Job Title: DevOps Engineer, ITAO, AVP
Role Description
- Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data. This means that technology is more important than ever for business.
- Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, and the breadth of investment in this area is unmatched by our peers. Joining the team is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the core of some of our most mission critical processing systems from the ground-up.
- Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team of 3000 Engineers (and growing!) across 30 countries. The primary businesses that we support within Corporate Bank are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology supports these businesses through vertical CIO aligned teams and by horizontals such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.
- The role is for someone who has Dev/Ops and IT Application Owner (ITAO) experience; has handled Dev/Ops function and various ITAO responsibilities including IT governance, Continuity management, Business Risk Management, Change management, IT Asset management.
Your key responsibilities
- Builds, expand, enhance, and maintain CI/CD/CT automation pipeline across Dev, Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Prod environments
- Ensure CI/CD implementations are based on Configuration-as-Code and Pipeline-as-Code and ensure infrastructure is built as Infrastructure-as-Code
- Develop Automations (CI/CD pipelines, agents, access, and integrations), administer repository solutions (GIT Source control, Docker repository, OpenShift), Integrate Continuous Deployment processes, Integrates Continuous Testing processes, and automate through scripting using PowerShell and other technologies
- Develop and maintain Java, Spring Boot based Microservices
- Help with migrating the existing infrastructure from on-prem to Google Cloud Platform
- Enterprise IT governance: Review current and proposed information systems for compliance with the organisation's obligations (including legislation, regulatory, contractual and agreed standards/policies) and adherence to overall strategy. Provides specialist advice to those accountable for governance to correct compliance issues.
- Information security: Communicate information security risks and issues to business managers and others. Performs basic risk assessments for small information systems. Contributes to vulnerability assessments. Applies and maintains specific security controls as required by organisational policy and local risk assessments. Investigates suspected attacks. Responds to security breaches in line with security policy and records the incidents and action taken.
- Availability management: Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks. Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability. Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels. Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
- Service acceptance: Engages with project management to confirm that products developed meet the service acceptance criteria and are to the required standard. Feeds into change management processes.
- Configuration management: Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to configuration items. Verifies and approves changes ensuring protection of assets and components from unauthorised change, diversion and inappropriate use. Ensures that users comply with identification standards for object types, environments, processes, lifecycles, documentation, versions, formats, baselines, releases and templates. Performs audits to check the accuracy of information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.
- Asset management: Applies tools, techniques and processes to create and maintain an accurate asset register. Produces reports and analysis to support asset management activities and aid decision making.
- Change management: Develops implementation plans for complex requests for change. Evaluates risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security and compliance of the business services impacted). Seeks authority for those activities, reviews the effectiveness of change implementation, and suggests improvement to organisational procedures governing change management. Leads the assessment, analysis, development, documentation and implementation of changes based on requests for change.
- Security administration: Investigates minor security breaches in accordance with established procedures. Assists users in defining their access rights and privileges. Performs non-standard security administration tasks and resolves security administration issues.
- Set up observability for the application. Monitor and report on application up-time, performance, and other metrics
Your skills and experience
- 10+ years of relevant IT experience
- Experience with DevOps, DevOps Cloud engineering (utilizing cloud fundamentals like Google/Amazon/Microsoft) and managing Java/NodeJS applications
- Knowledge with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices Experience using Terraform, GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkins, and delivering good quality code within enterprise scale development
- Quality assurance: Contributes to the collection of evidence and the conduct of formal audits or reviews of activities, processes, data, products or services. Examines records for evidence that appropriate testing and other quality control activities have taken place and determines compliance with organisational directives, standards and procedures. Identifies non-compliances, non-conformances and abnormal occurrences.
- Conformance review: Collects and collates evidence as part of a formally conducted and planned review of activities, processes, products or services. Examines records as part of specified testing strategies for evidence of compliance with management directives, or the identification of abnormal occurrences.
- Experience in application development using Java, Spring, and related technologies would be an advantage
