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Principal Observability Engineer (azure Devops)

Design and implement a scalable observability architecture for financial applications
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Senior
yesterday
SimCorp

SimCorp

A global provider of investment management solutions and services for the financial industry, including software and professional services.

Principal Observability Engineer

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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Why This Role Is Important To Us

Observability is at the heart of delivering robust, reliable, and innovative solutions to our global financial clients. This role puts you at the forefront of our strategic journey, building systems that proactively detect issues, provide clear insights, and drive continuous improvements. Your contribution ensures SimCorp can swiftly respond to challenges, keep systems performing optimally, and empower our teams with actionable insights. Success in this role means delivering exceptional reliability, transparency, and innovation, directly impacting client satisfaction and SimCorp's industry leadership.

What Will You Be Responsible For

  • Drive and execute technical observability strategy across the organization.
  • Lead design and implementation of advanced observability tooling (Elastic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
  • Ensure governance and standardization across observability platforms.
  • Develop and maintain clear, practical documentation (runbooks, onboarding guides, wikis).
  • Enable engineering teams via effective technical onboarding and knowledge-sharing.

What We Value

This strategic role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, architectural vision, and strong leadership to guide the organization's observability practices.

Professional & Technical Skills

  • Strategic & Architectural Planning: Ability to drive and execute a cohesive technical observability strategy across the entire organization.

  • Experience designing and implementing multi-tenant, scalable, and resilient observability architectures using tools like Elastic, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

  • Deep understanding of observability pillars: Logs, Metrics, and Traces, and how to integrate them effectively.

  • Software & Platform Expertise:

  • Elastic Stack: Advanced knowledge of Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats. This includes cluster administration, performance tuning, creating complex queries, and index lifecycle management (ILM).

  • Grafana: Advanced skills in creating sophisticated dashboards, using various data sources, and managing Grafana plugins and provisioning.

  • OpenTelemetry: Deep experience with the OpenTelemetry framework, including collector configuration, instrumentation of applications (auto & manual), and context propagation.

  • Azure Cloud: Senior-level experience with Azure services, particularly Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

  • Governance & Enablement:

  • Experience creating and enforcing governance models for observability platforms, including naming conventions, data retention policies, and access control (RBAC).

  • Proven ability to develop clear and practical documentation, such as runbooks, onboarding guides, and internal wikis.

  • Skilled in technical writing and creating enablement materials to train and support engineering teams.

Soft Skills & Capabilities

  • Leadership & Influence: Ability to manage stakeholders and communicate a clear technical vision to both engineering teams and senior leadership.

  • Strategic Thinking: A forward-thinking mindset to anticipate future needs, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure the observability platform meets long-term business goals.

  • Mentorship: A passion for enabling other engineers through knowledge-sharing, workshops, and effective onboarding.

  • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Benefits

Competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, at 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. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

On top of that, we have IP sprints; where you have 3 weeks per quarter to 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 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.

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.

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 and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. 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.

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Principal Observability Engineer (azure Devops)
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Engineering
About SimCorp
A global provider of investment management solutions and services for the financial industry, including software and professional services.