Job Title IB CTO Team - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Corporate Title Assistant Vice President
Location Cary, NC
Who we are
In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.
Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.
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
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our global team. This role will focus on ensuring the operational health, reliability, performance, and scalability of the CARE platform and multi-tenant applications, encompassing Global Control Programme(GCP)/on-prem infrastructure, application deployment, and the underlying CARE services. You will be instrumental in defining and implementing SRE best practices to maintain a highly available and resilient platform. As a senior IB SRE, you will be crucial in ensuring the continuous operation and improvement of the platform.
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
Platform Reliability and Performance: Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to platform availability, performance, and capacity on both GCP and on-prem infrastructure
Operational Excellence: Develop, implement, and maintain SRE best practices, including incident response, post-mortems, root cause analysis, and proactive problem prevention
Automation and Tooling: Drive automation efforts to reduce manual toil across operational tasks, deployment, scaling, and recovery. This includes developing and improving monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems
SLI/SLO Management: Define, monitor, and report on Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for key platform services, working to continuously improve them
Collaboration and Support: Liaise with application teams (tenants) to understand their operational needs, provide guidance on platform best practices for reliability, capacity planning, and assist with complex troubleshooting
Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security teams to ensure the platform adheres to security policies and compliance requirements, focusing on operational security aspects
Skills You’ll Need
Strong understanding of SRE principles and practices, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, post-mortems, and toil reduction
Deep understanding of GCP services such as GKE, Identity and Access Management or Illiquid Asset Monitization (IAM), identity services, CloudSQL, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and related operational aspects. Extensive experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration, including configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Experience with Service Mesh (e.g., Istio) is highly desirable
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Google Cloud Monitoring) and defining effective alerts and dashboards
Solid experience with Git and GitHub, including Git workflow for managing code and deployment tooling such as ArgoCD for deployments and managing application lifecycles
Programming/scripting (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) experience for automation, tooling development, data analysis and managing infrastructure
Skills That Will Help You Excel
Strong understanding of Software Development Life cycle(SDLC) / DevOps best practices, with a focus on continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing from an operational perspective
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in distributed systems
Experience with production support and on-call rotations in a critical environment
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 $100,000 to $153,000. 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.
Deutsche Bank Benefits
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We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Click these links to view Deutsche Bank’s Equal Opportunity Policy Statement and the following notices: EEOC Know Your Rights; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; and Employee Polygraph Protection Act.
Skills Required
- Strong understanding of SRE principles and practices
- Deep understanding of GCP services and Kubernetes
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
- Solid experience with Git and GitHub
- Programming/scripting experience in Python, Go, Java, Bash
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Deutsche Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Deutsche Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Deutsche Bank.
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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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What We Do
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