Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description:

Purpose Intro

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.

We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.

Role Intro

Technology underpins our entire business. Our Technology, Data and Innovation (TDI) strategy is focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, as well as modernizing the bank's IT infrastructure.  We continue to invest and build a team of visionary tech talent, providing you with the training, freedom and opportunity to do pioneering work.  As an Support Engineer you will support Enterprise Data Services (EDS) Prod environment to satisfy complex and diverse business goals.  You will engage and partner with the business whilst working within a broader creative, collaborative and innovative team, with a strong desire to make an impact.

You will work as part of a Prod Engineering team. You will bring an innovative approach to application/infra support, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees support function as team activity, with a predisposition to debug issues and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of support, from initial analysis right through to permanent fix.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) domain focusing on optimizing existing large-scale, distributed systems and eliminating TOIL through automation and software optimization.

The candidate will have the opportunity to manage complex challenges of software engineering. With your technical expertise, you will participate in design, development and testing software solutions that will ensure that our systems have reliability, observability, performance and uptime appropriate to customer’s need.

•  Writing system development code
• Supporting services before Go-Live through activities such as design consulting, developing software and frameworks for resiliency, defining observability for SLO/SLIs and capacity planning.
• Triaging with stakeholders for sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Building tooling to support the application in Production, detection of issues, communication to stakeholders focusing on high-quality customer outcomes

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field
• 8 - 10 years of industry experience in IT
• 3 - 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Experience (SRE)
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software design patterns
• Experience with design and building Micro Services systems
• Experience with Software Development using Java (11 & above), Spring Framework and related technologies.
• Hands-on in SQL and PL/SQL programming
• Experience in Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development
• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Experience with CI/CD tool – Bitbucket, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Maven/Gradle, uDeploy
• Experience with using service monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Geneos)
• Knowledge of Docker and deployment platforms like Kubernetes (or OpenShift Container Platform)
• Knowledge of the Incident, Problem and Change Management processes within the ITSM framework.
• Knowledge of using Service Management tools (e.g. ServiceNow etc.)
• High emotional quotient and respect for diverse opinions

Good to have

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field
• Experience with Cloud deployment and design (e.g. Google Cloud). IaaS using Terraform
• ITIL V3 Foundation certified
• Exposure to BFSI domain/IB Captive setup

Well-being & Benefits

Emotionally and mentally balanced:

• Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.
• A professional, passionate, and fun workplace with flexible Work from Home options.
• A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.
• Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.

Physically thriving:

• Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones.

Socially connected:

• Kids@TheOffice - support for unexpected events requiring you to care for your kids during work hours.
• Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, employee sport clubs, workshops, and more.

Financially secure:

• Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.
• 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).

Culture Outro

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.