Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure+PowerShell)

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.

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

We are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with expertise in automation, Infrastructure as Code, and Azure cloud design. In this role, you will shape the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud platforms, leading by example in designing frameworks, eliminating toil, and mentoring others. You will work closely with SRE, DevOps and security teams to drive best practices across automation, observability, CI/CD, and identity and access management

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Lead the design and implementation of automation frameworks for infrastructure and application delivery, using Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.
• Define and evolve pipelines.
• Architect and implement self healing mechanisms that allow systems to automatically detect, remediate, and recover from failures without human intervention.
• Champion observability practices by building reliable monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions, with a preference for DataDog.
• Eliminate toil through proactive automation, process improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Drive a zero-tolerance approach to vulnerabilities, ensuring infrastructure and pipelines are secured by design and continuously monitored for weaknesses.
• Guide secret management and IAM strategy, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant access to cloud resources.
• Identify automation candidates by managing support cases within the incident management process, taking ownership of client-reported issues and providing up to Level-3 support to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve problems with the Client Reporting Platform.
• Automate regular maintenance and upgrade work such as Windows Server patching, infrastructure and application upgrades, license management, service and system restart.
• Follow guiding principle of self service enablement first for service requests for internal and external clients such as environment refreshes, data migrations, deploying Virtual Machine resources and installing whitelisted software.
• Act as a trusted advisor for engineering and operations teams, teaching sysadmins and engineers how to extend and maintain automation frameworks.
• Provide technical mentorship across the SRE team and partner functions.
• Collaborate with product and platform stakeholders to ensure reliability, security, and resilience are baked into design decisions.
• Provide on-call support outside of regular working hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

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.

• 5–7+ years of hands-on experience in automation, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD engineering, demonstrated through project delivery, tooling implementation, and measurable improvements in deployment or operational efficiency.
• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Windows network/system administration including Active Directory Domain Services (DNS, DFS, GPO), Remote Desktop Services, IIS (incl. SSL Certificates).
• Solid software engineering mindset and background.
• Experience with self healing architectures and designing fault tolerant systems.
• Knowledge and experience of core networking principles such as IP addressing, routing, VPNs and layer 3 and 7 of the OSI model.
• Extensive experience in observability and monitoring, preferably with DataDog
• Skilled in secret management and identity/access management in cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of Azure Cloud services and certified as an Azure Solutions Architect.
• Demonstrated ability to teach and mentor sysadmins and engineers, enabling them to adopt automation-first approaches.
• Success of identifying and eliminating toil at scale.
• Comprehensive knowledge of cloud security practices and ability to enforce zero-tolerance for vulnerabilities in infrastructure and pipelines.
• Experience in PowerShell scripting and automation.
• Familiarity of Site Reliability Engineering framework

Experience of Administering Microsoft Azure Public Cloud IaaS resources and have experience with some or all of the following:

• Virtual Machines
• Storage Accounts
• Key Vaults
• Load balancers
• VNET, subnets, NICs and route tables
• Public IP addressing
• Monitor
• Log Analytics
• BLOB Storage
• Entra ID

BENEFITS

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: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. 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.

NEXT STEP

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Paweł Andrzejewski, Talent Acquisition Partner, at pawel.andrzejewski@simcorp.com. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. 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.

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.

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into 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.

About Us

SimCorp is a provider of industry-leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. SimCorp is a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group. As of 2024, SimCorp includes Axioma, the leading provider of risk and management and portfolio optimization solutions for the global buy side.

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