Senior Resilience & Availability Architect

TD Bank, N.A.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 97,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank, N.A. is seeking a senior resilience engineer in Toronto to lead assessments across applications, infrastructure, and cloud, driving high-availability designs and recovery strategies.

You will define and monitor recovery objectives and coordinate tests to ensure robust operating resilience. The role requires extensive experience in DR planning, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, risk, and IT operations.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of relevant experience in technology operations, site reliability engineering, infrastructure or risk management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with cloud resilience in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and multi-region architectures.
• Strong written and verbal communication for executive-level reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead resilience assessments across applications, infrastructure, data, and cloud to identify vulnerabilities and recovery gaps.
• Design high-availability patterns, automated failover, clustering, and multi-region deployment strategies.
• Define, monitor, and report RTO, RPO, MTD, and availability objectives with KPIs.
• Coordinate recovery exercises, DR runbooks, and chaos testing to validate readiness.
• Embed resilience requirements into architecture, change management, and incident response processes.
• Produce evidence for audits and regulatory examinations and report progress to leadership.

Skills

High-availability design

RTO/RPO/MTD definitions

Recovery testing & drills

Dependency mapping

Cloud multi-region recovery

Incident & problem management

Observability & metrics

Automation (Python/PowerShell)

SRE/BCP practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

PowerShell

Python

Job description

TD Bank, N.A. is seeking a senior resilience engineer in Toronto to lead assessments across applications, infrastructure, and cloud, driving high-availability designs and recovery strategies.

You will define and monitor recovery objectives and coordinate tests to ensure robust operating resilience. The role requires extensive experience in DR planning, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, risk, and IT operations.