Corporate Bank - Senior Engineer - AVP

Deutsche Bank; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Specialist in Singapore. You will lead infrastructure operations for Linux/Unix systems, ensuring critical services are available 24/7. The role requires 10-12 years of IT experience, proactive management of escalations, and collaboration across global teams. Ideal candidates will be adept in IT Service Management and Agile practices, working in a dynamic environment. A background in the banking sector and experience with payment systems is advantageous. Flexible work arrangements and comprehensive leave benefits are offered.

Benefits

Flexible benefits plan including virtual doctor consultation

Comprehensive leave benefits

Gender Neutral Parental Leave

Hybrid working arrangement

25 days of annual paid leave

Qualifications

• 10-12+ years of work experience in IT.
• Experience in banking domain especially in payment business is an advantage.
• Exposure to the Banking / Financial industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to infrastructure operations teams.
• Ensure 24X7 availability of service through monitoring.
• Drive change and release management practices.
• Manage escalations and ensure timely resolution.
• Collaborate with global teams for Linux/UNIX management.

Skills

IT Service Management

Strong communication skills

Team player

Shell scripting

Agile-Scrum delivery

Tools

Linux (SuSE / RHEL / OEL)

MQ installation

Jira

Confluence

Job description

About Corporate Bank Technology

Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data. This means that technology is more important than ever for the business.

Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, and the breadth of investment in this area is unmatched by our peers. Joining the team is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the core of some of our most mission critical processing systems from the ground-up.

Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team of 3000 coders (and growing!) across 30 countries. The primary businesses that Corporate Bank support are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology support these businesses through CIO aligned teams and also by 'horizontals' such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.

About Our Engineers

Our Engineers work on a diverse range of solutions using cutting-edge technology every day, including our award-winning platforms like Autobahn, Fabric, Glue, and more.

Our Technology strategy is designed to build new revenue streams and develop innovative ideas which produce a new competitive advantage for the Bank, whilst also fixing our foundations and focusing on the importance of stability and risk management. Corporate Bank Technology understands the client’s needs and has a robust strategy and innovative approach to deliver.

About the Team

Core Banking :

Core Banking and Client Statements has an end-to-end responsibility for application development and management of the respective application portfolio. The portfolio covers Core Products that GTB offers to its international clients like DDA / Cash Accounts, Core Banking, Liquidity, Payments Processing and Clearing and F / X payments globally. It is also the global cash settlement platform for all other business lines.

What we will offer you :

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.

You can expect :

Flexible benefits plan including virtual doctor consultation services

Comprehensive leave benefits

Gender Neutral Parental Leave

Hybrid working arrangement

25 days of annual paid leave, plus public holiday

A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

Your key responsibilities :

Provide leadership and oversight to the outsourced / inhouse infra operations team.

Drive stability in Linux / Unix operations, implementing best in class ITIL practices.

Ensure 24X7 availability of service through proactive monitoring and response to critical issues in a timely manner

Ownership of processes and governance around software license management, assets management, middleware upgrades and technology refresh activities.

Drive effective change and release management practices to ensure uninterrupted service operations and availability

Review and improve operational processes including BCM / DR solutions.

Able to drive key projects and initiatives to deliver the change book of work.

Oversight of day to day and routine operations activities for compliance with ops manuals, golden rules, best practices. Drive rigor on handoffs, health checks and ‘Manager on Duty Activities.

Manage escalations and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.

Work with Application teams to provide solutions to LINUX / UNIX OS needs, Filesystem and performance related issues.

Collaborate with global virtual Linux / unix teams and be able to manage Linux / UNIX servers across the multiple location in APAC.

Drive incident calls effectively to quick resolution, followed up with robust problem management activities to minimize risks in the environment.

Identify areas for automation and self-help, and work closely with stakeholders and colleagues in improving the maturity of operations.

Drive optimization of infra operations processes that can improve performance, identify trends, threats in systems and skills

Proactive review that SLAs are fit for purpose and introduce new measures to improve the service and address key pain points or gaps.

Your skills and experience :

IT Service Management, IT Governance or IT Project Management background.

Banking / Financial industry Exposure is a plus.

Business Risk audits experience is needed

Strong team player who also can work under pressure, independently and proactively while balancing competing priorities to achieve results on complex new development and integrations.

Excellent communication and presentation skills, highly organized and disciplined.

Experienced in working with multiple stakeholders. Ability to create and naturally maintain good business with all stakeholders.

Comfortable working in VUCA (Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity) and highly dynamic environments.

As infrastructure specialist must have following technical skills

• Linux (SuSE / RHEL / OEL)
• AIX (optional)
• Virtualization technology – Solaris Zones, Linux on VMware virtual

machines

• VERITAS Clustering Products (VCS)
• MQ installation, MQ queues and channel setup experience
• DR activities
• Shell scripting
• Control M / scheduling tool experience

Reasonable understanding and relevant experience in Agile-Scrum delivery and main tools (Jira & Confluence);

10-12+ years of work experience in IT.

Experience in banking domain specially in payment business is advantage.