Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE/Azure)

Who we are:

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 2,800+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients, with SimCorp as the overarching company brand and Axioma as a key product brand.

As a global provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) investment management solutions, SimCorp supports clients 24/7 through delivery centers around the world. Our Global Delivery Centers are located in Manila in the Philippines, Noida in India, Kyiv in Ukraine, Warsaw in Poland, and in Mexico City, Mexico.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated in our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

While aiming to deliver client value, we believe it is vital to consider our people and our planet in every business decision we make. Acting responsibly is not optional. It is essential.

Why this role is important to us:

In SaaS Operations - your future department - our strategic roadmap is summed up in one word: Scale. We need to deliver a reliable and ever evolving platform for our clients to run their business critical processes on using SimCorp’s products. To ensure the best possible position, we’re building our cloud platform operations department around the SRE principles, and you’re invited to assist us build this from the ground up.

In your daily work you will be collaborating with experienced operations engineers and all of our agile DevOps teams in our sister department SaaS Innovation. Your focus will be on technical deliveries, troubleshooting and continuous improvements to our platform, while also acting as an integral part of our feedback loop to developers both of platform and software features of SimCorp’s products. You will be part of a highly, collaborative, inclusive and iterative delivery environment, with colleagues that are motivated by doing things that are equally important and impressive.

What you will be responsible for:

The focus of the SRE team is to support and operate our SaaS platform for our clients, always doing this with an eye on improving our deliveries and thinking about how to use our maintenance budget in the wisest and most scalable way. As an SRE engineer with SaaS Operations, your responsibilities would include:

• Manage and troubleshoot pipelines for client onboarding within the Azure platform.
• Understand Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) platform and align client requirements to existing features.
• Identify, define and scope new features when necessary. 
• Schedule batch jobs based on input from clients using an enterprise scheduler. 
• Collaborate with clients to optimize scheduled jobs to be event driven using an enterprise scheduler. 
• Participate in problem management for Azure technology platform. 
• Provide weekend support as needed to ensure platform availability. 
• Lead design workshops with clients, vendors and other key stakeholders, both onsite and virtually. 
• Mentor junior colleagues to foster knowledge sharing and team development.
• Work effectively within an Agile team to deliver complex onboarding programs in a sprint-based approach. 
• Perform configuration Management and Disaster Recovery tasks on a new environment. 

What we value:

As a global company, people are the utmost important asset we have. We are committed to being a place for you to grow personally as well as professionally. While we value seniority and experience it is not a requirement for this position. We are looking for people with experience in development and system operations in a true cloud context – and most importantly, we are in the market for high agency professionals. Our delivery area is vast and full of opportunities, the follow is a non-exhaustive list of attributes that we look for in our applicants:

Essential Qualifications & Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of operational experience with troubleshooting mission-critical software systems. Experience in financial services industry is advantageous. 
• Hands-on experience with Public Cloud environments, primarily Azure, AWS Exposure is great. Certification is advantageous. 
• Solid understanding/experience of networking, virtualization, storage, secrets management, messaging and serverless computing. 
• Experience with Linux and Windows systems, ideally with experience in systems administration. 
• Experience Using Command line (CLI) style interfaces. 

Essential Skills and Competencies: 

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. 
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities. 
• Comfort and motivation working in a diverse environment that can be stressful at times. 
• A methodical and structured approach to requirements. 
• Willingness and ability to learn new technology and tools. 
• Comfortable working with infrastructure as code. 
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible and ARM. 
• Knowledge of Version Control tool such as Github. 
• Experience/Understanding of containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker). 
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana). 
• Able to write basic relational database queries. 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps for deployment automation, especially Jenkins. 
• Postman and Rest API

Others:

• Hybrid working arrangement

Next Steps:

Please click the “Apply” button to learn more about the vacancy and what SimCorp has to offer regarding salary, benefits, and perks. Please note only applications sent through our system will be processed. Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your CV in English as soon as possible.

If you are interested in being part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is the right fit, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to help you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

By Joining our team, you will have the chance to:

• Become part of a thriving company comprising collaborative, curious, courageous, and capable employees
• Explore a multitude of exciting learning and development opportunities, supported by our unique learning guild
• Engage with highly skilled and supportive colleagues, each bringing their diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• Join a company that not only values but actively advocates for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, fostering a truly inclusive and empowering environment

**SimCorp proudly announces the official certification of its Manila Delivery Center as a Great Place To Work, a remarkable achievement within just two and a half years of operations. This certification which was acquired in November 2023, underscores SimCorp's commitment to nurturing a workplace that is not only inclusive and collaborative but also dedicated to the personal and professional growth of its employees.**

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