Lead SRE Engineer

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?
RBC is seeking 2 Lead SREs for our US Cash Management Technology. This is a brand-new system to serve our corporate clients. You will be heavily involved in shaping the future technology landscape of RBC, by delivering key business values for a transformational project in our Banking Technology while implementing strategic components servicing across all RBC functions defined in our roadmap. This role will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and support of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) solutions for applications supported by the Commercial, Core Banking and Payments Technology (CCBPT) within US Cash Management.

What will you do?

1. Provide SRE technical leadership on squad level
2. Lead code and non-functional (performance, security, maintainability, compliance, change management) reviews of all production bound SRE solutions
3. Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes
4. Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
5. Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
6. Support incident management and problem management for applications in scope and RCA Action items fulfillment/ownership
7. Focus on Continuous improvement and technical standards – Drive improvements in productivity, monitoring, tooling and best practices
8. Manage technology currency (server patching, certificate renewal, compliance, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities
9. Drive best-in-class technical solutions by tracking closely industry leading solutions and applying to RBC environment and needs
10. Leverage the value in unit, department, and enterprise wide teams to develop better solutions and achieve a cross enterprise mindset
11. Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives.
12. Implement monitoring and alerting, anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing for applications in scope

Production Support:

1. Be an escalation point in the on-call rotation, and support our maintenance, scheduled work, support, and release deployment requirements
2. Lead in incident management and problem management for applications in scope
3. Drive improvements in productivity, monitoring, tooling, and best practices
4. Manage technology currency (patching, certificate renewal, compliance, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities
5. Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives

What do you need to succeed?
Must have:

1. 5+ years of experience as Site Reliability Engineer
2. A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field (Example: Mathematics/Engineering/Physics), or equivalent practical experience.
3. Advanced knowledge of the following SRE practices and technologies
4. Python, YAML, Shell scripting
5. Azure, Linux
6. Dynatrace, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Moog, Splunk, Elastic, Azure monitor, Grafana
7. Chaos Engineering
8. MQ, Kafka
9. Perform production support role, including off-hours support
10. Effective negotiation skills, and stakeholder management
11. Excellent communication skills

Nice-to-have:

1. In-depth hands-on experience in a variety of SRE tools (Ansible, Azure Automation, Catchpoint)
2. Experience working as an SRE within the Financial Industry

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
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

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Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Group Problem Solving, IT Systems Integration, Organizational Leadership, Product Services, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), 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: 2024-11-08

Application Deadline: 2025-05-12

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At 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.

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