Job Description

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead, VP

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Job ID:

R0402474

Full/Part-Time:

Full-time

Regular/Temporary:

Regular

Listed:

2025-09-05

Location:

Pune

Position Overview

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Job Title:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead

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.

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

Maintaining overall availability of the trading platform Responding to user queries and requests in a timely manner; being a Subject Matter Expert Identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues impacting the business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals Ensuring internal postmortems include strategic follow-ups, in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incidents Identifying and implementing potential automation opportunities such as self-healing scripts to reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve resiliency Conducting Start of Week/Day checks, observing and acting on monitoring alerts, and keeping oversight of high-profile technology processes, particularly those relating to exchange obligations Acting as the gatekeeper to production; critically reviewing all changes prior to deployments and conducting post-change validation checks (may include some Out of Hours activities) Working closely with Project Managers, Functional Business Analysts, and Developers to introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform Setting up new & maintaining existing Monitoring environments; strong focus on observability for early issue detection of latency, capacity, etc Participating in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities) Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives Engagement in wider Technology forums, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science events, etc

Your skills and experience

A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) 10yrs+ industry experience, predominantly within the Front Office Application Support domain Prior leadership experience essential; managing teams of 5+ Strong technical skills (Unix, SQL, Python, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, Prometheus, etc); previous exposure to programming languages would be advantageous Critical thinking mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment Good understanding of Fixed Income Currencies Businesses such as Rates, Credit & Repo. Familiarity across the ITIL framework in Change, Incident, and Problem Management; as well as awareness of Agile concepts across the Software Development Life Cycle. Exceptional verbal and written skills, to communicate effectively with business users, technology peers, and senior management alike 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

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

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.