Senior Production Engineer

Position Overview

Job Title Senior Production Engineer

Location London

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

At Deutsche Bank, we are dedicated to creating solutions that are both meaningful and highly scalable. We are currently looking for an experienced professional to join our Production Engineering team. As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability and reliability of our application platforms by maintaining the smooth operation of the underlying infrastructure and ensuring that systems and applications function as expected

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Oversee regional production support services, lead the Production team, and drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) adoption with a focus on prioritisation and risk management
• Manage major incidents to resolution, keeping stakeholders informed and minimising impact, foster effective relationships with business stakeholders, engineering colleagues, vendor teams, and infrastructure
• Develop expertise in supported applications, including business flows, architecture, and hardware configuration
• Provide technical and thought leadership in incident and service request management, ensuring monitoring meets SLA/KPI targets and maximises application uptime.
• Assist in approving new releases and production changes, keep stakeholders informed, and ensure production readiness criteria are met
• Maintain up-to-date support runbooks and knowledge articles and promote a proactive and predictive support approach using SRE techniques

Your skills and experience

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information to a non-technical audience up to the most senior level
• Drive production transformation agenda (including automation, AI/ML solutions) and foster a production engineering culture
• Experience with relational database management systems, troubleshooting, using monitoring, Service Management tools (ServiceNow, JIRA) and scheduling tools (e.g., Geneos, Netcool, Control-M, Autosys)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT-related discipline (or equivalent work experience/diploma); experienced in ITIL/DevOps/SRE (ITIL v3 foundation certification, DevOps certification/Cloud Certification).
• Exposure to Agile methodologies; experienced in influencing and engaging stakeholders to support production strategy
• Advantageous: Experience with data transformation/dataflow processing (Big Data technologies), cloud platforms, observability tools/techniques, DevOps and exposure to BFSI domain

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

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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.