Hybrid SRE Automation Engineer - Fixed Income Trading

Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Bank seeks an Automation Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Fixed Income Trading in London. The role is a 6-month contract with a hybrid work pattern: 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

You will automate start-of-day checks, build observability, and drive reliability for critical trading services. The ideal candidate has proven SRE/DevOps experience, strong scripting skills (Python, Shell), and familiarity with OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Grafana, and modern monitoring.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in SRE/Production Engineering/DevOps roles.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Shell).
• Experience with observability tools and platforms.
• Experience with real-time financial services or trading platforms is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Create scripts to automate Start of Day/Week checks across critical trading services and infrastructure.
• Ensure automated checks are repeatable, auditable, and provide evidence of readiness and remediation actions.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and workflows to identify failures and ownership.
• Replace manual processes with reliable automation to reduce TOIL and risk.
• Design, deploy, and maintain observability using OpenTelemetry and/or OpenSearch.
• Build/ improve monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging with Grafana and Geneos.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve resilience.
• Support change, incident and problem management with clear documentation.

Job description

Deutsche Bank seeks an Automation Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Fixed Income Trading in London. The role is a 6-month contract with a hybrid work pattern: 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

You will automate start-of-day checks, build observability, and drive reliability for critical trading services. The ideal candidate has proven SRE/DevOps experience, strong scripting skills (Python, Shell), and familiarity with OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Grafana, and modern monitoring.