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.