Job Description
Job Title- Head of SRE Strategy
Location-Pune / Bangalore
Role Description
Deutsche Bank's journey to the Public Cloud is one of the bank's key strategic deliverables and paves the way for modernization and digitization of our bank. Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture is responsible for the engineering and delivery of both Public and Private Cloud infrastructure products that are used to host workloads at Deutsche Bank. The team is responsible for the enablement securing, and automation of the suite of provider-native Cloud services, as well as delivering managed PaaS and IaaS services in our Hybrid Cloud. We are building and running reliable, scalable, automated services that emphasise "You Build It; You Run It". We are working on mission critical platforms, which support business critical applications. Reliability is feature number 1.
Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Architecture Strategy, the Head of SRE Strategy will be responsible for developing and enhancing the existing Reliability Strategy by designing and contributing to the delivery of the SRE Strategy within Public, Hybrid and Private Cloud. Working closely with the Cloud and Infrastructure engineering, Cloud architecture and Reliability groups, you will be responsible for ensuring Reliability is ingrained in everything we do.
Specifically, you will be responsible for ensuring that our SRE Strategy ensures we have full Observability Capabilities, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Error Budgets, and Toil Budgets for the services we build. You will be an evangelist for SRE, not only within the Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture group, but throughout Technology across the bank – sharing your knowledge and enabling Application Development teams to transform the way they run software.
An excellent communicator, able to influence stakeholders at all levels of a large corporation, you will be deeply familiar with SRE principles and will be the person in your organisation who people come to ask questions about how to implement SRE best practices. You will have had experience defining SLOs, running with Error Budgets, and implementing Chaos Engineering techniques.
What we'll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy
• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• % reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
Your key responsibilities
• Develop and drive the SRE Strategy across the bank
• Ensure our SRE Strategy is consistent and applicable across all our venues
• Evangelise SRE and our SRE Strategy with all stakeholders across all divisions / functions of the bank
• Ensure SRE Best Practices are developed and implemented across Engineering and Infrastructure Teams
• Drive not only the technical implementation but also the mindset / culture change required to successfully implement SRE
• Bring expertise to bear on the design and engineering of the product to ensure reliability and high availability concerns are up front.
• Work with our Product Engineers to improve the release automation pipelines and our automated testing, to ensure that our releases are high quality, and that we can make them faster and more frequent
• Discover opportunities to automate manual interactions with our systems. Define and implement self-healing and self-management for the platforms.
• Ensure continuity of service through capacity planning, game days, chaos engineering
• Participate and represent SRE on various Forums across the bank
• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
Your skills and experience
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field
• 5 years' experience in a platform engineering role, with exposure to infrastructure and middleware platforms.
• 4 years' experience in an SRE, Dev Ops, or Platform Engineering role, working on mission critical systems
• Deep familiarity with any Public Cloud Provider, but especially GCP
• Experience with large heterogenous distributed systems, both in-cloud, hybrid and on-premises
• Clear understanding of SRE principles and eagerness to put them into practice
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Experience of influencing stakeholders at all levels of the Corporate Ladder
• Familiarity with the Risk Control Frameworks and the Regulatory Regime the bank operates in
• History of mentoring junior resources, and ability to influence across engineering teams
How we'll support you
• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
About us and our teams
Please visit our company website for further information:
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
Location-Pune / Bangalore
Role Description
Deutsche Bank's journey to the Public Cloud is one of the bank's key strategic deliverables and paves the way for modernization and digitization of our bank. Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture is responsible for the engineering and delivery of both Public and Private Cloud infrastructure products that are used to host workloads at Deutsche Bank. The team is responsible for the enablement securing, and automation of the suite of provider-native Cloud services, as well as delivering managed PaaS and IaaS services in our Hybrid Cloud. We are building and running reliable, scalable, automated services that emphasise "You Build It; You Run It". We are working on mission critical platforms, which support business critical applications. Reliability is feature number 1.
Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Architecture Strategy, the Head of SRE Strategy will be responsible for developing and enhancing the existing Reliability Strategy by designing and contributing to the delivery of the SRE Strategy within Public, Hybrid and Private Cloud. Working closely with the Cloud and Infrastructure engineering, Cloud architecture and Reliability groups, you will be responsible for ensuring Reliability is ingrained in everything we do.
Specifically, you will be responsible for ensuring that our SRE Strategy ensures we have full Observability Capabilities, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Error Budgets, and Toil Budgets for the services we build. You will be an evangelist for SRE, not only within the Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture group, but throughout Technology across the bank – sharing your knowledge and enabling Application Development teams to transform the way they run software.
An excellent communicator, able to influence stakeholders at all levels of a large corporation, you will be deeply familiar with SRE principles and will be the person in your organisation who people come to ask questions about how to implement SRE best practices. You will have had experience defining SLOs, running with Error Budgets, and implementing Chaos Engineering techniques.
What we'll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy
• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• % reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
Your key responsibilities
• Develop and drive the SRE Strategy across the bank
• Ensure our SRE Strategy is consistent and applicable across all our venues
• Evangelise SRE and our SRE Strategy with all stakeholders across all divisions / functions of the bank
• Ensure SRE Best Practices are developed and implemented across Engineering and Infrastructure Teams
• Drive not only the technical implementation but also the mindset / culture change required to successfully implement SRE
• Bring expertise to bear on the design and engineering of the product to ensure reliability and high availability concerns are up front.
• Work with our Product Engineers to improve the release automation pipelines and our automated testing, to ensure that our releases are high quality, and that we can make them faster and more frequent
• Discover opportunities to automate manual interactions with our systems. Define and implement self-healing and self-management for the platforms.
• Ensure continuity of service through capacity planning, game days, chaos engineering
• Participate and represent SRE on various Forums across the bank
• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
Your skills and experience
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field
• 5 years' experience in a platform engineering role, with exposure to infrastructure and middleware platforms.
• 4 years' experience in an SRE, Dev Ops, or Platform Engineering role, working on mission critical systems
• Deep familiarity with any Public Cloud Provider, but especially GCP
• Experience with large heterogenous distributed systems, both in-cloud, hybrid and on-premises
• Clear understanding of SRE principles and eagerness to put them into practice
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Experience of influencing stakeholders at all levels of the Corporate Ladder
• Familiarity with the Risk Control Frameworks and the Regulatory Regime the bank operates in
• History of mentoring junior resources, and ability to influence across engineering teams
How we'll support you
• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
About us and our teams
Please visit our company website for further information:
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 Head of SRE Strategy position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Bangalore 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.
