Platform Operations Engineer CTO

Job Description

Job Title Platform Operations Engineer (CTO) Location Birmingham Corporate Title Assistant Vice President This role for Platform as a Service (PaaS) sits within Application Platforms. The Application Platforms mission is to build the commercial, technical, architectural, and operational frameworks that will allow DB to operate successfully and securely. PaaS is the strategic application hosting platform of the bank and hosts more than 50%of banks workloads and is responsible for the delivery of on-premises and public-cloud based Platform as a Service using third party vendor solutions that leverage Docker and Kubernetes. PaaS will provide on-demand access to technology services needed to build, host, and manage bank applications using a variety of infrastructure solutions. What well offer youHybrid WorkingWe 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. You can expect:

• 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

• Production support of PaaS infrastructure which includes incident, change, problem management with a focus on maintaining the platform secure and stable
• Collaborating with engineering, Customer Success teams to host containerized workloads using above technologies in the standardized, governed and bank-approved manner
• Working closely with various vendors and internal teams, to ensure compliance with technology roadmap and security requirements on application, infrastructure, and operating system level
• Enhanced operational activities with trouble shooting and resolving issues requiring system functional knowledge and advanced knowledge of the underlying technologies being supported
• Automate manual interactions with our systems as well as define and implement self-healing and self-management for the platforms
• Maintaining and improving our observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk

Your skills and experience

• Strong working experience of Linux, Containers, Ansible like configuration/automation tools, and OpenShift technologies and knowledge and experience with ITIL process is required to perform BAU
• Experience with monitoring stack like Grafana and Prometheus and any experience with Google Cloud Platform is an added advantage
• Exposure to middleware technologies like WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat is preferred
• Experience of operating/programming for Openshift or Kubernetes
• Good understanding and basic programming skills in Python, Ansible and Go is preferred
• Work experience in operations, infrastructure models with strong troubleshooting skills including basic networking knowledge

How well support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• 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 opportunitys 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 and our teamsDeutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do. Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teamsto drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer. We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and arecommitted to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.