Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About the role

Deutsche Bank is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Birmingham. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on improving the reliability, availability, performance and operational resilience of critical services. You will apply software engineering practices to operations, reduce operational toil and build scalable, secure and observable platforms across hybrid-cloud environments, defining and managing SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.

Key responsibilities

• Improve the availability, stability and performance of the Control-M and UC4 platforms by defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and service-health reporting.
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting and capacity management so that job failures and performance issues are resolved before affecting critical workloads.
• Lead production incident response and problem management, reduce recurring failures and shorten mean time to recovery.
• Automate provisioning, upgrades, certificate management, health checks and recovery activities for Control-M and UC4.
• Improve the safety of upgrades, agent deployments and configuration changes through automated validation, rollback controls, resilience testing and runbooks.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security and service teams to ensure accountability, timely remediation and compliance with operational, security, audit and regulatory requirements.

Required profile

• Strong hands-on experience administering and engineering enterprise Control-M and UC4/Automic platforms, including architecture, agents, scheduling, upgrades, patching, integrations and high-availability configurations.
• Proven SRE experience improving workload automation reliability through SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, performance tuning and disaster-recovery testing.
• Demonstrable expertise in incident response, root-cause analysis and problem management, with a track record of reducing recurring job failures.
• Ability to mentor engineers in modern SRE practices and to promote a culture of learning, reliability and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to use AI tools to boost productivity while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Required skills

• Scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to automate provisioning, upgrades, certificate management, health checks and recovery.
• Monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and performance tuning.

What we offer

• Hybrid working for eligible employees.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy extra days.
• Life assurance and private healthcare for you and your family.
• Retail discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and gym benefits.
• Training and development, flexible benefits tailored to your needs, and 2 days' volunteering leave per year.