Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Principal 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 Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will act as a technical authority across one or more Product Areas, guiding the direction of our Azure-based SaaS platform and Site Reliability strategy. You will lead complex initiatives related to platform reliability, observability, onboarding automation, and incident response across product boundaries, while advancing our overall cloud capability.

This role goes beyond day-to-day engineering. You will play a key architectural and leadership role in designing scalable systems, mentoring senior engineers, and shaping our Azure governance models. With deep expertise in SRE and ITIL practices, you will elevate platform reliability and client experience across both onboarding and ongoing operations

Your impact will be felt across departments, helping SimCorp become a fully cloud-native SaaS provider with reliable, secure, and automated service delivery

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Act as the technical lead on SRE initiatives across multiple Product Areas
• Advance our strategic use of Microsoft Azure in onboarding and site reliability disciplines
• Architect scalable, secure, and automated solutions for client onboarding and live operations
• Lead the design and evolution of cross-cutting platform capabilities (e.g., observability, CI/CD pipelines, IaC standards, DR frameworks)
• Shape and govern Azure implementation patterns to ensure platform standardization, reliability, and cost-efficiency
• Solve the most complex and business-critical reliability challenges involving distributed cloud systems
• Advise engineering leads and product owners on cloud platform decisions, including trade-offs and risk mitigation
• Collaborate with Information Security, Platform Engineering, and Architecture teams on compliance and cloud controls
• Guide the definition of SLOs, SLIs, and other reliability metrics across departments
• Lead root cause analysis, major incident postmortems, and reliability retrospectives across teams
• Provide thought leadership, mentoring, and coaching to senior and lead engineers
• Build communities of practice to promote SRE principles and knowledge sharing within the organization
• Represent the SRE function in executive-level planning, roadmap definition, and technical due diligence
• Contribute to SimCorp's overall transformation into a SaaS-first, cloud-native company

WHAT WE VALUE

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Architecture roles
• Extensive expertise in Microsoft Azure, including architecture, deployment, automation, and cost optimization
• Own reliability, availability, and lifecycle management of the Citrix NetScaler ADC platform, ensuring stable traffic management, high availability, and rapid incident resolution across the production environment.
• Solid grasp of cloud-native and hybrid architectures, distributed systems, networking, and Windows Server Infra
• Mastery in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM, Bicep, and related tooling
• Deep knowledge of observability stacks (DataDog)
• Experience leading complex incident and problem management efforts at scale
• Developing advanced scripts with PowerShell
• Broad technical skillset including CI/CD pipelines, SQL, APIs
• Solid foundation in ITIL processes with a strategic mindset for operational excellence
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead through ambiguity, and align engineering with business needs
• Experience working in or guiding teams within regulated, security-conscious environments (e.g., financial services)
• Demonstrated commitment to mentorship, knowledge sharing, and building engineering culture
• Ability to think strategically while delivering pragmatic, practical solutions

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.

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