Job Description:
Job Title Hybrid Cloud Estate Manager
Location London
Corporate Title Assistant Vice President
The Estate Manager (EM) is responsible for governing, maintaining and assuring the integrity of the organisation’s IT estate across its full lifecycle. This includes ownership of asset visibility, technology obsolescence, patching compliance, and control frameworks covering hybrid cloud infrastructure such as servers, storage and appliances.
You will act as the central point of accountability for ensuring that estate-related risks are actively managed, compliance is sustained, and that all assets – particularly those impacted by change initiatives – are appropriately tracked, governed and delivered against agreed outcomes.
Critically, the EM function transitions the organisation from remediation into sustainable BAU operations, ensuring that improvements in compliance and control are maintained over time.
What we’ll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- 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
- Support audit readiness by driving data reconciliation across Configuration Management Database (CMDB), platform inventories, and central asset management
- Oversee adherence to patching policies and consequence management processes
- Work with Technology Owners to ensure timely replacement of EOL assets including adherence to the risk management process
- Continuously monitor the estate against defined KPIs, transitioning improved compliance posture into steady state operations
- Provide governance oversight to ensure accurate application disposition records in OneMi as well as ensuring projects are delivered in alignment with agreed dispositions and timelines
- Collate, develop and present business cases to secure approval and funding for projects necessary to meet risk reduction and audit objectives, and lead the delivery of initiatives ensuring alignment to estate management standards and controls
Your skills and experience
- Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail, able to interpret complex data, produce reports and translate insights into actionable outcomes for senior management
- Advanced excel skills with the ability to build automated reporting solutions, dashboards and executive level presentations
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence, engage and drive outcomes in challenging environments
- Collaborative and pragmatic working style, building effective relationships across teams while maintaining governance and delivery standards
- Project management experience, including leading complex risk reduction and major upgrade programmes
- Solid technical background in hybrid cloud environments, including compute, virtualization and storage as well as experience in patch management and technology lifecycle/obsolescence management
How we’ll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
- 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. Click here to see what we do.
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.
