Principal DevOps Engineer

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. 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.

Why this is important to us: 

We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our team within within Client Services, reporting to the Client Reporting Service Delivery Manager. As part of the company, you will have a chance to provision, configure and manage Azure Cloud IaaS and PaaS resources via development source code as opposed to manual or UI-driven configuration management. i.e. Everything-as-Code.

What you will be responsible for: 

• Manage configuration files in a code repository to establish parameters and settings for Client Reporting applications and system environments. I.e. Configuration-as-Code. 

• Provide incident handling to investigate and diagnose issues impacting the code pipeline. Implement and deploy code changes to resolve issues and recover from service outages. 

• Collaborate closely with various stakeholders to develop, test and release code to;   

• Fix issues found in the operation of our solutions  

• Support our application upgrade and deployment automation   

• Deliver new features and functionality for our services 

• Collaborate closely with Site Reliability Engineers to build trust, rapport and an understanding of operational issues faced day-to-day.  
• Mentor and guide senior DevOps engineers, sharing best practices, reviewing designs, and enhancing technical growth.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and infrastructure deployments.  

• Seeking out opportunities to increase and improve the level of automation in our service. 
• Promote automation and operational excellence, eliminating toil and improving system reliability, scalability, and security. 

• Assist with project planning and provide input to project management decisions.  

• Provide on-call support outside of regular working hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays. 

What we value:

• Experience in Infrastructure, Azure Service Development and Operations and able to write everything-as-Code in Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates.
• Advanced PowerShell skills are essential. Able to work with Azure PowerShell cmdlets to manage Azure resources and also with custom modules and functions used in a continuous delivery pipeline that deploys and maintains Client Reporting applications. Including PowerShell DSC.    

• Familiarity with code hosting, collaboration and experience of services such as GIT, Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevOps or other source control management systems.  

• Skilled working with DevOps best practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code to manage different aspects of operating environments.  

• Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible or Terraform. 

• Experience working with Microsoft Azure Public Cloud and related services  

• Experience in configuring, troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Citrix SSO components, such as VDAs, Delivery Controllers, StoreFronts, Citrix Receiver, and Citrix Cloud infrastructure. 

• Experience with implementing and maintaining secret management solutions, including key management, secret rotation, and secure storage of credentials. 

• Experience setting up comprehensive monitoring solutions for Azure hosted application, including configuring and managing monitoring tools, developing monitoring dashboards and alerts and integrating with ITSM system. 

Client Reporting Reporting Tech Stack / Environment: Microsoft Windows Server, .NET, IIS, SQL Server, PowerShell. Microsoft Azure IaaS. 

Benefits 

• Flexible working hours  
• Sharing the costs of private medical care  
• Sharing the costs of sports activities (Multisport Card)  
• Possibility to develop your career in an international environment  
• Professional training and courses
• German and English language classes  
• Integration events and charity projects

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 Paweł Andrzejewski, Talent Acquisition Partner, at email address: [email protected]. 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.

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