Cloud Services DevOps Engineer

Location: Manila, PH

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 2,300+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated in 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. While striving to deliver client value, we believe it is vital to consider our people and our planet in every business decision we make. Acting responsibly is not optional. It is essential.

Why is this important to us:

SimCorp is  highly invested in our people. We are on a very exciting journey and are inviting you to take part in forming the future for SimCorp as a SaaS-based services company. We firmly believe that if you grow, we grow. We are working on leading edge solutioning with dynamic and innovative thinkers. It is a thrilling opportunity to both contribute to world leading solutions, and to continue to develop technical skills. That is also why we offer a generous and exciting certification and career path for our SRE engineers in our global company. We hope to be the place where you choose to kickstart or continue your SRE/DevOps career.

In SaaS Operations - your future department - our strategic roadmap is summed up in the phrase ‘modern engineering innovative automation driving scalable customer success’. We need to deliver a reliable and ever-evolving platform for our clients to run their business critical processes on using SimCorp’s products. To ensure the best possible position, we’re building our cloud platform operations department around the SRE principles, and you’re invited to help us build this from the ground up.

In your daily work you will be collaborating with experienced operations engineers and all of our agile DevOps teams in our sister department SaaS Innovation. Your focus will be on technical deliveries, troubleshooting and continuous improvements to our platform, while also acting as an integral part of our feedback loop to developers both of platform and software features of SimCorp’s products. You will be part of a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive and iterative delivery environment, with colleagues that are motivated by doing things that are equally important and impressive.

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for Cloud Systems administration, providing technical operational services to SimCorp Data Management and Cloud SaaS (Software as Services),  internal and external customers

  • Utilize DevOps & Site Reliabilitiy Engineering (SRE) methods, to develop and ensure Cloud Quality of Service

  • Development and installation of automation Scripts and Batch Job Schedules

  • Cloud Service Orchestration using IaaC (infrastructure as code) for environment creation, Release and Deployment of executables 

  • Setup Monitoring and responsible for Maintenance of Cloud Environments and System Components

  • Ensure current infrastructure standards, apply OS, Database, Security and infrastructure patches

  • Provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Annual metrics within SOC2 compliance needs

  • Conduct Proof of Concepts to engineer innovative approaches working with Cloud Services Architect

  • Incident & Problem Management, Change Management Process. Implement Cloud Service policies – focus on SimCorp Data Management Services

  • Participate in operational meetings with clients for technical issues and escalate critical information/issues to management

  • Maintain continuous state of security and availability.  Participate in Annual VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing)  and Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery exercise

  • Engage directly with Clients

Candidate profile:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or Engineering

  • 4+ years of Experience with operating cloud applications, preferable in the financial sector

  • Comfortable in setting up and maintaining Cloud Services and Systems operations (Azure, AWS preferably both)  

  • Azure: Azure DevOps, Active Directory, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Key Vault, Citrix, Oracle Container & PDB, Functions, Monitoring and Security , Insights , Billing

  • AWS: EC2/S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Network, VPC, Active Directory, Load Balancing, Multi AZ & Region , Lambda, Guard Duty

  • Technical skills of Windows and Linux Server Administration, Oracle Administration, PL/SQL, XML, Virtualization (VMWare, Citrix). Security Center, Backup

  • Scripting : Powershell, Python, AWS Lambda, Azure

  • Infrastructure creation and application deployment : Ansible/Terraform

  • Proficient in developing CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling

  • Knowledge of cloud IT Systems Administration and IT Security Operations

  • Basic business understanding of Financial Data Management (reference data, portfolio pricing, corporate actions)

  • ITIL,  ITOps working in Agile methodology preferred

  • Fluency in English

  • Strong analytical skills

  • Strong interpersonal skills and a self-assured approach

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills including listening skills

  • Proactive nature and a natural drive for problem solving

  • Enthusiastic, committed and result-oriented

Stretch Skills that are nice to demonstrate:

  • Desire to develop as Architect

  • Financial Services Business Knowledge and Analysis

  • Information Security

  • Leadership development 

Benefits

  • Competitive 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 an excellent work & life balance: flexible work hours, a hybrid workplace model. On top of that, we have IP sprints where you have 3 weeks per quarter you can spend on mastering your skills as well as contributing to the company development. There is never just only one route - we practice an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

Next Steps

Please click the “Apply” button or get in touch with us to learn more about the vacancy and what SimCorp has to offer regarding salary, benefits, and perks. Please note only applications sent through our system will be processed. Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your CV in English as soon as possible.

If you are interested in being part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is for you, 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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