Site Reliability Engineer

finastra; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Hybrid work model

Paid time off for voting

Bereavement leave

Health & disability insurance

Retirement plans

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Finastra is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure availability, performance, and reliability of containerized business applications. You will bridge development and operations, troubleshooting complex issues, and automating support tasks while managing deployments.

Ideal candidates have experience in containerized environments, automation scripting in Bash/Python, and strong Linux skills. The role emphasizes CI/CD, monitoring, and disaster recovery across cloud platforms with a hybrid

Qualifications

• Experience in application support, production support, or systems engineering.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting containerized applications in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Bash and Python to automate troubleshooting and support workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot Java-based applications, including keystore and heap tuning.
• Strong log analysis with Grafana/Loki and related tools.
• Advanced Linux skills for system log analysis and network diagnostics.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, failover strategies, and DR environments.

Responsibilities

• DevOps Support: create, manage, and support pipelines for deployment by application teams.
• Application Troubleshooting: diagnose runtime errors, connectivity issues, and bottlenecks in containerized and non-containerized apps.
• Incident Management: respond to production alerts, lead root-cause analysis, implement fixes.
• Change Management: document change records and follow audit processes.
• Deployment Support: validate deployments across staging and production via automated pipelines.
• Automate Operations: write scripts for health checks, log rotation, and recovery procedures.
• Monitoring & Alerting: configure dashboards and alerts to detect anomalies early.

Skills

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Automation

Python scripting

Java troubleshooting

Linux systems

Tools

Grafana

Loki

Jenkins

GitHub CI

ArgoCD

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Who are we?

At Finastra, we're a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what's next for the industry. Our technology powers mission‑critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world's top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.

What will you contribute?

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of our containerized business applications. You will bridge the gap between development and operations by troubleshooting complex application issues, automating routine support tasks, and managing deployments. This position will require strong DevOps pipeline development to ensure seamless application deployment and management.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• DevOps Support: Create, manage, and support pipelines that the application support teams will be utilizing to deploy applications.
• Application Troubleshooting: Diagnose complex runtime errors, connectivity issues, and performance bottlenecks in containerized and non-containerized applications.
• Incident Management: Respond to production alerts, lead root-cause analysis (RCA), and implement permanent fixes.
• Change Management: Understand and create change records. Follow the change management process for auditing purposes.
• Deployment Support: Manage and validate application deployments across staging and production environments using automated pipelines that you support.
• Automate Operations: Write scripts to automate routine health checks, log rotation, and recovery procedures. Innovate solutions to help the customer support and engineering teams.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Configure application dashboards and alerts to catch anomalies before they impact users.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience: Proven experience in application support, production support, or systems engineering.
• Container Operations: Hands‑on experience troubleshooting applications running in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in Bash and Python to automate troubleshooting and support workflows.
• Java application Experience: Ability to troubleshoot java based applications, keystore, heap settings, and tuning.
• Log Analysis: Strong skills using log aggregation tools like Grafana/Loki.
• Advanced Linux Skills: Confident navigating Linux environments, checking system logs, and analyzing network traffic. Ability to understand, diagnose, and fix system level issues.
• Disaster Recovery Knowledge: Ability to understand, improve, and manage DR environments and failovers

Preferred Qualifications:

• CI/CD Familiarity: Experience using tools like Jenkins, GitHub CI, or ArgoCD to deploy applications.
• Database Basics: Oracle DB queries (updates, inserts, selects, deletes)
• Cloud Knowledge: Experience supporting applications hosted on Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Technical Experience with: YAML, XML, AKS, Flux, Ansible, Azure CI/CD, Github, Kafka, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, IBM MQ, DNS, Networking, Oracle DB, Redhat AMQ, Grafana and observability
• Bonus experience: Understanding of NACHA and different payment rails including real time payments

Compensation: 95 - 130k

Benefits

• Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.
• Well‑being: Access confidential one‑to‑one support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive-inside and outside of work.
• Health & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*
• Sustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donation‑matching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.
• Inclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra-open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.
• Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.
• Recognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.

*Specific benefits may vary by location.

At Finastra, each individual is unique-bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.

Be unique. Be exceptional