Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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
As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will take on strategic and technical ownership within a Product Area, providing leadership across cloud infrastructure, service reliability, and platform operations. This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer ready to guide others, shape our operational standards, and ensure SimCorp’s cloud platform delivers excellence to both newly onboarded and long-standing clients.
You’ll lead reliability-focused design sessions, drive the adoption of SRE principles, and champion automation and observability improvements. In addition, you will coach and mentor team members to grow technical capability across the Product Area while contributing to platform-wide initiatives.
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
- Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of Azure-hosted environments
- Lead operational support and onboarding activities for new and running client platforms
- Provide technical leadership in SRE practices, tooling, and incident response
- Guide the transition of manual processes into automated, scalable solutions
- Lead solutions workshops, engage with vendors, and manage senior stakeholders
- Implement and evolve observability frameworks using SLOs, SLIs, and proactive alerting
- Oversee disaster recovery planning, incident postmortems, and root cause analysis
- Ensure high-quality onboarding delivery through reusable automation pipelines
- Mentor and support the growth of junior and senior engineers in your Product Area
- Collaborate with product owners and architects to influence platform design and future roadmaps
- Provide weekend or on-call support as needed
WHAT WE VALUE
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5-8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure leadership roles
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, including production-grade design and operation
- Proficiency with IaC tools like Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible
- Deep understanding of cloud-native monitoring and incident management frameworks
- Experience in leading incident response and platform-wide reliability improvements
- Leverage a strong foundation in ITIL practices, including problem, change, and incident management
- Broad technical knowledge: Kubernetes, Docker, APIs, CI/CD, scripting, SQL
- Experience with SimCorp Dimension or financial services platforms is a plus
- Proven ability to mentor and lead engineers, influence architecture decisions, and manage complexity
- Comfort balancing strategic priorities with hands-on execution
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-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.
Simcorp does offer 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 STEPS
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 Swati Pal ([email protected]), Talent Acquisition Partner. 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.
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 and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. 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.