Lead DevOps Engineer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer in Toronto to bridge development and operations, drive CI/CD excellence, and maintain secure, scalable pipelines. You will enable AI-enhanced productivity, collaborate with enterprise partners, and guide the DevOps culture toward best practices across the application lifecycle.

You will own design and implementation of enterprise-grade CI/CD features, mentor teams, and contribute to roadmap planning while ensuring compliance with security standards and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years developer experience.
• Deep understanding of DevOps Principles and best practices for CI/CD, including designing at an Enterprise scale.
• Experience with DevOps tools, platforms, and interfaces: Github, Github Actions, JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, Ansible.
• Proficient with Typescript, Java, Python, YAML, NPM, Maven, Gradle, Docker.
• Experience with deploying to cloud platforms: OCP, Azure, AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of key features for the enterprise DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline
• Consult with partner systems to develop integration strategies revolving around DevOps best practices
• Consult with Enterprise Architecture and Governance teams to review solution designs to ensure best practices are adhered to
• Enable AI Capabilities to increase Developer Productivity
• Work with product owners and key stakeholders to develop high value features that benefit the RBC Developer community
• Maintain the CI/CD pipeline: security and vulnerability management, capacity management, deployment and scaling strategies, performance and uptime, infrastructure hygiene
• Provide estimates on feature delivery, identify and determine delivery risks on key identify, and contribute to quarterly product road map planning
• Lead the developer community SIG discussions and bring in key features to the backlog
• Provide L3 Support on a rotational basis both on and off hours as on-call escalation contact
• Review contributions from the Developer community and approve PRs

Skills

DevOps principles

CI/CD pipelines

Github Actions

JFrog Artifactory

HashiCorp Vault

Ansible

Typescript

Java

Python

YAML

NPM

Maven

Gradle

Docker

OpenShift (OCP)

Azure

AWS

Tools

Github

JFrog Artifactory

HashiCorp Vault

Ansible

Job description

What is the Opportunity?

Are you passionate about driving innovation in application development and streamlining the software delivery lifecycle? As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring that our applications are built, tested, and deployed with speed, reliability, and compliance to the Enterprise security standards. You will lead efforts to enhance developer productivity, optimize build pipelines, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across the application development lifecycle.

What will you do?

• Lead the design and development of key features for the enterprise DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline
• Consult with partner systems to develop integration strategies revolving around DevOps best practices
• Consult with Enterprise Architecture and Governance teams to review solution designs to ensure best practices are adhered to
• Enable AI Capabilities to increase Developer Productivity
• Work with product owners and key stakeholders to develop high value features that benefit the RBC Developer community
• Maintain the CI/CD pipeline: security and vulnerability management, capacity management, deployment and scaling strategies, performance and uptime, infrastructure hygiene
• Provide estimates on feature delivery, identify and determine delivery risks on key identify, and contribute to quarterly product road map planning
• Lead the developer community SIG discussions and bring in key features to the backlog
• Provide L3 Support on a rotational basis both on and off hours as on-call escalation contact
• Review contributions from the Developer community and approve PRs

What do you need to Succeed?

Must-Have

• Minimum 5 years developer experience
• Deep understanding of DevOps Principles and best practices for CI/CD, including designing at an Enterprise scale
• Experience with DevOps tools, platforms, and interfaces: Github, Github Actions, JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, Ansible
• Proficient with Typescript, Java, Python, YAML, NPM, Maven, Gradle, Docker
• Experience with deploying to cloud platforms: OCP, Azure, AWS

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Quality Engineering Automation Tools
• Experience with Application Security Tools for SAST, SCA, Container Image Scanning Tools
• Development and support of applications hosted on Cloud platforms
• Experience with Networking concepts
• Experience with SecOps

What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities for overtime
• Opportunities for on-call support rotation

Job Skills

Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Programming Languages, Software Change Request Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Integration Engineering, Software Product Design, Software Product Technical Knowledge, Software Release Management, System Testing Tools

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-08-27

Application Deadline:

2026-09-17

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.