Description
Role summary
Reporting to the Head of Storage Engineering, the successful candidate will have act as the Cloud Engineer within the Storage Build Team. The individual is accountable for the product engineering activities for all Storage Services initiatives including RTB, CTB, and externally funded CTB for all storage and backup technologies.
The Cloud Engineer is responsible for architecting and engineering storage and backup solutions for cloud. The Cloud Engineer works closely with technology stakeholders to develop lean and highly standardised solutions to serve the growing demand for flexible and reliable storage and backup solutions.
This high-energy, results-oriented job requires a balance of strong people skills, leadership, technical skills and business processes, a sense of urgency resolving problem issues, creativity, work schedule flexibility, adaptability to changing business conditions, and a commitment to a positive customer experience.
Role responsibilities
The Storage BUILD function is primarily responsible for Deployment and Product Engineering tasks. This includes matching application requirements to standard infrastructure products and using build capabilities across all technology domains.
Responsibilities:
- Engineer, define and document best practices and strategies regarding application and infrastructure deployment related to backup and storage services migrating to the cloud.
- Develop storage configurations and offerings in the organization that is strategic, innovative and can scale out globally
- Set global engineering build standards that our business units can leverage to make their time to market faster and more successful. With the same token, our operations and support teams can install, configure, and support in an efficient, well-documented manner.
- Establishing and maintaining close, collaborative working relationships with and between Agile team members and stakeholders to provide transparency and create accountability
- Engage a wide stakeholder community and our suppliers to gain their participation in collaborative design processes and ensure their support for implementing change
- Work with end-to-end process owners and managers to identify improvement opportunities, define the associated KPIs and MI required, diagnose issues, and recommend solutions that deliver results.
- Automate the build and delivery of cloud infrastructure through reusable automation.
- Build best in class migration factory principles and process for SAN, NAS and Backup
- Implement multi-year product roadmap
- Ensure potential solutions are compliant to Deutsche Bank's given security standards
- Maintain Tech Direct product updates and relationships
- Test planning and System Interface Testing (SIT)
Experience required
Infrastructure:
- Experience in implementation cloud tools and technologies and able to demonstrate subject matter expertise on cloud native applications, services and Infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of infrastructure technology across a broad range of infrastructure products and their supporting data centers, specifically those corresponding to storage and backup services
- Strong architectural understanding through all architectural disciplines (business, data, application, technical and security)
Business Management:
- Track record of successful delivery of complex transformation within global organization.
- Relevant experience working in the Financial Services industry
- Significant experience in identifying opportunities for improvement in existing processes/functions in alignment with the objectives of the Target Operating Model
- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to develop, articulate and sell a vision.
Capabilities required
Technical Competencies
- Cloud platform knowledge: (GCP Professional Architect Certification advantageous)
- Storage engineering experience in SAN, NAS, Backup.
- Programming and Scripting languages (Python, Bash, Javascript)
- Automation tools (Anisble, Puppet, Chef, Terraform)
- Issue tracking and collaboration (Jira, Confluence)
DB Leadership Capabilities
- Business Judgement
- Inspirational Leadership
- Building Talent
- Influence
- Direction
- Execution
- Competitive Edge
- Collaboration