Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President

Deutsche Bank; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best in class leave policy

Gender neutral parental leaves

Childcare reimbursement

Certifications sponsorship

Employee Assistance Program

Hospitalization Insurance for you and/

Accident and Term life Insurance

Health screening for 35 yrs+

Job summary

Deutsche Bank is seeking a Vice President-level Site Reliability Engineer to lead enterprise observability initiatives from Pune. You will own SLO/SLI governance, standardize reliability metrics, and drive incident management across platforms.

The role requires strong leadership, cloud and Kubernetes experience, and hands-on skills in Python and Linux, with a focus on audit-ready controls and risk-aware operations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading SRE/production engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of SLOs, error budgets, incident governance.
• Hands-on with distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Python and Linux.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise SLO/SLI framework aligned to service criticality.
• Establish and enforce error budget governance policies.
• Standardize reliability KPIs and reporting across teams.
• Own incident management framework (severity, escalation, response).
• Oversee reliability reviews with leadership and drive RCA standards.

Skills

SRE leadership

SLOs & error budgets

Incident governance

Observability

Distributed systems

Cloud

Kubernetes

Python

Linux

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Monitoring Tools

Job description

SRE - Site Reliability Engineer - VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description: We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer Observability to build and scale our enterprise observability capability. This role focuses on instrumentation, monitoring, and telemetry platforms to provide end-to-end visibility across services. Own and drive enterprise-wide reliability governance, ensuring systems operate with consistent SLO standards, strong production controls, and audit-ready processes.

Act as the central control tower for reliability across all platforms.

What well offer you As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that youll enjoy

Benefits

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% 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

Key Responsibilities

• Reliability Governance: Define and own enterprise SLO/SLI framework aligned to service criticality
• Establish and enforce error budget governance policies
• Standardize reliability KPIs and reporting
• Production Controls: Define PRR / Production Certification (PRC) standards
• Observability coverage (metrics, logs, traces)
• Alert quality (actionable, low-noise)
• Runbooks & recovery readiness
• Govern release readiness across teams
• Incident Governance: Own incident management framework (severity, escalation, response)
• Define RCA standards, SLAs, and quality benchmarks
• Ensure traceability (alert incident RCA remediation)
• Oversee major incidents and systemic risks
• Risk & Audit Alignment: Drive adoption of SRE practices across engineering
• Provide frameworks, playbooks, and guidance
• Conduct reliability reviews with leadership

Skills & Experience

• Strong SRE / production engineering leadership experience
• Expertise in SLOs, error budgets, incident governance, observability
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud, and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of risk, audit, and compliance (financial services preferred)
• Own and enforce reliability as a governed, measurable, and audit-ready capability across the enterprise.
• Strong understanding of metrics, logs, traces correlation
• Programming: Python, Linux
• Familiarity with monitoring tools

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information: https://www.db.com/company/company.html We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture.

The value we create

The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives.

We call this #ConnectingTheDots.

Experience Level

Experience Level Executive Level.