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
Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for leading the efforts to maintain and improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of various SimCorp products and services. This individual will work collaboratively with product development teams across several lines of business and other stakeholders as a requirement to fulfill their responsibilities effectively. The candidate will need in-depth expertise and experience in Azure Cloud and associated technologies to address infrastructure challenges, implement automation solutions, and boost overall operational effectiveness
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Lead the development of SRE solutions, including monitoring and alerting, machine learning-based anomaly detection, self-healing mechanisms, and reliability testing strategies.
Design and implement reliability, scalability, and performance strategies, while leading the development of initiatives for capacity planning, resource management, and automation opportunities across systems and onboarding pipelines.
Collaborate with product development teams to optimize application performance and infrastructure, applying design-thinking and agile methodologies in cross-functional environments.
Build tools and automation to eliminate manual TOIL, improve engineering velocity, developer experience, and improve system reliability.
Define and manage SLOs and error budgets in partnership with Engineering teams.
Contribute to incidents, problems, and change management processes.
Execute disaster recovery, configuration management, and platform readiness tasks.
Manage incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring timely resolution of outages and performance issues, and maintaining high-quality documentation for operational processes and system configurations.
Collaborate with Agile teams and take part in design discussions with clients, vendors, and stakeholders.
Drive continuous improvement and adoption of best practices, including change management, observability, and operational excellence, while staying current with technology trends through formal and self-directed learning.
Mentor and guide junior SREs, promoting a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing, and participate in on-call rotations (including weekends) as needed.
Flexible working in regular & evening shift on rotational basis and providing weekend or On-Call support as needed.
WHAT WE VALUE
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 5–8+ years in SRE or Cloud Infrastructure leadership.
Extensive expertise in Microsoft Azure, including production-grade design, operations, and cloud-native reliability practices.
Must have expertise with Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep, ARM and Terraform and comprehensive understanding of monitoring and incident frameworks.
Solid experience in monitoring and logging tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, DataDog, Log Analytics).
Direct experience leading incident response, platform-wide reliability improvements, and applying ITIL practices (problem, change, incident management).
Experience working with observability frameworks like Open Telemetry and distributed tracing systems
Experience in centralizing…