Job Description:
Job Title Site Reliability Engineer / Senior Engineer
Location London
Corporate Title Vice President
The Corporate Bank sits at the core of Deutsche Bank’s client franchise and is a market leader in Cash Management, Trade Finance and Lending, Securities Services, and Trust and Agency services.
This role operates within Corporate Bank Production as a Senior Engineer in Enterprise SRE division, which supports critical client-facing platforms across multiple domains.
Corporate Bank Production is focused on continuously improving production stability and our client experience, underpinned by a strong engineering culture that drives reduced incidents, faster resolution, and controlled change across the production environment.
What we’ll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year
Your key responsibilities
- Defining and implementing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and embed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve service reliability and operational excellence
- Establishing and enhancing comprehensive monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting systems to provide deep visibility into system health and performance
- Conducting in‑depth technical analysis of production platforms to identify, prioritize, and remediate performance, stability, and resilience issues
- Exploring and partnering with teams to prototype, and implement AI/ML solutions to enhance production support efficiency, including predictive incident detection, intelligent alerting, automated root cause analysis, and proactive anomaly detection
- Leading root cause analysis (RCA) activities and implement preventative measures
- Building strong partnerships with global stakeholders across development, infrastructure, and production functions to proactively identify risks, define remediation strategies, and effectively manage change-related conflicts
Your skills and experience
- A university degree in a technological or scientific discipline, or equivalent professional experience, preferably within the financial services industry
- Extensive, hands-on experience with Production Application Support and ITIL Practices with an SRE knowledge and mindset
- Proven ability to build effective partnerships, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and the capability to operate successfully within a complex, global organisation
- Deep understanding of application Support and/or Development and complex IT infrastructure (UNIX, Database, Middleware, Cloud, Kubernetes, MQ etc.)
- Experience in application log and performance monitoring tools such as Geneos, Splunk, Grafana and New Relic - leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to establish End-To-End Monitoring across our business flows
- Good understanding of most recent technologies, be it cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure), programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python), databases (Postgres, BigQuery, MongoDB), Messaging (MQ, Kafka) or other solutions
- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs
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
- We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)
About us
Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.
Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.
If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on [email protected] to discuss.
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.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.