Azure SRE Lead — Cloud Reliability & Automation

SimCorp; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental care

Group RRSP/TFSA

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

SimCorp is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Toronto to own the reliability, scalability and performance of Azure-hosted environments for our SaaS offering. You will lead onboarding for new and existing client platforms and drive SRE practice across tooling, incident response, and automation.

You will guide automation adoption, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product owners and architects to shape future roadmaps, while participating in on-call weekend support per the needs of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5–8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure leadership roles.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, including production-grade design and operation.
• Proficiency with IaC tools like Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native monitoring and incident management frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience in monitoring and logging tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana).
• Familiarity with SimCorp Dimension is a strong plus.
• Experience managing both onboarding projects and live production operations.
• Broad knowledge of networking, virtualization, containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Broad knowledge with Linux and Windows systems, APIs, scripting (PowerShell, Bash), and SQL.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work in cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to mentor and lead engineers, influence architecture decisions, and manage complexity.
• Comfort balancing strategic priorities with hands‑on execution.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of Azure-hosted environments.
• Lead operational support and onboarding activities for new and running client platforms.
• Provide technical leadership in SRE practices, tooling, and incident response.
• Guide the transition of manual processes into automated, scalable solutions.
• Lead solutions workshops, engage with vendors, and manage senior stakeholders.
• Implement and evolve observability frameworks using SLOs, SLIs, and proactive alerting.
• Oversee disaster recovery planning, incident postmortems, and root cause analysis.
• Ensure high-quality onboarding delivery through reusable automation pipelines.
• Mentor and support the growth of junior and senior engineers in your Product Area.
• Keeping oversight and coordinating routine maintenance, deployments, refreshes, rollbacks, and release Application Upgrades.
• Execute disaster recovery, configuration management, and infrastructure readiness tasks.
• Collaborate with product owners and architects to influence platform design and future roadmaps.
• Provide weekend or on-call support as needed.
• Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes.

Skills

Azure expertise

SRE leadership

Terraform

Monitoring tools

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Bash

Linux/Windows

Education

CS degree (Bachelor's or Master's)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Job description

SimCorp is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Toronto to own the reliability, scalability and performance of Azure-hosted environments for our SaaS offering. You will lead onboarding for new and existing client platforms and drive SRE practice across tooling, incident response, and automation.

You will guide automation adoption, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product owners and architects to shape future roadmaps, while participating in on-call weekend support per the needs of