Lead Platform Engineer (f/m/x) – SWIFT

Lead Platform Engineer (f/m/x) – SWIFT

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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.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership of SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA) and SWIFTNet Link (SNL) platforms, ensuring maximum availability, performance, and security.
• System Integration: Design, implement, and manage integrations between the SWIFT platform and other internal processing systems, middleware, and applications.
• Oversee all aspects of the platform lifecycle, including capacity planning, version upgrades, patching, and disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Lead incident and problem management efforts, providing deep technical analysis to rapidly resolve complex issues across the application, database, and operating system layers.
• Represent Deutsche Bank in German and European technical forums and SWIFT advisory groups, contributing to industry standards and bringing back key insights to inform our strategy.
• Work closely with operations, infrastructure, network, and cybersecurity teams to ensure cohesive and secure end‑to‑end solutions.

Skills & Experiences

• Expert‑level knowledge of Linux/UNIX including system administration, performance tuning, and shell scripting.
• Strong proficiency with Oracle databases, including administration, SQL, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience in a high‑availability, 24/7 production environment where stability is paramount.
• Experience with high‑load systems and performance testing and tuning.
• Knowledge of messaging middleware IBM MQ and Kafka.
• Solid understanding of networks, firewalls and network protocols (TCP/IP, SSL/TLS).
• Familiarity with modern monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Understanding of public key infrastructure (PKI), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), and cryptographic principles.
• Experience working within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Experience administering and supporting the SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SAA and SWIFTNet Link (SNL) platforms in a large‑scale financial institution would be an asset.

What We Offer

• Emotionally and mentally balanced – we offer consultation in difficult life situations and mental health awareness trainings.
• Physically thriving – we support you in staying physically fit through health check‑ups, vaccination drives and nutrition advice.
• Socially connected – we provide networking, PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (parttime, hybrid, job tandem) and a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Financially secure – we provide pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.

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