Job Description
Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Engineer – Kafka Infrastructure Engineer
Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President
Location: Pune, India
Overview:
Addressing the needs of the wider technology organisation to have a reliable service and guidance around Kafka which enables diverse use cases to make best use of this key technology is critical to the success of the latest organisational strategies and business needs.
The Kafka Infrastructure Engineers are actively and continuously driving the improvements of operational standards for our Kafka platforms across the bank.
The Kafka Infrastructure Engineers are responsible to further develop DevOps methods around the provisioning and management of Kafka both for the management of clusters and for the management of tenant usage on those clusters across production and non-production environments.
In addition, the Kafka Infrastructure Engineers act as a focus point for knowledge around Kafka helping to educate and guide the users of this technology on best practice in collaboration with industry experts.
What We Offer You:
• We offer competitive health and wellness benefits, empowering you to value life in and out of the office
• Retirement Savings Plans, Parental Leave, and other family-friendly programs
• Educational Resources including College Coaching, Sponsorship [Tuition and Test Prep] Programs, and Student Loan Refinancing
Your Role
What You'll Do
• Strategy & Architecture
• Knowledge Management: Organizes knowledge assets and oversees the lifecycle of identifying, capturing, classifying, storing and maintaining assets. Facilitates sharing, collaboration and communication of knowledge. Monitors the use and impact of knowledge; interrogates existing knowledge content to identify issues, risks and opportunities. Implements specific knowledge management initiatives.
• Business risk management: Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business. Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business. Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialised areas of risk, such as architecture and environment. Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans.
• Continuity management: Implements and contributes to the development of a continuity management plan. Coordinates the assessment of risks to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems that support critical business processes. Coordinates the planning, designing, and testing of maintenance procedures and contingency plans.
• Change and Transformation
Requirements/Acceptance Criteria definition: Defines requirements/acceptance criteria and prioritisation in regards of the operational aspects. Provides constructive challenge to
• Product Teams as required. Reviews requirements for errors and omissions. Provides input to the requirements/acceptance criteria base-line.
Delivery and operation
• 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 level management: Ensures that service delivery meets agreed service levels. Diagnoses service delivery problems and initiates actions to maintain or improve levels of service. Establishes and maintains operational methods, procedures and facilities in assigned area of responsibility and reviews them regularly for effectiveness and efficiency.
• Change management: Review implementation plans for changes. 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: Maintains security administration processes and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures. Provides guidance in defining access rights and privileges. Investigates security breaches in accordance with established procedures and recommends required actions and supports / follows up to ensure these are implemented.
• Application support: Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support. Manages application enhancements to improve business performance. Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs. Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.
• Problem management: Ensures that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services. Ensures that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s). Enables development of problem solutions. Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures. Analyses patterns and trends.
• Incident management: Ensures that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures. Investigates escalated incidents to responsible service owners and seeks resolution. Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Ensures that resolved incidents are properly documented and closed. Analyses causes of incidents, and informs service owners in order to minimise probability of recurrence, and contribute to service improvement. Analyses metrics and reports on performance of incident management process.
Skills You'll Need
• 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.
• Digital forensics: Contributes to digital forensic investigations. Processes and analyses evidence in line with policy, standards and guidelines and supports production of forensics findings and reports.
Skills That Will Help You Excel
• Autonomy: Works under general direction within a clear framework of accountability. Exercises substantial personal responsibility and autonomy. Plans own work to meet given objectives and processes.
• Influence : Influences customers, suppliers and partners at account level. May have some responsibility for the work of others and for the allocation of resources. Participates in external activities related to own specialism. Makes decisions which influence the success of projects and team objectives. Collaborates regularly with team members, users and customers. Engages to ensure that user needs are being met throughout.
• Complexity: Work includes a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigates, defines and resolves complex issues.
• Knowledge: Has a thorough understanding of recognised generic industry bodies of knowledge and specialist bodies of knowledge as necessary. Has gained a thorough knowledge of the domain of the organisation. Is able to apply the knowledge effectively in unfamiliar situations and actively maintains own knowledge and contributes to the development of others. Rapidly absorbs new information and applies it effectively. Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development.
Education/Certification
• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent)
Deutsche Bank Values & Diversity
Deutsche Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.
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, ****** orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
Click to find out more about our diversity and inclusion policy and initiatives
Job Title: Senior Engineer – Kafka Infrastructure Engineer
Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President
Location: Pune, India
Overview:
Addressing the needs of the wider technology organisation to have a reliable service and guidance around Kafka which enables diverse use cases to make best use of this key technology is critical to the success of the latest organisational strategies and business needs.
The Kafka Infrastructure Engineers are actively and continuously driving the improvements of operational standards for our Kafka platforms across the bank.
The Kafka Infrastructure Engineers are responsible to further develop DevOps methods around the provisioning and management of Kafka both for the management of clusters and for the management of tenant usage on those clusters across production and non-production environments.
In addition, the Kafka Infrastructure Engineers act as a focus point for knowledge around Kafka helping to educate and guide the users of this technology on best practice in collaboration with industry experts.
What We Offer You:
• We offer competitive health and wellness benefits, empowering you to value life in and out of the office
• Retirement Savings Plans, Parental Leave, and other family-friendly programs
• Educational Resources including College Coaching, Sponsorship [Tuition and Test Prep] Programs, and Student Loan Refinancing
Your Role
What You'll Do
• Strategy & Architecture
• Knowledge Management: Organizes knowledge assets and oversees the lifecycle of identifying, capturing, classifying, storing and maintaining assets. Facilitates sharing, collaboration and communication of knowledge. Monitors the use and impact of knowledge; interrogates existing knowledge content to identify issues, risks and opportunities. Implements specific knowledge management initiatives.
• Business risk management: Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business. Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business. Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialised areas of risk, such as architecture and environment. Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans.
• Continuity management: Implements and contributes to the development of a continuity management plan. Coordinates the assessment of risks to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems that support critical business processes. Coordinates the planning, designing, and testing of maintenance procedures and contingency plans.
• Change and Transformation
Requirements/Acceptance Criteria definition: Defines requirements/acceptance criteria and prioritisation in regards of the operational aspects. Provides constructive challenge to
• Product Teams as required. Reviews requirements for errors and omissions. Provides input to the requirements/acceptance criteria base-line.
Delivery and operation
• 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 level management: Ensures that service delivery meets agreed service levels. Diagnoses service delivery problems and initiates actions to maintain or improve levels of service. Establishes and maintains operational methods, procedures and facilities in assigned area of responsibility and reviews them regularly for effectiveness and efficiency.
• Change management: Review implementation plans for changes. 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: Maintains security administration processes and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures. Provides guidance in defining access rights and privileges. Investigates security breaches in accordance with established procedures and recommends required actions and supports / follows up to ensure these are implemented.
• Application support: Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support. Manages application enhancements to improve business performance. Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs. Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.
• Problem management: Ensures that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services. Ensures that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s). Enables development of problem solutions. Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures. Analyses patterns and trends.
• Incident management: Ensures that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures. Investigates escalated incidents to responsible service owners and seeks resolution. Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Ensures that resolved incidents are properly documented and closed. Analyses causes of incidents, and informs service owners in order to minimise probability of recurrence, and contribute to service improvement. Analyses metrics and reports on performance of incident management process.
Skills You'll Need
• 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.
• Digital forensics: Contributes to digital forensic investigations. Processes and analyses evidence in line with policy, standards and guidelines and supports production of forensics findings and reports.
Skills That Will Help You Excel
• Autonomy: Works under general direction within a clear framework of accountability. Exercises substantial personal responsibility and autonomy. Plans own work to meet given objectives and processes.
• Influence : Influences customers, suppliers and partners at account level. May have some responsibility for the work of others and for the allocation of resources. Participates in external activities related to own specialism. Makes decisions which influence the success of projects and team objectives. Collaborates regularly with team members, users and customers. Engages to ensure that user needs are being met throughout.
• Complexity: Work includes a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigates, defines and resolves complex issues.
• Knowledge: Has a thorough understanding of recognised generic industry bodies of knowledge and specialist bodies of knowledge as necessary. Has gained a thorough knowledge of the domain of the organisation. Is able to apply the knowledge effectively in unfamiliar situations and actively maintains own knowledge and contributes to the development of others. Rapidly absorbs new information and applies it effectively. Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development.
Education/Certification
• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent)
Deutsche Bank Values & Diversity
Deutsche Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.
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, ****** orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
Click to find out more about our diversity and inclusion policy and initiatives
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Engineer|Senior Engineer | Kafka Infrastructure Engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Pune offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
