Senior Airflow/ Cloud Engineer (Workload Automation) in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Service Automation provides an integrated set of management tools for IT professionals to programmatically provision and automate the operational maintenance of their hybrid application environment. It focuses on the following key capabilities:

• Technology Operations Automation
• Provisioning and Configuration
• Workload Automation
• Orchestration Development

This software engineering position is specifically focused within Workload Automation and is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, automation, emergency response, and capacity planning for the centralized platforms of Control-M, Automic, Airflow as well as Google services Cloud Composer, Workflows and Scheduler which are utilized across the Bank for workload automation/job scheduling/batch job management.

This position will complement someone with a software engineering mindset, who is proficient coding with Python, has experience with API integration and orchestration, ServiceNOW integration and Ansible yaml development to proactively build and implement services for Control-M, Automic and Google Cloud Composer automation.

Working as an engineer you will bridge the gap between development and operations. Further, you will architect, design and develop new features as well as expand and support existing features. You are expected to learn new technologies based on what we already deploy while also learning new technologies that will enhance our offerings.

What we’ll offer you:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a wide range of technological expertise including Airflow, Google Cloud Platform, Control-M or Automic and a general understanding of industry practice around REST based API orchestration.
• Be an active, contributing engineer for the integration of Apache Airflow into the IT landscape by technically and organisationally helping to drive the adoption.
• Design and implementation of new concepts for improvement or replacement of existing processes, especially from Control-M or Automic towards Airflow or Google Cloud Composer.
• Integration, configuration, upgrade, maintenance and introduction of new capabilities to our critical Workload Automation products responsible for batch scheduling and API orchestration.
• Being able to design concepts and take over development activities, identify automation opportunities as well as solutions in a self-reliant manner.
• Sound and relevant Airflow or Workload Automation architecture experience is a must.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Workload automation tooling, preferably Apache Airflow, Control-M and/or Google Cloud Composer using standard agile SDLC techniques.
• Experience in developing guidelines for Airflow clusters and DAG's, working knowledge of performance tuning of the DAG's and task implementation, developing DAG - data pipeline to on-board and change management of datasets.
• Experience with installing, configuring and monitoring Airflow cluster, strong Python.
• Understanding of Airflow rest services and integration of Airflow ON A platform eco-system.
• Hands on experience in Google Cloud Platform using following GCP services Terraform, Cloud Composer, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Dataproc, Google Transfer Service, Postgres.

How we’ll support you:

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.

We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).

About us:

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively. Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.