ITAO - Directory Services, VP

Role Description

You will be working in the Chief Security Office Identity & Authentication Services with a focus on Directory Service-related products for Deutsche Bank globally.

Directory Services own the workforce Identity Providers that consist of Active Directory, Entra Identity and Google Cloud Identity. Although the existing team have coding skills and are deploying a CICD pipeline, our journey to SRE is far from complete, you will bring your experience in this field to help shape our teams SRE future.

Security and stability are our core focus on the solutions we provide.

Your key responsibilities

• Analyse, Automate, deploy, and maintain Entra Identity related components within our E5 estate.
• Private Preview investigation and MS product group interactions to shape their final releases to cover DBs business requirements.
• Perform SRE function(s) - availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of Entra service(s)
• CICD Pipelines, workflows, Action, and enhancements (Application integration pipeline for example)
• Identify and manage the risks and issues associated with the IDP(s) and escalate appropriately.
• Document associated solutions.
• Help up-skill existing team re code\SRE.
• Support internal audits and investigation associated with the IDPs
• Design & Own solutions from inception to release, including associated documentation.
• 3rd line support for operational incidents (rare)

Your skills and experience

• Expert knowledge of Entra Identity
• Expert knowledge of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
• GitHub Workflows
• Actions CICD pipelines
• Active Directory experience is very advantageous.
• Bachelors degree in computer science or comparable and at least more than 3 years hands-on experience working with AAD\EID
• Experience in cloud security.
• Advanced\Expert in IaC (infrastructure As Code)
• Advanced\Expert GitHub
• PowerShell/Graph/YAML
• Terraform/Stanzer/HCL
• MS Power Platform (App-Automate-Logic) experience (would be an advantage)
• You have experience working in dynamic, structured teams
• Experience\knowledge in Audit and Regulatory Internal Compliance
• Experience\knowledge in Infrastructure and Product Logistics
• Disaster Recovery.
• Technology Road Map Compliance. Migration and decommission. Infrastructure Configuration and Design.
• Knowledge of SDLC and Process Management
• Incident- and Problem Management, Unplanned maintenance.
• Operational Readiness.
• Knowledge in Vendor Management
• Scheduling regular catch-up meeting with vendor
• Knowledge in Data & Records Management
• GDPR
• CCSP, CISSP or other related industry qualifications are advantageous.Language skills: Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English, German language skills welcome.