AVP Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes Platform

About the role

Deutsche Bank is looking for a hands-on AVP Site Reliability Engineer in Bangalore to work on its CaaS Private platform, an advanced on-premises Kubernetes platform built on Google Distributed Cloud. The role covers diagnosing and resolving complex production issues across application, platform, network, storage and infrastructure layers, and driving root-cause resolution through observability signals and tenant impact.

Key responsibilities

• Define, implement and improve service-level indicators, objectives, alerting standards and error budgets for the platform and its critical services.
• Maintain observability across metrics, logs, traces, alerts and dashboards covering health, saturation, latency, capacity and failure modes.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues in Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, ingress, service mesh, node services and tenant workloads.
• Lead or coordinate incident response, with timely mitigation, clear stakeholder communication, blameless post-incident reviews and follow-up actions.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, diagnostics and remediation workflows to reduce toil and speed recovery.
• Improve reliability, upgrade safety, resilience, capacity planning, performance, disaster recovery and operational readiness.
• Partner with platform, network, security, storage and application teams on release readiness, troubleshooting, change execution and documentation.
• Support the global GDC/Kubernetes platform in a 24x7 follow-the-sun model, including on-call, weekend and public-holiday rotation.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline, with 10-12 years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps or a closely related infrastructure role.
• Demonstrated SRE mindset and experience with SLI/SLO/SLA management, error budgets, incident reduction, capacity planning and resilience engineering.
• Strong Linux system administration and networking fundamentals, and strong automation and scripting experience.
• Ability to communicate clearly, collaborate across teams, prioritize under pressure and take complex problems from symptom to durable solution.

Required skills

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes expertise, including Helm, Operators and workload lifecycle management in bare-metal or private-cloud environments.
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, distributed tracing, logging, alerting and OpenTelemetry-style concepts.
• Automation and scripting with Python, Bash and Ansible.
• CI/CD and GitOps platforms such as Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub or Bitbucket, and Artifactory.
• Incident management, root-cause analysis, virtualization, containerization and distributed-system behavior under failure.
• Nice to have: CKA or CKAD, Istio or Envoy, Cilium, OPA Gatekeeper, Ceph/Rook, stateful services (PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB), load testing, chaos testing, and familiarity with regulated or low-latency environments.

What we offer

• Flexible leave policy and gender-neutral parental leave.
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit.
• Certification and education sponsorship, Employee Assistance Program, hospitalization insurance, accident and term life insurance, and health screening for those aged 35 and above.
• Training, coaching and a culture of continuous learning.