Senior DevOps Engineer

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity and Inclusion programs

Tuition assistance

Competitive rewards program including bonus

Flexible vacation policy

Community engagement opportunities

Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their GBM Data Platform team in Toronto, Ontario. This role involves designing and improving the bank’s data platform infrastructure, ensuring reliability and operational support for critical production systems. With a focus on cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and DevOps best practices, the ideal candidate should have extensive experience supporting data workloads. The bank offers competitive rewards and values diversity in its workforce.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles with production responsibility.
• Strong experience administering and supporting Kafka and/or Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and Docker in enterprise-scale deployments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Provide senior-level DevOps guidance for onboarding regulatory data workloads.
• Define and promote CI/CD best practices and infrastructure automation.
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• Participate in on-call rotations for production support.

Skills

Hands-on experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering

Experience with Kafka and Elasticsearch

Expertise with Kubernetes and Docker

Strong Linux system administration

Experience with CI/CD and automation tools

Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash/Shell, or Groovy

Experience monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Requisition ID: 256111

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

The Team

The GBME Data Platform team delivers critical data capabilities across the bank, supporting both regulatory and non-regulatory systems. The platform currently supports 100+ source systems, enabling enterprise-scale development and solutioning using modern cloud and data technologies such as GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Apache NiFi, Elasticsearch, and Dremio. The team plays a key role in ensuring platform stability, security, compliance, and operational excellence, while enabling rapid onboarding and modernization of data workloads.

The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the GBM Data Platform, you will provide technical leadership and hands‑on expertise to design, operate, and continuously improve the bank’s data platform infrastructure. This role is a senior, production‑facing position with responsibility for platform onboarding, reliability, and operational support for regulatory and compliance‑driven workloads.

This role includes participation in an on‑call rotation supporting critical production systems outside standard business hours.

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

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault‑tolerant cloud and on‑prem infrastructure.
• Provide senior‑level DevOps guidance for onboarding regulatory and compliance data workloads.
• Define and promote CI/CD best practices and infrastructure automation across environments.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Deploy and manage containerised workloads using Kubernetes and Helm charts.
• Maintain development, staging, and production environments (e.g., GKE clusters).
• Participate in on‑call rotations to provide production support, incident response, and root‑cause analysis.
• Monitor platform health using SLIs, SLOs, and proactive alerting.
• Automate provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool.
• Configure and maintain backup, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.

Skills

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 DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles with production responsibility.
• Strong experience administering and supporting Kafka and/or Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
• Hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes and Docker in enterprise‑scale deployments.
• Strong Linux system administration experience (RHEL preferred).
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD and automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash/Shell, and/or Groovy.
• Experience monitoring and managing system performance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Dynatrace.
• Working knowledge of streaming platforms, SQL/NoSQL databases, and ETL solutions, preferably Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Apache NiFi.
• Strong troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and problem‑solving skills for complex production issues.
• Experience participating in on‑call rotations supporting mission‑critical production systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred/Nice To Have Skills

• Experience working with GCP or other public cloud platforms.
• Experience supporting regulatory, compliance, or audit‑driven enterprise platforms.
• Capital Markets or Banking industry experience.
• Experience contributing to enterprise DevOps standards, patterns, or cloud adoption strategies.
• Prior experience acting as a technical lead or mentor within a DevOps or platform team.

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.

Location: 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. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.