Kotlin DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud Platform)

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Location: London

AMS is the world’s leading provider of Talent Acquisition and Management Services. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) service, partner with Deutsche Bank to support contingent recruitment processes.

On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for aKotlin DevOps Engineer for a 6 month contract based in the bank’s London office on a hybrid working model of 3 days per week in the office and 2 from home.

Deutsche Bank is a global banking business with strong roots in Germany and operations in over 70 countries. Their large but focused footprint gives an established position in Europe plus a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.

‘Together we’re sharing new perspectives and transforming what it means to be a bank.’

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Kotlin, delivering high-quality, resilient solutions in a large enterprise environment.
• Build and operate cloud-native infrastructure, leveraging modern DevOps practices to ensure reliability, performance and security.
• Work primarily in mobs, sharing ownership of design and code.
• Build, test, and evolve services with a strong focus on clarity, simplicity and maintainability.
• Support the platform in production, using incidents and defects as opportunities to improve system design and resilience.
• Close interaction with different teams and stakeholders.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong commercial experience building backend services in Kotlin.
• Proven DevOps Engineer experience operating within a large organisation.
• Experienced with event sourced and event driven architecture.
• Deep experience with XP practices, including:
  • Mob programming as a primary way of working
  • Test‑driven development (TDD)
  • Continuous refactoring and clean code discipline
• Cloud experience, ideally GCP (Google Cloud Platform) including designing, deploying and operating cloud-native solutions using services such as:
  • GKE and / or Cloud Run
  • Cloud SQL, Memorystore
  • Key Management
  • Terraform
• CI/CD and SDLC experience in a regulated / enterprise environment.
• Comfortable working in production systems with high availability and correctness requirements.

Deutsche Bank’s values define the working environment they strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. They embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. They build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage their people to develop to their full potential.

The Bank promotes good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. They welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs, and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

This client will only accept workers operating via a PAYE engagement model.

AMS’s payroll service is in partnership with Giant, we have worked with them for many years and have good processes in place to ensure you get the best service. If you are successful in your application for this role, your contract will be via Giant. For more information on Giant, please follow this link: https://ams-giant-paye-introduction.

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