Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer)

Who we’re looking for?

We ‘re looking for a seasoned and technical cloud DevOps Engineer to be part of the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure SRE Team and be part of the multi-year cloud transformation program that we have embarked upon. Specifically, the Engineer will design and drive a multi-year Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platform within the Database team. We require someone who has in-depth experience of engineering and integrating platforms and services on public cloud and has worked with development and business agile teams on successful, medium-large scale, cloud database migrations. We are looking for a passionate infrastructure and cloud advocate who understands infrastructure, development and cloud best practices, industry trends, modern technologies and new ways of working.

About Schroders

We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base
This role will be based in Singapore from our central business district office in CapitaGreen.

The team
You will be part of the Global Database Team within the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure SRE Team, which is responsible for managing both on-premises and cloud database infrastructure. You will be a Cloud DevOps Engineer within the Database Team who are subject matter experts for database technologies. You will engineer, build and support a new best-in-class cloud database platform and service offering, and work with multiple development and business teams to onboard and migrate applications to Azure from inception to production go live. You will join a highly technical team who are mainly focused on cloud, who are integral to a successful cloud adoption and migration programme over the coming years.

What you’ll do

• Engineer a best-in-class cloud Internal Developer Platform for databases
• Engineer and integrate cloud database solutions & services to industry best practice with scalability, fault tolerance, highly resilient, highly secure, observability, and simplicity in mind
• Run proof of concepts for new cloud database services or cloud third party tooling
• Work with InfoSec colleagues to review and enhance the Azure security posture
• Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation
• Work with peers across the virtual cloud team to understand cloud service or enhancement priorities
• Work closely with development teams to help them through the cloud journey, evaluate and identify new cloud service requirements, and engineer and implement globally
• Identify, triage, and constantly automate and evolve the platform by pushing for change that improves reliability, operability and developer experience
• Every week solve exciting new challenges with an amazing team and technology stack
• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
• Engineer solutions that are fully automated using infrastructure-as-code and integrated in the CI/CD toolchain

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in infrastructure and cloud devops engineering
• Certified Microsoft Azure Administrator with minimum 2 years’ experience in Azure cloud database engineering
• Experience using PowerShell or Python for scripting and database technologies including MS SQL and T-SQL
• Knowledge of several of the following devops tools: Azure DevOps, GIT, Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Codestar, Puppet, Chef or Ansible
• Experience creating and using REST APIs
• Knowledge of system and platform security, and to taking a vulnerability-based approach to security hardening
• Experience working with development/delivery stakeholders on cloud application migrations or large scale/complex infrastructure initiatives
• Knowledge of Virtualisation, Networks, Windows, Linux, Storage
• Understanding of PaaS, Infra-As-Code, Compliance-as-Code, and when to use
• Experience with modern engineering and agile practices as well as shift left CI/CD
• Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, infrastructure engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts
• Understanding of broader cloud ecosystem including Cloud Computing Technologies, business drivers and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies and trends.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Working knowledge of any of the following database engine in Azure: SQL, Cosmos DB, MySQL Flexible, PostgreSQL Flexible
• Working knowledge of any of the following database engines: Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL
• Working knowledge of any of the following database engine in AWS: Aurora, DynamoDB
• Experienced in designing, engineering, and implementing cloud solutions on Azure or AWS
• Experienced with technologies such as .NET, Nodejs, Ruby, Java
• Experience working in regulated industries such as Financial Services, and those organisations with geographically disperse teams
• Hands on experience of designing, engineering and supporting Kubernetes
• Experience of cloud transformation and change programs across technology organizations
• Understanding of Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud
• Understanding Cloud Service capabilities and relative strengths (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCP, Ali)
• Experience in Power BI, Azure Power Platform

What you’ll be like

• A great communicator, comfortable mentoring other engineers and steering technical projects
• Hungry to learn new technologies and embraces collaboration
• Passionate about engineering and technology to solve business problems
• An advocate of cloud, cloud adoption, and cloud transformation

We recognise potential, whoever you are

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics

Salary expectations of candidates will be considered when assessing suitable candidates. Due to the high volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Job Reference SIN01980