Lead Site Reliability Engineer

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

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 innovative and growing company.

Our Lead 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 pivotal in delivering technology-enabled services to our clients in a strategically evolving team.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

As our Lead 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 facilitate 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

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3 years of operational experience with addressing mission-critical software system issues.
• Practical experience with Public Cloud environments, primarily Azure, AWS Exposure is helpful.
• Solid understanding/experience of networking, virtualization, storage, secrets management, messaging and serverless computing.
• Experience with Linux and Windows systems and experience in systems administration.
• Experience Using Command line (CLI) style interfaces.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Comfort and proficiency working in a challenging work setting 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).
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana).

BENEFITS

Attractive salary and bonus scheme 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 an work & private life balance. We also practice a tailored approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.