Observability Platform 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 in general. 

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 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 seeking 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 this is important to us:

SimCorp is a leading supplier of highly specialized software and expertise for financial institutions and corporations. The basis for our complex software is comprehensive financial services know-how and a very good understanding of the individual requirements of our customers. More than 200 financial institutions all over the world use our software. As a global partner we are continuously expanding our market-leading position.

SimCorp is experiencing a substantial increase in business globally and to support our growth we are looking for an Observability Platform Engineer. This is a global role, based in our London office. In this key role you will work with all our development and support teams across the world and provide. You will also prepare examples for our developers to work on in our internal systems in case of code defects and cooperate with them to resolve the issues.

This interesting job offers you a unique opportunity to increase your knowledge and get experience in a variety of disciplines. You will find yourself working in a diverse and fast-growing environment for an international company with significant growth potential and career opportunities. If you want to contribute to our growth and develop in a professional environment - grow with us!

What you will be responsible for:

The Observability Engineer role would be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of observability solutions that provide visibility into the performance and health of SimCorp applications, infrastructure, and services.

This role would be within a larger Cloud (Release) Quality team, responsible for ensuring that well tested and reliable applications can be frequently deployed for use by SimCorp clients. This role ensures that our systems are monitored effectively and efficiently, enabling proactive incident detection, troubleshooting, and resolution. They would collaborate with software developers, Operations, and IT teams to build and maintain a robust monitoring, logging, and tracing framework.

The following are examples of some of the key job responsibilities:  

• The Design and Implementation of Observability systems, covering monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities. Provide guidance to others in developing dashboards, alerts and reports to assist both Development and Operational teams be alerted to unexpected system performance and outages 

• Be an Observability evangelist by collaborating with Development, Client services and Operations teams to build observability requirements into software development lifecycle, to allow teams to self-sufficiently monitor the performance of services and applications that they work with. Provide guidance and training on best practices

• Support incident response procedures using insights and data from observability tools to proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve application issues 

• Maintain, enhance and monitor observability tooling, looking for opportunities to enhance processes and products used. Research new technologies and practices used more widely in the software development industry

What we value:

• A degree in computer science/engineering discipline.

• 3+ years of experience with observability and monitoring

• Hands-on experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, DataDog, New Relic etc.

• Experience with Cloud Platforms and cloud native applications, particularly hosted on Microsoft Azure 

• Scripting skills with Python and Bash. Configuration-as-Code experience such as Terraform or Ansible

• Good communication, teamworking & organization skills 

• You have excellent analytical skills and are used to working in a structured way.

Interested? 

Please click on the link below to apply. 

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