Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title CaaS Private Site Reliability EngineerCorporate Title Assistant Vice PresidentLocation Cary, NCIn short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank's technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009.OverviewAs a Site Reliability Engineer on the CaaS Private platform team, you will help operate and improve an on-prem, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform running on bare metal. You will strengthen the reliability, observability, scalability, and operational excellence of a platform that supports critical, low-latency, and regulated workloads. You will partner closely with platform, network, security, and application teams to define service level objectives, improve resilience, reduce operational toil, and build automation that allows the platform to run safely at scale. Join us here, and you will turn operational challenges into measurable engineering improvements that application teams can rely on every day.What We Offer YouA diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaborationA hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer daysEmployee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagementCompetitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefitsEducational resources, matching gift and volunteer programsWhat You'll DoDefine, implement, and continuously improve SLI/SLOs, alerting standards, and error budgets for the CaaS Private platform and critical servicesBuild and maintain observability across metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards to provide clear insight into platform health, saturation, latency, and failure modesLead or coordinate incident response for platform-impacting events, ensuring timely mitigation, clear communication, blameless postmortems, and durable follow-up actionsAutomate repetitive operational tasks and remediation workflows to reduce toil, improve platform consistency, and accelerate recovery timeImprove reliability, upgrade safety, and operational readiness for Kubernetes clusters, ingress paths, service mesh components, node services, and critical platform dependenciesPartner with platform, network, security, and application teams on capacity planning, release readiness, troubleshooting, operational documentation, and adoption of best practicesSkills You'll NeedProven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related infrastructure roleHands-on Kubernetes expertise, including operating clusters on bare metal or private cloud environments and supporting platform services at scaleStrong Linux system administration capability and infrastructure-level scripting experience using Python, Ansible, and BashPractical knowledge of observability stacks and telemetry pipelines, including Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards, and OpenTelemetry-style conceptsStrong understanding of incident management, root cause analysis, operational readiness, computer networking, virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems behavior under failureSkills That Will Help You ExcelExperience with Istio / Envoy, service mesh observability, traffic management, OPA Gatekeeper, admission controls, or policy-driven operational guardrailsFamiliarity supporting stateful services such as PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB, or comparable platform dependenciesPractical knowledge of capacity planning, load testing, chaos testing, failure-injection techniques, alert tuning, and self-healing automationExposure to low-latency or regulated environments with strict uptime, change control, compliance, time synchronization, deterministic performance, or SR-IOV workload constraintsAbility to read and understand Golang code when troubleshooting platform components, with strong written and verbal communication skills and a continuous learning mindsetIt is the Bank's expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary, NC office in accordance with the Bank's hybrid working model.Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.The salary range for this position in Cary is $100,000 to $153,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.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.Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.