DevOps Engineer
Role details
Job location
Tech stack
Job description
Our Quantitative Fixed Income (QFI) Engineering team, part of the Group Strategy Analytics (GSA) group, builds applications that deliver quantitatively driven pricing and trading solutions for the Rates & Credit business.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable build and deployment automation for high-performance trading systems. In this role, you will own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and platform level, data driven automation workflows, develop high-quality automation solutions, and work closely with engineering, quant research, and production support teams to deliver repeatable, secure systems with strong observability across environments., * In close partnership with Quant Research, design, build, and operate research environments that support data refinement, transformation, and aggregated results collection (using technologies such as Python, Q/KDB, VictoriaMetrics). Plan, build, and support an infrastructure orchestration layer to run and monitor research experiments and automate the generation of calibration parameters for trading strategies.
- Develop and operate CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity), including quality gates, approvals, artifact management, and rollback strategies. Own build and deployment automation across environments (dev/test/stage/prod), ensuring releases are repeatable, secure, and reliable.
- Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline and deployment failures end-to-end (source control, build, artifacts, runtime, connectivity, permissions) and drive root-cause fixes.
- Improve observability and operational readiness for the build/deploy process (logging, metrics, alerts, runbooks) and continuously refine automation standards., In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Nana Darko.
Requirements
- Strong scripting skills (Python strongly preferred; Bash/shell required). Ability to produce clean, testable and maintainable automation code.
- Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, including branching strategies, artifact management, secrets handling, and deployment promotion.
- Unix/Linux skills: process, filesystem, permissions, services, troubleshooting, and performance basics.
- Good networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, ports, routing basics, TLS certificates; ability to debug connectivity issues with standard tools.
- Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative engineering practices (code review, documentation, automation-first mindset).
- Comfort working in incident-driven environments: clear communication, structured troubleshooting, and post-incident improvements.
- Monitoring/logging experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk/ELK) and building operational dashboards.
- Awareness of kdb+ / KDB database technology and/or experience with other NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch): fundamentals, common operational patterns, and deployment considerations.
About the company
For over 150 years we have been there for our clients every step of the way. Our purpose: ‘Dedicated to our clients’ lasting success and financial security at home and abroad’ guides our vision and strategy, and is brought to life by our culture. With a global presence in about 60 countries, and a diverse workforce of more than 90,000 people, we know that each individual’s daily actions shape our culture.
Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin
DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.
Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.