Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Commercial Bank)
Summary
Senior SRE at Deutsche Bank in Berlin who owns reliability, deployment automation, observability and production release coordination for the corporate bank's Merchant Solutions platform. Works hands-on with GitHub, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms (GCP/Azure/AWS) while mentoring application squads.
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/x) you will take end-to-end ownership for the reliability, automation, deployment readiness and operational excellence of our platform capabilities, acting as a senior technical partner for application squads and driving engineering standards across infrastructure, observability and release processes
- You will lead the technical enablement of application teams by defining and implementing standards for automated deployment, recovery, observability and operational readiness
- You will own and continuously improve reliable, compliant and repeatable deployment patterns in line with bank standards, including advanced scripting, infrastructure automation and pipeline engineering
- You will coordinate and technically steer complex production releases across development, infrastructure, security and operations teams, ensuring release quality, risk transparency and smooth transition into production
- You will drive observability, incident prevention and problem management by analysing infrastructure and application behaviour, identifying systemic issues and guiding teams towards sustainable remediation
- You will 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
- You are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, mentoring engineers and translating reliability, risk and governance requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions
- You have 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
- You bring 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
- You have deep experience in designing, developing and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines, including quality gates, security controls, deployment automation and production-grade release processes
- You have a strong track record in mobile app deployment, maintenance and production support, including release coordination, operational readiness and continuous service improvement
- You have very good hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS, including secure infrastructure design, automation, monitoring and resilience patterns

