Lead Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/x) – Client Access

Deutsche Bank; Berlin; In loco; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Mental health support

Health check-ups and wellness programs

Flexible working options (part-time,hy

Pension plans and Deutschlandticket

Descrizione del lavoro

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin is building a global tech centre delivering cutting-edge financial services technology. This role focuses on high-volume, event-driven platforms and strong observability, with a hands-on approach to implementation and incident management across distributed teams.

The team connects with central banks, payment orchestration platforms, and external messaging channels, using agile practices to deliver reliable, scalable services in a modern cloud environment.

Competenze

• Strong hands-on experience in Java or Kotlin for distributed systems.
• Proven expertise supporting high-volume payment, trading, or financial messaging platforms in production.
• Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring with Splunk, Kibana, and Geneos.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka/MQ, including retries and idempotency.
• Incident management, root-cause analysis, and runbook development.
• Software engineering basics: testing, CI/CD, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Oracle, Kubernetes, Docker; collaboration across teams.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity while ensuring responsible data use.

Mansioni

• Partner with Engineering, QA, Production Support and Operations from design through go-live.
• Define monitoring, dashboards and actionable alerting using Splunk, Kibana and Geneos.
• Design supportability for high-volume, event-driven services with retries, replay and capacity controls.
• Translate failure modes into alerts, runbooks, and post-release checks.
• Improve testing through unit, component, contract and integration tests including rollback scenarios.
• Lead incident and problem analysis and drive corrective actions with teams.
• Contribute hands-on to implementation, architecture, design and code reviews across distributed teams.

Conoscenze

Java or Kotlin development

Observability and monitoring

Event-driven architecture (Kafka/MQ)

Incident management & recovery

CI/CD & Spring Boot

Oracle databases

Kubernetes & Docker

AI tools for productivity

Strumenti

Kubernetes

Docker

Oracle

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Description:

About the job

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence - our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

Client Access

Client Access develops and operates platforms connecting the Bank with Central Banks, clearing houses, financial institutions, corporate clients, government agencies and regulators. The portfolio includes Channel and Market Integration (CMI), our strategic cloud-based platform for payment orchestration and external connectivity, alongside established vendor products and services supporting SWIFT, EBICS and other financial-messaging channels.

Your key responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering, QA, Production Support and Operations from design through go-live.
• Define monitoring, dashboards and actionable alerting using Splunk, Kibana and Geneos.
• Design supportability for high-volume, event-driven services, including retry, replay, idempotency, reconciliation, message correlation, queue/backlog monitoring and capacity controls.
• Translate expected failure modes into alerts, runbooks, recovery procedures, support-acceptance criteria and post-release production checks.
• Improve testing through unit, component, contract, integration, performance and targeted end-to-end tests, including rollback and recovery scenarios.
• Lead technical incident and problem analysis and drive sustainable corrective actions with application and support teams.
• Contribute hands-on to implementation, architecture, design and code reviews across globally distributed teams.

Your skills and experiences

• Strong hands-on experience in Java or Kotlin development for complex distributed systems.
• Proven expertise supporting high-volume payment, trading, or financial messaging platforms in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring, including Splunk, Kibana, Geneos, telemetry design, dashboards, and alerting.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures using Kafka and MQ, including retries, replay, idempotency, and reconciliation.
• Experience driving incident management, root-cause analysis, operational readiness, recovery automation, and runbook development.
• Solid software engineering background covering testing, CI/CD, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Oracle, Kubernetes, Docker, and effective collaboration across Engineering, Production Support, and Operations teams.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life - both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.
• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.
• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as programs that foster diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or "Deutschlandticket" as well as from exclusive employee rates and personalized financial advice through our "Mitarbeiterbank".

This job is available in full and parttime.

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.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.