Senior Automation Engineer

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity and inclusion program

Accessibility and workplace accomod. (

Upskilling through online courses

Competitive rewards and bonus

Community engagement programs

Job summary

Scotiabank's Global Technology Services in Canada seeks a senior automation engineer to design, build and continuously improve secure automation across hybrid environments. You will lead hands-on engineering, mentor peers, and ensure compliant, scalable solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in automation, strong Ansible, Python, CI/CD with Git, and experience across on‑prem and cloud. You will drive adoption, provide runbooks, and partner across teams, contributing to a high-performance,

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on automation and software engineering in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong Ansible configuration management and orchestration experience.
• Python programming with API integration and automation tooling development.
• Experience applying CI/CD using Git-based workflows.
• Designing automation across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments.
• Understanding enterprise security, risk, and compliance in automation.
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows infrastructures and basic networking.
• Experience leading small deliveries and mentoring peers.
• Post-secondary education in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships.
• Acts as senior engineer and technical lead for automation across on-prem and cloud.
• Develops standards, reusable components, and scalable automation solutions.
• Applies software engineering practices: version control, testing, and CI/CD.
• Supports enterprise integrations with stable interfaces and runbooks.
• Ensures security, risk, and compliance in automation.
• Mentors peers and guides small squads; leads end-to-end workstreams.
• Drives adoption through documentation and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Ansible

Python

CI/CD

Hybrid environments

Linux/Windows

Mentoring

Security/compliance

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Git

Job description

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high‑performing culture.

Contributes to the overall success of Global Technology Services in Canada by providing senior level, hands‑on technical leadership in enterprise automation engineering. Responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving secure, scalable automation capabilities across hybrid environments, applying strong software engineering discipline and a platform engineering mindset to enable consistent, reliable outcomes across the organization. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Acts as a senior engineer and technical lead for enterprise automation engineering, with strong expertise in Ansible‑based configuration management and orchestration across on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Implements and contributes to automation standards, patterns, and reusable components; proposes improvements to increase safety, consistency, and scale.
• Applies software engineering practices to automation development, including source control, code review, testing strategies, versioning, and CI/CD integration.
• Builds automation solutions and supports enterprise integrations using stable, supportable interfaces (e.g., identity, secrets, ITSM/change, inventory/CMDB, pipelines, logging/monitoring).
• Implements required security, risk, and compliance controls in automation solutions, including least‑privilege access, secrets handling, auditability, approvals, and segregation of duties.
• Operates with a platform engineering mindset, ensuring automation solutions are reliable, observable, maintainable, and supported through runbooks and lifecycle management practices.
• Leads complex implementations and workstreams end‑to‑end; mentors peers; may guide a small squad and/or partner resources, escalating design decisions as appropriate.
• Enables adoption across teams through documentation, reference implementations, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day‑to‑day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day‑to‑day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in automation and software engineering roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with configuration management and orchestration tools, with emphasis on Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventory patterns, reusable content, and execution strategies).
• Strong programming background in Python, including API integration and development of automation tooling/services.
• Experience applying CI/CD practices to automation code using Git‑based workflows and pipeline tooling (e.g., build, test, promote, release).
• Demonstrated experience designing automation solutions that operate across hybrid environments (on‑premises and public cloud).
• Strong understanding of enterprise security, risk, and compliance requirements as they relate to automation (least privilege, secrets handling, approvals/segregation of duties, and auditability).
• Broad infrastructure knowledge including Linux and Windows and sufficient networking, storage, and security fundamentals to automate safely at scale.
• Experience leading small deliveries/workstreams and mentoring peers; ability to guide a small squad and/or partner resources is an asset.
• Completion of a post‑secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technology discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias‑free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross‑functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.

If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.