Kotlin DevOps Engineer: Cloud-Native GCP Backend London

Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Bank in London is seeking a Kotlin DevOps Engineer for a 6‑month contract on a hybrid basis (3 days in the office, 2 from home). You will design and operate scalable backend services in Kotlin and build cloud-native infrastructure using modern DevOps practices.

You'll work in a large enterprise setting, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure reliability, performance and security, while advancing event-driven architectures and XP practices such as mob programming and TDD.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building backend services in Kotlin.
• Proven DevOps Engineer experience operating within a large organisation.
• Experienced with event sourced and event driven architecture.
• XP practices: Mob programming, Test‑driven development (TDD), Continuous refactoring and clean code discipline.
• Cloud experience with GCP including GKE / Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Key Management, Terraform.
• CI/CD and SDLC experience in a regulated / enterprise environment.
• Comfortable working in production systems with high availability and correctness requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Kotlin, delivering high-quality, resilient solutions in a large enterprise environment.
• Build and operate cloud-native infrastructure, leveraging modern DevOps practices to ensure reliability, performance and security.
• Work primarily in mobs, sharing ownership of design and code.
• Build, test, and evolve services with a strong focus on clarity, simplicity and maintainability.
• Support the platform in production, using incidents and defects as opportunities to improve system design and resilience.
• Close interaction with different teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Kotlin

DevOps

Event-driven

Mob programming

TDD

Clean code

GCP

GKE/Cloud Run

Cloud SQL

Memorystore

Key Management

Terraform

CI/CD

High availability

Tools

Kotlin

Job description

Deutsche Bank in London is seeking a Kotlin DevOps Engineer for a 6‑month contract on a hybrid basis (3 days in the office, 2 from home). You will design and operate scalable backend services in Kotlin and build cloud-native infrastructure using modern DevOps practices.

You'll work in a large enterprise setting, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure reliability, performance and security, while advancing event-driven architectures and XP practices such as mob programming and TDD.