Cloud Engineer, AVP

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Technology underpins Deutsche Bank's entire business and is changing and shaping the way we engage, interact and transact with all our stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Our Technology, Data and Innovation (TDI) strategy is focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, as well as modernising the bank's IT infrastructure with long-term investments and taking advantage of cloud computing.
• But this is only the foundation.  We continue to invest and build a team of visionary tech talent who will ensure we thrive in this period of unprecedented change for the industry. It means hiring the right people and giving them the training, freedom and opportunity they need to do pioneering work. 
• We are seeking a Senior Engineer to work within our Google and Hybrid Cloud adoption program with experience of re-platforming and re-architecting solutions onto cloud.
• You will work closely with global architecture, platform engineering, infrastructure, and application teams to define and execute scalable and compliant infrastructure strategies across multiple cloud environments .  And will be hands on technical lead within our delivery pods and provide technical direction and oversight of the solutions. 
• With responsibility for engineering delivery you will consistently review designs and quality, drive re-use whilst playing a pivotal role in improving our GCP engineering capability.
• You will make strategic design decisions and define engineering approaches that can be disruptive, with the goals of simplifying architecture, reducing technical debt and increasing flow by taking advantage of the platform features and engineering benefits of Google and Hybrid Cloud.   

Deutsche Bank's Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery.  At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel. 

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

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

• Defining and building application architectures for re-platform or re-architect strategies and implement blueprints and patterns for common application architectures. 
• Collaboration across the TDI areas such as Hybrid Cloud Platform, Security, Data, Risk & Compliance areas to create optimum solutions for the business, increasing re-use, creating best practice and sharing knowledge. 
• Driving optimisations in the GCP and Hybrid cloud SDLC process to provide productivity improvements, including tools and techniques. 
• Enabling the adoption of practices such as SRE and DevSecOps to minimise toil and manual tasks and increase automation and stability. 
• Define and implement Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, and governance frameworks supporting self-service infrastructure provisioning.
• Collaborate with enterprise security, risk, and audit teams to enforce cloud compliance, controls, and policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel, Conftest).
• Partner with senior stakeholders across technology and business domains to enable multi-cloud delivery platforms with reusable infrastructure blueprints.
• Mentor and lead a team of cloud engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, and reliability.
• Actively contribute to the TDI-wide cloud governance board and cloud community of practice.

Your skills and experience

• You will be a hands-on engineer, focused on building working examples and reference implementations in code. 
• You have experience in implementing applications onto cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and usage of their major components (Software Defined Networks, IAM, Compute, Storage, etc.) to define cloud native application architectures such as Microservices, Service Mesh or Data Streaming applications.  
• You would adopt automation-first approaches to testing, deployment, security and compliance of solutions through Infrastructure as Code and automated policy enforcement.  
• You enjoy supporting our community of engineers and creating opportunities for progression, promoting continuous learning and skills development.
• Proven experience leading Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning at scale.
• Expertise in at least one major public cloud (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and GitOps principles.
• Experience with tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Vault, Terraform Enterprise/Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, workload identity federation, and encryption standards.

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.