Lead Site Reliability Engineer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in Toronto seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to support cloud and distributed environments, manage a team of SREs, and implement automation strategies. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience and strong knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud technologies, and SRE practices. This full-time position offers competitive compensation and a chance to work with innovative technologies within a collaborative team.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Opportunities for development and coaching

Dynamic and collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as Site Reliability Engineer.
• Perform production support role, including off-hours support.
• Effective negotiation skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of SREs.
• Automate procedures using AI, Ansible, and other relevant technologies.
• Design and implement Chaos Engineering experiments.
• Support incident management and problem management for applications.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud Management

DevOps

Shell scripting

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Ansible

Dynatrace

OpenShift

Linux

Windows Servers

MS SQL Server

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Join our Commercial, Core Banking and Payments Technology (CCBPT) team as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll play a key role in supporting our cloud and distributed environments for the SRE & Production Operations team. This exciting opportunity will challenge you to work with cutting‑edge technologies, including AI and emerging innovations, and collaborate closely with development teams to deliver embedded SRE solutions. As a vital link between QE, DevOps, Development, Infrastructure, and Support teams, you'll leverage your strong technical skills to solve complex problems and drive success across multiple components and technologies. If you're passionate about tackling new challenges and developing innovative solutions, we invite you to join our team and take your career to the next level.

What will you do?

• Manage a team of SREs
• Automate, automate and automate – Identify, design, write and automation procedures using AI, Ansible and other relevant technologies
• Support applications running on multiple platforms including OpenShift and distributed systems
• Design and implement Chaos Engineering experiments and Disaster Recovery procedures to test and validate system resilience and reliability
• Establishing and monitoring SLO and supporting SLIs for various applications
• Responsible for developing and establishing observability strategies for applications
• Build and implement monitoring and alerting, anomaly detection, self‑healing and reliability testing for applications in scope
• Provide leadership and technical support for developers and DevOps engineers
• Support incident management and problem management for applications in scope and RCA Action items fulfillment/ownership
• Be an escalation point in the on‑call rotation, and support our maintenance, scheduled work, support, and release deployment requirements

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 7+ years of experience as Site Reliability Engineer
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Strong Kubernetes and Cloud working knowledge with experience and understanding of CICD pipeline and DevOps / Agile Methodology
• Advanced knowledge of the following SRE practices and technologies: Shell scripting, OpenShift, Linux, Dynatrace, PagerDuty, Moog, Splunk, Elastic, Ansible, Grafana, Chaos Engineering, MQ, Kafka, Windows Servers, MS SQL Server, Mainframe technologies.
• Perform production support role, including off‑hours support
• Effective negotiation skills, and stakeholder management
• Excellent communication skills

Nice-to-have

• Strong knowledge in AI and building AI‑based solutions
• Knowledge of deploying and supporting distributed applications
• In‑depth hands‑on experience in a variety of SRE tools (Ansible, Catchpoint)
• Experience working as an SRE within the Financial Industry

What’s in it for you?

• 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
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work in AI and emerging technologies
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Automation, Cloud Management, Cloud Software, Dynatrace Administration, Dynatrace APM, Group Problem Solving, IT Automation, IT Systems Integration, Mainframe Technologies, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Windows, Organizational Leadership, Product Services, Red Hat OpenShift, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), SRE Observability, System Applications, System Integration Testing (SIT), Systems Software

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:

2026-01-09

Application Deadline:

2026-01-30

Note

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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