R&C Production Engineer

Job Title: R&C Production Engineer

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to support the Rates & Credit and broader Fixed Income Currencies businesses.
• This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our real-time trading platforms. You will apply SRE principles to proactively manage system health, drive operational excellence, and collaborate closely with senior traders, developers, and cross-functional teams to optimize front-to-back workflows. 
• As a technical leader, you will be responsible for maintaining platform availability, resolving complex issues, and championing automation and observability initiatives. Your ability to lead a team, communicate effectively across business and technology stakeholders, and operate under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment will be critical to success.

Ideal Candidate:

• A problem solver who thrives in high-pressure environments and balances technical expertise with business insight.
• Strong communicator, capable of discussing complex technical issues to a range of stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of the critical role support plays in a large, complex technology divisions within financial organisations.
• Passionate about automation, with hands-on experience in building tools that reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• An accomplished technical professional that leads by example.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy,

• 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

Your key responsibilities

• Incident & Problem Management: Respond rapidly to production incidents with data driven decision making, minimizing downtime and financial impact. Lead root cause analysis and conduct blameless post-mortems.
• Monitoring & Automation: Enhance application health monitoring and implement automation to reduce manual intervention and improve system resilience, with a key focus on start of day health checks.
• Disaster Recovery: Participate in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Collaboration: Partner with development teams to design and deploy fault-tolerant, scalable solutions aligned with business goals.
• Governance & Compliance: Enforce and adhere to change, incident, and problem management policies, as well as bank specific non-financial risk frameworks.
• Mentorship & Role Modelling: Support the growth of junior team members and promote a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.  Engagement in wider Technology & Bank-wide initiatives such as Engineering Days, Hackathons, Volunteering, Lunch and Learns, Employee Resource Group events, etc.

Your skills and experience

• A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
• 15yrs+ proven industry experience in a Production Support, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps role within a Trading or Financial Services Environment.
• Familiarity with Agile software development concepts and wider processes within the Software Development Life Cycle i.e. Change, Incident, Problem Management.
• Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, shell scripting, and programming languages such as Python, Java, etc.
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Have a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and fundamental trading systems. Knowledge of Fixed Income and related products such as Rates, Credit and Repo.
• Self-motivated, proactive in nature, and ability to work independently; as well as collaboratively in a global organisation

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

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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.