SRE - Level 2 Production Lead, VP

Job Title: SRE - Level 2 Production Lead

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Deutsche Bank Group must be compliant with the new Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). PSD2 is adding requirements to payment services and expanding the scope on territorial and currency level (e.g. "one leg in", value dating). Its regulating third party access for Account Info Service Providers & Payment Initiation Service Providers and enhancing the security of online payments & account access (2-Factor-Authentication). Cross divisional and cross-country java-based application to handle 3rd party access for xs2a sandbox api under the payment service directive 2 (PSD2 regulation) for Europe. Since this is payment critical application, ensuring its stability in production is crucial.
• Given the high stakes of the PSD2 application, hiring additional team members is essential to mitigate operational risks, maintain production stability, and protect the organization’s reputation. These roles will provide the necessary redundancy, scalability, and incident-handling capabilities to ensure the application meets its service-level commitments and delivers a seamless customer experience.

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

• Monitor production systems for performance, availability, and anomalies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to PSD2 app, APIs, or infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams for bug fixes and enhancements.
• Provide application support by handling and consulting on BAU, Incidents/emails/alerts for the respective applications.
• Act as an escalation point for user issues and requests and from Level 1/L2 support.  Report issues to senior management.
• Manage and mentor regional L2 team to ensure the team is up to speed and picks up the support duties.
• Gain detailed knowledge of all business flows, the application architecture, and the hardware configuration for supported applications.
• Define, document, and maintain procedures, SLAs, and knowledge base to support the platforms to ensure consistent service levels are achieved across the global support team.
• Build and maintain effective and productive relationships with the stakeholders in business, development, infrastructure, and third-party systems / data providers.
• Manage incidents through resolution, keeping all stakeholders abreast of the situation and working to minimize impact wherever possible.
• Conduct post-mortems of incidents and drive relevant feedback into Incident, Problem and Change management programs.
• Facilitate coordination across L1/L2 and L3/Engineering teams to investigate and resolve an ongoing infrastructure/platform or application issue impacting multiple business lines.
• Drive the development and implementation of the tools and best practices needed to provide effective support.
• Collaborate with and deliver initiatives and install these initiatives to drive stability in the environment.
• Assist in the process to approve all new releases and production configuration changes; ensure development includes all necessary documentation for each change and conduct post-release testing where required.
• Perform reviews of all open production items with the development team and push for updates and resolutions to outstanding tasks and reoccurring issues.
• Regularly review and analyze service requests and issues that are raised; seek to improve the process and remove reoccurring tasks where possible.
• Perform reviews of existing monitoring for the platform and make improvements where possible.
• The candidate will have to work in shifts as part of a Rota covering EMEA hours and in the event of major outages or issues we may ask for flexibility to help provide appropriate cover.

Your skills and experience

• 5/10+ years hands on IT support and interacting with application end users.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and at executive levels.
• Understanding of ITIL / best practices for supporting a production environment
• Preferred: ITIL v3 foundation certification.
• Preferred: Experience in a financial institution or large corporation; good technology background.
• Preferred: Prior experience working in cloud based application.
• Understanding of how to get things done in large organizations, where to use processes and how to build and operate a network. 
• Ability to work across countries, regions, and time zones with a broad range of cultures and technical capability.

Technical competency

Technologies

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle, Postgress SQL
• Proficiency in configuring and managing Google Observability tools (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, and Error Reporting).

DevOps Tools

• Expertise in GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with GitHub for version control and collaboration.

Incident and Operations Management

• Familiarity with incident management processes for high-criticality systems.
• Strong skills in monitoring application performance, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

Soft Skills

• Excellent problem-solving abilities in high-pressure scenarios.
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment.

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.