SimCorp - Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Microsoft Azure

Description :

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

- 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 SimCorps overall transformation into a SaaS-first, cloud-native company

- Bachelors or Masters 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