Platform Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering- Vice President

Job Title:

Platform Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering VP
Corporate

Title:

Vice President

Location:

Cary, NC

In short - an essential part of Deutsche Bank's technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands‑on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Investment Banking is a technology-driven business powered by highly reliable, scalable, and automated platforms. We are seeking a highly technical Platform Engineering & SRE Vice President to join the Investment Banking Chief Technology Office (IB CTO) team in Cary, NC. This is a hands‑on engineering leadership role focused on designing, building, and evolving cloud‑native platform capabilities that enable application teams to deliver resilient, scalable, and observable services  successful candidate will combine deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud platforms, automation, observability, and software engineering to improve platform reliability and developer productivity across the Investment Banking technology landscape.

You will work directly with engineering teams to implement SRE principles, develop shared platform services, automate operational processes, and build self‑service capabilities that reduce complexity and accelerate software delivery. This role requires significant hands‑on technical contribution alongside leadership and mentoring responsibilities.

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of cloud‑native platform capabilities supporting critical Investment Banking applications across GCP and hybrid environments.
• Engineer scalable, resilient Kubernetes‑based platforms and shared services that improve application reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Develop and implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code, Git Ops, and automation solutions using Terraform, ArgoCD, and modern CI/CD practices to enable consistent, self‑service deployments.
• Build and enhance observability capabilities through monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry frameworks that provide actionable insights into platform and application health.
• Partner with application engineering teams to establish and implement SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering practices across distributed systems.
• Contribute hands‑on to platform tooling, automation frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and reliability solutions while driving continuous improvements in scalability, resiliency, security, and cost efficiency.

• Lead through technical expertise, architectural influence, and hands‑on contribution to strategic platform engineering initiatives.
• Mentor engineers on cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, SRE principles, observability, and infrastructure automation best practices.
• Collaborate with application development, cloud, and infrastructure teams to embed reliability, automation, and engineering excellence throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

• Deep hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating large‑scale distributed systems using modern SRE and Platform Engineering principles.
• Expert knowledge of GCP services, Kubernetes (GKE), containerization, networking, security, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong software engineering and automation experience using Python, Go, Java, or similar languages to develop platform tooling and operational automation.
• Extensive experience implementing Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform, Git Ops deployment models, and CI/CD automation pipelines.
• Advanced expertise in observability engineering, including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, telemetry, and performance optimization.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, fault tolerance, scalability patterns, and reliability engineering practices.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex produc