term financial security as part of the rewards package.
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