Senior Engineer, Application Maintenance & Transformation

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps professional to drive automation, deploy critical financial software, and manage CI/CD pipelines within a large technology organization in Toronto.

The role emphasizes reliability, incident management, and capacity planning, with collaboration across infrastructure and product teams. Strong Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud experience are required, along with solid coding and monitoring skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop SRE automation and operational improvements/solutions.
• Actively participate in deploying operationally critical financial software applications and automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
• Review, verify, and validate software code for quality and performance.
• Participate in change management, incident and problem management for the platform and dependent components.
• Perform scrum master or Kanban duties to drive team tasks.
• Attend technical meetings and trainings with cross functional teams; perform POCs for roadmap items.
• Maintain and improve DevOps pipelines and frameworks; perform chaos engineering.
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures via vulnerability assessment and risk management.
• Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance.
• Build/testing frameworks for platform services, tests for performance and resiliency.
• Develop systems/tools dashboards for production observability.
• Improve processes/runbooks; automate manual support tasks.
• Understand SLAs and drive reliability culture.

Skills

Java Spring

Relational DBs

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Git

CI Tools

Logging/Monitoring

Cloud: Azure

Cloud: AWS

PagerDuty

ServiceNow

SonarQube

NexusIQ

Vault

UCD

Catchpoint/Dynatrace

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Azure

AWS

Splunk

ELK

Grafana

Snowflake

IBM Mainframe

Postman

Job description

Job Description

Developing SRE automation and operational improvements/solutions, actively participate in deploying software applications and automation tools, and IT infrastructure. Review, verify, and validate the software code developed for quality and performance. Participate in change Management, Incident and problem Management for the platform and/or any dependent components which the product engineering teams rely on for their work. Provides information on the detailed technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Applies experience, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments.

What will you do?

• 40% of time will be developing SRE automation and operational improvements/solutions.

• 40% of time actively participate in deploying various operationally critical financial software applications and automation tools, and IT infrastructure. Review, verify, and validate the software code developed for quality and performance.

• Participate in change Management, Incident and problem Management for the platform and/or any dependent components which the product engineering teams rely on for their work.

• 10% of time playing the role of scrum master or Kanban driving the team tasks.

• 10% attending technical meetings, trainings with cross functional teams, Infrastructure and platform teams, performing POC’s for roadmap items.

• Maintain and improve DevOPS pipelines, frameworks, perform chaos engineering activities

• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.

• Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations.

• Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools

• Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs).

• Improve processes/runbooks and champion automation of any manual items around support.

• Service level metric understanding and responsible for consistently meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) for services owned by group.

• Drive a culture of reliability, and ensuring teams are aligned around common priorities and approaches defined by Senior leadership.

• Assist Sr. Manager in capacity planning and cost optimization.

• Drive resolution and stakeholder communication during incidents. The candidate should adapt at prioritizing multiple issues in a high stress environment.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.

• 6+ years’ IT experience in software development and/or maintenance or SRE experience.

• 3+ years’ experience working on JavaSpring bootapplications and rest API development.

• 2+ years’ experience working on relational databases – MS-SQL Server or MySQL, MariaDB and SingleStore or any in-memory distributed databases.

• Experience working on Containerization platforms such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes (OpenShift Kubernetes Service preferred).

• Must have Experience using centralized logging solutions (Splunk, Elk (preferred), etc.) and active monitoring systems (Catchpoint or Dynatrace etc.)

• Must have Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications in a Private cloud (OpenShift) or public cloud (Azure and/or AWS preferred)

• Experience working on SAP Business Objects Business intelligence applications.

• Must be Self-starter, self-motivated, resourceful, and driven to work with cross functional teams in large enterprises with complex org structures to meet business timelines on delivery.

• Solid Git skills with experience working on popular CI tools - Jenkins or UCD

• Experience working on PagerDuty, Postman, ServiceNow, SonarQube, NexusIQ and vault tools.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to Snowflake environment and experience setting up data pipelines and ETL processes integrating data from various sources into the Enterprise Datawarehouse’s or Snowflake.

• SnowPro Core Certification and/or Exposure to Datawarehouse’s like Informatica.

• Experience implementing dashboards to help teams visualize logs, instrumentation to ensure optimal performance of the platform services, infrastructure, and deployed applications (preferably Grafana).

• Experience creating runbooks, processes, and test plans around reliability, performance, etc. of infra/applications

• Exposure to IBM Mainframe tools and environment.

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

Job Skills

Agile Methodology, API Documentation, Apigee API, DevOps, Elk Stack, Grafana, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Communication, IT Automation, IT Monitoring, Java APIs, MemSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Snowflake Data Warehouse, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Product Technical Knowledge, Splunk, Structured Query Language (SQL), System Applications

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST 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:

2026-05-07

Application Deadline:

2026-08-14

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.