Senior Platform Automation Engineer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC in Toronto is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design and implement observability-as-code across AWS, Azure, and OpenShift using Terraform. You will build CI/CD pipelines for Dynatrace configurations and automate provisioning across multi-cloud environments.

You will collaborate with DevOps, platform and security teams to translate business needs into scalable observability solutions, applying GitOps, IaC practices, and strong automation standards.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development and platform engineering in financial technology or financial services.
• Proven expertise in Python, DevOps, and multi-cloud automation.
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace configuration, APIs, and observability implementation.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Expertise across AWS, Azure, and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Understanding of observability principles, CI/CD automation, and GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement observability-as-code solutions across AWS, Azure, and OpenShift using Terraform and IaC practices.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Dynatrace configuration management and GitOps workflows.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and updates for Dynatrace across multi-cloud environments using Python and API integrations.
• Develop Python automation frameworks to streamline observability deployments, validation, and configuration management across environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps, platform, security, and application teams to translate business requirements into scalable observability solutions.

Skills

Python

DevOps

Multi-cloud automation

Dynatrace configuration

APIs

Terraform

AWS

Azure

OpenShift

CI/CD

GitOps

Security standards

Tools

Dynatrace

Terraform

OpenShift

Job description

Job Description

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Design and implement observability-as-code solutions across AWS, Azure, and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Dynatrace configuration management, enabling GitOps workflows for monitoring deployments.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and updates for Dynatrace across multi-cloud environments using Python and API integrations.
• Develop Python automation frameworks to streamline observability deployments, validation, and configuration management across environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps, platform, security, and application teams to translate business requirements into scalable observability solutions.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must have:

• 4+ years of professional software development and platform engineering in financial technology or financial services, with proven expertise in Python, DevOps, and multi-cloud automation.
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace configuration, APIs, and observability implementation.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Demonstrated expertise across AWS, Azure, and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), including hands-on experience with containerization and microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of observability principles, CI/CD pipeline automation, and GitOps workflows, plus familiarity with security standards and vulnerability remediation.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience implementing and optimizing the Grafana Stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir).
• Hands-on experience with Catchpoint for synthetic monitoring and real user experience tracking.
• OpenTelemetry standards and implementation expertise.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes).

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, and stock where applicable.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and mentoring opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact on enterprise operations and resilience.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• World-class training programs and continuous learning opportunities in cloud and observability technologies.
• Flexible work/life balance options.
• Opportunities to do challenging, meaningful work that scales across the organization.

Job Skills

Microservices Architecture, Python (Programming Language), Red Hat OpenShift, RESTful API Design, RESTful APIs, Software Development, Structured Query Language (SQL), Terraform (Software)

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: 2026-11-03

Application Deadline: 2026-11-27

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

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.

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