Corporate Bank Technology - Merchant Solutions – Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/x)

Job Title Corporate Bank Technology - Merchant Solutions – Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/x)

Corporate Title Vice President

Location London

The Merchant Solutions Technology group provides the Corporate Bank with a dedicated team that capitalizes on the rapidly evolving technology industry to provide our clients new products and innovation to meet their growing needs within an Agile FinTech-like setup. We deliver innovative products such as our Digital Payment Gateway (creating an API based solution allowing Marketplaces and Merchant to streamline their payment processing and settlement activities). As part of our technology team you will be responsible for software automation, reliability and continuous integration of our platforms, enabling architects, software engineers/developers, testers and production ops regarding to deliver product lines using a variety of technologies.

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 Hybrid Working 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

• Infrastructure as Code: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain our infrastructure as code to ensure robust and scalable systems
• Build and Deployment Automation: Create and enhance automated build and deployment workflows to streamline development and release processes
• Observability and Monitoring: Implement and refine observability capabilities to ensure comprehensive monitoring and quick resolution of issues
• Service Level Indicator (SLI) / Service Level Objectives (SLO) Management: Collaborate with business product owners, development teams, and production support to define, monitor, and report SLIs and SLOs, ensuring we meet our contractual SLAs
• Technical Leadership and Support: Provide technical guidance and support to the team, ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory controls, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Innovation and Industry Awareness: Stay abreast of industry trends, security requirements, and best practices in the fintech area, integrating innovative solutions to keep our infrastructure and processes at the cutting edge

Your skills and experiences

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
• Strong understanding of industry standard processes for build, deploy, release, monitoring, and support (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, incident/problem/change management, vulnerability management, establishing SLIs and monitoring of SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, etc.) 
• Strong experience in Kubernetes containerization platforms (GKE, OpenShift), HELM and Terraform and with version control (e.g. Git), and continuous integration systems (e.g. Team City, GitHub Actions and Runners)  and development of automated test tooling
• Good experience in cloud based, distributed, highly available and fault tolerant applications, and of “Function-as-a-Service” cloud environments (GCP Cloud Run or equivalent)
• Good experience in database technologies (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, cloud databases), micro-service architectures, build tools (e.g. Maven, Gradle), Java
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English; German language knowledge would be a plus.

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

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 have been named a The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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.