Purpose of the role:
The Site Reliability Engineer will support and enhance critical Fixed Income trading platforms, focusing primarily on automating SOD and SOW readiness checks, while also improving the reliability, performance, scalability and observability of business-critical trading systems.
What you'll do:
- Create scripts that automate Start of Day and Start of Week checks across critical trading services, dependencies and infrastructure (TOIL automation).
- Ensure automated checks are repeatable, auditable, resilient and provide clear evidence of platform readiness, exceptions and remediation actions.
- Develop actionable dashboards, alerts and workflows that rapidly identify failed checks, business impact and ownership.
- Replace manual operational processes with reliable automation to reduce TOIL, operational risk and recovery time.
- Help design, deploy and maintain observability solutions using OpenTelemetry and/or OpenSearch.
- Build and improve monitoring, alerting, tracing and logging capabilities using tools such as Grafana and Geneos.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, drive root cause analysis and improve system resilience, performance and scalability.
- Support change, incident and problem management processes, maintaining clear technical and operational documentation.
The skills you'll need:
- Proven experience in SRE, Production Engineering, DevOps or production automation roles.
- Demonstrable experience automating operational readiness, health-check or control processes in a large enterprise environment.
- Excellent Scripting and automation skills using Python, Shell or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry deployments and modern observability platforms.
- Strong knowledge of OpenSearch, Grafana, Geneos and enterprise monitoring solutions.
- Experience supporting Real Time, financial services or trading platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership and deliver with minimal supervision.
Deutsche Bank's Values
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 teams to 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 are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
This client will only accept workers operating via a PAYE engagement model.
AMS's payroll service is in partnership with Giant, we have worked with them for many years and have good processes in place to ensure you get the best service. If you are successful in your application for this role, your contract will be via Giant.