Description
Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Commercial Bank Tribe.
The successful candidate will take end-to-end ownership for the reliability, automation, deployment readiness and operational excellence of platform capabilities, acting as a senior technical partner for application squads and driving engineering standards across infrastructure, observability and release processes.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the technical enablement of application teams by defining and implementing standards for automated deployment, recovery, observability and operational readiness.
- Own and continuously improve reliable, compliant and repeatable deployment patterns in line with bank standards, including advanced scripting, infrastructure automation and pipeline engineering.
- Coordinate and technically steer complex production releases across development, infrastructure, security and operations teams, ensuring release quality, risk transparency and smooth transition into production.
- Drive observability, incident prevention and problem management by analysing infrastructure and application behaviour, identifying systemic issues and guiding teams towards sustainable remediation.
- Act as a senior engineer in an agile setup, mentoring colleagues, challenging existing ways of working and contributing to platform strategy, engineering governance and continuous improvement.
- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise work flows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
Requirements:
- Extensive senior-level experience as a DevOps Engineer, Configuration Manager or Site Reliability Engineer, with proven ownership of mission-critical platforms or large-scale production environments.
- Strong track record in mobile app deployment, maintenance and production support, including release coordination, operational readiness and continuous service improvement.
- Very good hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS, including secure infrastructure design, automation, monitoring and resilience patterns.
- Very good hands-on experience with GitHub, Terraform, Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, and can guide others in applying these technologies effectively.
- Deep experience in designing, developing and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines, including quality gates, security controls, deployment automation and production-grade release processes.
- Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, mentoring engineers and translating reliability, risk and governance requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both private and professional needs.
- Emotionally and mentally balanced: consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.
- Physically thriving: support to maintain personal health and a professional environment.
- Socially connected: networking opportunities, flexible working, and an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Financially secure: pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.