Backend Engineer
Cloud Platform Engineer (Securities and Derivatives Trading Platforms)
Commerzbank Digital Technology Centre Bulgaria
Sofia
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Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. The world is changing, becoming digital, and so are we. We are leaving the traditional bank behind us and we are choosing to move forward as a digital enterprise.
As part of this strategy, Commerzbank continues the expansion of its Digital Technology Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. We need motivated people who will join us on this journey and we are looking f
or a Cloud Platform Engineer
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As part of the Commerzbank Delivery Organization, the cluster “Securities and derivatives trading platforms” is responsible for the design, delivery and operation of Commerzbank’s primary and secondary trading business in rates, credit and equity products. As such we form a team of 160+ people working from 4 locations in different countries. Currently we cover almost 80 IT systems.
This role is for a Cloud Platform Engineer that is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based capabilities to support business applications in an investment bank. It involves working closely with software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to ensure robust, scalable, and secure cloud-based technology environments.
Your responsibilities would consist of:
- Designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based platforms and capabilities with Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and relevant technologies – ideally open source.
- Driving up developer experience, enhancing ability to provision, configuring, and deploying applications within cloud platforms.
- Providing means for development teams to manage and optimize cloud resources to ensure high performance and cost-efficiency.
- Designing platforms with security in mind, including implementing access control and data protection strategies.
- Automating cloud operations using infrastructure-as-code and cloud tooling.
- Advising delivery teams on performance tuning and capacity planning for cloud environments.
- Providing capabilities for support and operations teams to monitor cloud systems, ensure up time, and respond to incidents and outages promptly. Providing training where required.
- Documenting processes and procedures related to cloud platforms.
- Providing technical guidance to teams and stakeholders on cloud-based systems and services.
- Staying updated with emerging cloud technologies and best practices and integrating them into current systems and processes.
The skills and experience we would like you to have:
- Core competency in the engineering and deployment of Kubernetes clusters and applications.
- Proven experience with cloud service providers such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. This includes engineering the platforms themselves, and frequently used platform capabilities such as object storage, file storage, and serverless compute.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, services, and best practices.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and configuration management such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize.
- Broad experience with Linux, including scripting and programming skills in Bash, Python or other higher-level scripting languages.
- Core competency in networking, both cloud and on-premise. This includes TCP/IP, VPCs/VNets, routing, packet filtering, subnetting, load balancers and proxies, API gateways and DNS management.
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes networking, including Services, Ingress, Network Policies, Gateway API, and experience with troubleshooting network issues in Kubernetes clusters.
- Knowledge of Information Security protocols, tools, best practices, including TLS/certificates, OAuth2, and cryptographic best practices.
- Excellent collaboration and team building skills.
- Solution-focused and committed to high quality delivery and team performance.
In return, we offer:
- Good work-life balance, including 25 days annual paid leave (increasing with 1 day per year up to 31 in total), flexible working hours, work-from-home and work from abroad opportunities;
- Luxury package of additional health and dental insurance;
- Food vouchers in the amount of EUR 80 monthly;
- 6 additional annual days off for exceptional circumstances
- Employee assistance program for psychological, financial and legal consultations;
- Multisport card;
- Annual contribution of EUR 153.39 net per child for a summer camp/school/kindergarten for children up to 15 years;
- Possibilities for building career-advancing skills by covering training/certification courses and conferences based on individual learning and development needs, access to an online learning platform;
- Opportunities for long-term professional development in a stable, 150-year-old company while contributing to the vision of a new, just starting Digital Technology Center;
- Friendly and supportive multicultural environment, open to new opinions and ideas.
Commerzbank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability or any other characteristics.
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