Consultant, Site Reliability Engineering

CIBC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Employee share purchase plan

Wellbeing support

Job summary

CIBC is seeking a Consultant, Site Reliability Engineering to support the Application Reliability Engineering Platform. You will manage automated deployments, monitor system health, and lead incident responses across multiple environments.

The role combines on-site work with a hybrid schedule, 1-3 days on-site and remaining days remote. Candidates should have 5–10 years in SRE/DevOps, strong automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript) and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines,

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of site reliability engineering, application support, or DevOps experience.
• Strong automation and lifecycle automation expertise.
• Familiar with CI/CD, observability, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage automated application deployments across environments and monitor health, performance, and alerts.
• Lead incident response and post-mortem analysis to prevent recurrence and reduce client impact.
• Define observability strategies and contribute to reliability and resilience standards.

Skills

5-10 years experience

Automation

SRE

Python

PowerShell

Bash

JavaScript

CI/CD

GitHub

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Technical discipline

Tools

GitHub

Job description

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com

What You'll Be Doing

As a member of CIBC’s Application Reliability Engineering Platform team, the Consultant, Site Reliability Engineering will play a key role in CIBC Digital and Client Experience Technology to support the Contact Centre Line of Business ensuring the seamless operation and ongoing improvement of application platforms across the organization. You will work closely with cross-functional teams providing technical expertise to resolve application and infrastructure technology issues on medium to highly complex projects in compliance with service standards, policies, and procedures.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. To successfully perform the work, you’ll be on-site full-time. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How You'll Succeed

• Technical Expertise- Manage and optimize automated application deployments across multiple environments, ensuring consistency and reliability. Monitor system health, performance metrics, and alerts to proactively identify and resolve issues before client impact. Participate in, and as required, lead incident response and post-mortem analysis to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Partnership- Continuously evaluate and improve systems, processes, and tools to enhance reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Define and maintain observability strategies to ensure visibility into application behaviour and performance. Participate in the on-call rotation for application support, responding to incidents and resolving technical issues. Balance feature development speed and system reliability by adhering to well-defined service level objectives (SLOs). Support AIOps initiatives to reduce manual intervention and improve operational intelligence through automation.
• Continuous Improvement- Contribute to the development and execution of observability and telemetry strategies. Provide input to best practices, standards, and documentation for site reliability engineering (SRE) methodologies and technologies. Participate in defining standard reliability and resilience requirements for infrastructure and application components. Act as a point of escalation for production application issues, providing advanced troubleshooting and resolution.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate 5-10 years of experience. In site reliability engineering, application support, or DevOps roles, with a strong focus on application lifecycle automation and operational excellence. Demonstrated expertise in automating application deployments, incident response workflows, and operational tasks using scripting and orchestration techniques. Solid understanding of AIOps principles and hands‑on experience applying automation and machine learning to improve observability, anomaly detection, and incident resolution. Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript) for building automation related to application monitoring, deployment, and recovery. Familiarity with application security best practices, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure coding principles. Experience working with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitHub), with a focus on application delivery and release automation. Working knowledge of observability strategies, including telemetry, logging, tracing, and alerting, to maintain application health and performance. Understanding of networking fundamentals as they relate to application performance and reliability. Experience with pipeline-integrated security scanning and compliance tools to support secure application delivery.
• You put our clients first. You engage with purpose to find the right solutions. You go the extra mile, because it's the right thing to do.
• You’re goal oriented. You’re motivated by accomplishing your goals and delivering your best to make a difference.
• You're passionate about people. You find meaning in relationships and surround yourself with a diverse network of partners. You connect with others through respect and authenticity.
• You love to learn. You're passionate about growing your knowledge. You have a strong sense of curiosity.
• You’re a certified professional. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Technical discipline.
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.
• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
• Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What You Need To Know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [e-mail]
• CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise.
• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.
• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency).
• We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 17th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Call Center Architecture, Decision Making, Help Desk Support, Service Standards, Technology Operations, Work Collaboratively