Lead Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title- SRE Lead for Core Banking Services - Corporate Bank Technology

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location- Pune, India

Role Description

The role is the functional Site Reliability Engineering Lead under Core Banking Services domain within Corporate Bank Technology. The individual is responsible for a team of 2 in India.

The role requires a candidate with a strong technical background and experience running an Engineering team bringing dedication across continual service improvement, engineering transformation initiatives, particularly influencing a large number of functional teams in adopting a SRE model.

You will be highly visible to senior stakeholders in the Business, Ops and CIO organisations. You will play a key role developing our workforce strengthening the Engineering Culture and Skills (Early Detection, Automation / Self-Healing), including the influence of key stakeholders surrounding production such as Application Development, Infrastructure and Shared Platforms.

Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel. 

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• As Site Reliability Engineer, you contribute to the overarching implementation and operation of Deutsche Bank's Online Banking platform in the Google Cloud to become a central part of the feature squads based on the paradigm "you built it, you run it."
• Define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and enable an end-to-end view of customer satisfaction based on best practices for setting up
• Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to create effective strategies for maintaining and improving system performance and availability.
•  Collaborate with Business Functional Analysts and Solution Architects to find improvements in the solution design early on, improving the reliability of technical solutions.
• Consult and guide the squad on the prioritization of reliability improvement and actively deliver them as part of the sprint.
• Hands-on experience in implementing reliability and resilience patterns like auto-scaling, circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiters, retry mechanisms, etc.
• Actively work on service request fulfillment, incident, and problem management to identify and reduce toil and the MTTR using engineering best practices.
• Align and contribute to state-of-the-art SRE best practices, e.g., GitOps, Distributed Tracing, Open Telemetry, and Chaos Engineering, with the SRE chapter function.
• Be a knowledge- and skill multiplicator of your profession by being a Lead of the Site Reliability engineer population
• Increase the seniority of the overall Site Reliability Engineer chapter by establishing events and procedures and fostering a culture of high standards
• Lead people in your engineering profession and make them become better each day
• Works with Delivery Services eg (Fabric, Infrastructure) on improvements to service availability and resilience.

Your skills and experience

• Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with applications hosted on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform as well as with
• Docker / Kubernetes in combination with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, or similar technology.
• Experience in resilient software development in JAVA and/or JavaScript and the usage of modern CI/CD pipelines, e.g., Bitbucket, Github,and GitHub Actions.
• Strong experience in setting up observability, monitoring and self-healing solutions for instance with New Relic, Splunk, Google CloudOperations, Lightstep and Ansible.
• Very good knowledge of security standards (e.g., TLS, OAuth2, KMS, Vault, Admission Controllers, let's encrypt), microservicearchitectures, and experience with API Management with Apigee or WSO2.
• Proactive attitude and collaborative Team player mindset paired with self-confidence.
•  Not losing your coolness and keeping your eye on details even in stressful situations where time matters.
• Having a creative approach to solving technical problems.
• Strong Experience across the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC) and the associated control gates
• Good understanding of Production technologies / big data tools (Kafka,Elastic Search, Splunk, Clickhouse)
• Experienced leader, capable of setting & selling strategy and direction
• Educated to degree level (or overseas equivalent)

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.