Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 3,000+ 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.

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 seeking 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.

About the team:

This is an exciting role in our onboarding scrum team which is part of the larger global onboarding structure. The role will provide an opportunity to work with Microsoft Azure cloud technologies in a team that adopts DevOps methodologies at an ambitious and growing company.

Why this role is important to us:

Our Senior Site Reliability Engineers will provide a stable infrastructure platform throughout our clients initial onboarding journey with SimCorp -whether that will be a greenfield project, or a migration of an existing client to our Azure cloud. The SRE will be responsible for aligning client requirements to standard features as well as deploying those features using automated technologies. Our SREs are at the forefront of delivering technology-enabled services to our clients in a fast-paced, evolving team.

What you will be responsible for:

As our Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• 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

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. A Master's degree is considered a plus.

• 3 years of operational experience with troubleshooting mission-critical software systems.

• Hands-on experience with Public Cloud environments, primarily Azure, AWS Exposure is helpful. Certification is a plus.

• 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:

• Comfort and resilience working in a dynamic environment that can be stressful at times.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps for deployment automation, especially Jenkins.

• 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).

Benefits 

An attractive salary, bonus scheme and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

Visit our career pages to learn more about working at SimCorp: www.simcorp.com/career

NEXT STEPS 

Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your CV in English as soon as possible. If your interest in joining SimCorp persists, but uncertainty surrounds the suitability of this particular role, please feel free to send in your CV regardless. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist 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.

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