Lead DevOps Engineer (f/m/x) –Client Facing Channels

Job Description:

About the job

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

Client Facing Channels

You will be part of the Channel and Market Integration (CMI) Squad, which develops platforms that unifies interfaces of the Bank with external systems, such as Central Banks, Clearing Houses, government Agencies, Regulators. The platform allows payment processes to leave and enter the bank, provides payment orchestrating services on cloud-based microservice architecture.

We will ask a lot of you, but we will offer a lot in return. You will have the opportunity to work in an environment that supports continuous growth and learning, with a strong focus on excellence and mutual respect.

The ideal candidate will define the continuous delivery roadmap for one of the leading programs in the Corporate Bank and lead from the front across all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle, applying agile principles in practice. You bring many years of experience and have ideally contributed to large digital transformation programs as a lead engineer (f/m/x) involving cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, containerized platforms, and secure managed runtimes.

As a lead engineer (f/m/x), you have most likely driven — or significantly contributed to — major initiatives such as cloud migration, technology modernization, DevOps culture improvements, and the ownership of production runtimes.

This role is an individual contributor position with no people management responsibilities. You will lead through technical expertise, hands-on contributions, and ownership, rather than through formal personnel management.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop orchestration and support tools as well as DevOps artifacts to maintain application rollout and monitoring.

• Apply best practices in software engineering to deliver optimum results.

• Drive DevOps initiatives and bring technical excellence to the production stage of software products.

• Understand the needs of team and troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.

• Adopt to new technology trends to provide the best industry standard solutions for maintaining hygiene and risk control.

• Bring infrastructure expertise to the team and be a subject matter expert in this area.

Your skills and experiences

• Extensive engineering and programming experience with DevOps tooling, orchestration, and automation (Bash, Python, Docker, Terraform, Ansible).

• Solid understanding of runtime virtual machines for compiled languages.

• Skilled in setting up and using CI/CD and version‑control tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, and Jenkins.

• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS) and their core services (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage), Kubernetes, and deployment patterns (e.g. blue-green, canary).

• Proven experience maintaining databases, distributed client‑server systems, and computing/storage clusters.

• Strong Linux expertise, with additional plus skills in the Java ecosystem (Spring Boot, Maven), JVM languages, Oracle, Postgres, Kafka, data stacks, message brokers, and OpenShift.

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.

Contact Luisa Moderzinski: 0151 56516413

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.