IB CTO Team - Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Vice President

Deutsche Bank

Hybrid Actively hiring
Cary, NC Posted 32 days ago $125,000–$185,000 / year
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TL;DR

As a Vice President and Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at the Investment Banking Chief Technology Office in Cary, NC, you will lead the strategic direction of SRE across critical applications and platforms on GCP and on-premises infrastructure. Your daily responsibilities include driving automation and tooling innovation to reduce operational overhead, defining and institutionalizing SRE practices such as SLIs/SLOs, and mentoring engineers to ensure sustainable solutions. You will work with advanced technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform-based IaC, GitOps deployments, and modern CI/CD pipelines while fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement across geographically distributed teams. The role requires expertise in cloud architecture, observability, and system design, as well as strong leadership and communication skills to influence cross-functional teams and align technical strategies with business objectives in the highly regulated financial services industry.

Skills

GCP Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD FluxCD CI/CD Python Go Java Observability AIOps SLOs SLIs IaC GitOps DevOps Monitoring Alerting Logging Incident Management Post-mortems

What you'll do

  • Lead platform reliability and scalability strategy across complex distributed systems on GCP and on-prem.
  • Define and institutionalize SRE operational excellence practices for incident management and problem prevention.
  • Drive automation innovation to reduce toil, leveraging advanced self-healing capabilities and mentoring engineers.
  • Establish SLIs/SLOs for mission-critical services, aligning reliability metrics with business objectives.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor on reliability, risk, and resilience topics across application teams.
  • Provide architectural stewardship in IaC, capacity planning, and operational documentation to ensure scalability.

What we're looking for

  • Deep mastery of SRE practices including SLOs/SLIs and incident management.
  • Expertise in designing large-scale GCP platforms with hands-on Kubernetes leadership.
  • Experience leading IaC, GitOps deployments, and modern CI/CD transformations.
  • Advanced observability skills in monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies.
  • Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues across domains.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills for technical and business stakeholders.
  • Financial services experience with understanding of compliance and security requirements.

Market check

Salary context

This $125,000–$185,000 range sits above 32% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$138,720–$209,665

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$149,375–$204,112

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company offering corporate banking, investment banking, retail banking, asset management, and transaction banking worldwide. Industry: Investment Banking & Financial Services

Deutsche Bank currently has 37 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $120,000–$153,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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