Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Patching

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Incentive pay

Banking benefits

Vacation offering

Wellbeing support

MomentMakers recognition

Job summary

CIBC is seeking a Patch Automation Engineer to design, build, and secure enterprise patching workflows across Windows, Linux, middleware, and platform services. You will use Ansible Automation Platform, PowerShell, Bash, and APIs to create low-touch, auditable patching with robust rollback and validation.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, application, database, and security teams to ensure scalable and compliant patching; you will drive automation improvements and reduce manual effort

Qualifications

• Experience building patch automation workflows for servers and platforms.
• Understanding patch lifecycles, maintenance windows, dependencies, and recovery.
• Ability to translate requirements into resilient automated workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reusable automation patterns for OS, middleware, and patching.
• Translate vulnerability intelligence into actionable patching strategy and ensure auditability.
• Integrate patching with CMDB, ITSM, vulnerability management, and observability platforms.

Skills

Patch automation

Automation patterns

SRE mindset

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

PowerShell

Python

Bash

APIs

Git

Job description

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com

What You’ll Be Doing

As a member of the Patching Engineering team, you will design, build, secure, and continuously improve the enterprise patch automation ecosystem used to remediate vulnerabilities and maintain platform currency at scale. This role requires deep technical understanding across infrastructure, operating systems, middleware, databases, and security operations. You will engineer automated patching workflows for Windows, Linux, middleware, and platform services using orchestration and configuration management capabilities such as Ansible Automation Platform, PowerShell, Bash, and APIs. You will build integrations with vulnerability management, CMDB, change management, monitoring, and service management platforms so that patching is risk-informed, policy-driven, observable, and auditable. You will partner with infrastructure, application, database, middleware, and security teams to define maintenance patterns, dependency handling, pre-checks, snapshots, controlled reboots, service stop/start logic, rollback strategies, and post-patch validation to enable resilient, low-touch, end-to-end automation with minimal operational risk. On an ongoing basis, the team is also responsible for identifying manual patching steps and other repetitive operational activities, then designing and delivering automations that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and increase engineering efficiency across the supported environment.

How You’ll Succeed

• Patch Automation Engineering – Design and maintain reusable automation patterns for operating system, middleware, and platform patching across Windows, Linux, JBoss, Oracle Database, MQ, and related infrastructure. Build orchestration that performs discovery, eligibility checks, dependency validation, drain/stop actions, patch deployment, controlled reboot or restart sequences, health verification, and rollback decisioning.
• Security, Risk & Compliance – Translate vulnerability intelligence into actionable patching strategy by integrating scanner findings, severity, exploitability, asset criticality, and maintenance policy into execution decisions. Ensure automations support auditability, segregation of duties, change controls, exception handling, and evidence capture. Partner with security teams to reduce exposure windows, improve remediation SLAs, and align patching practices with enterprise security standards, hardening baselines, and regulatory requirements.
• Integrations & Reliability – Engineer integrations with CMDB, ITSM, vulnerability management, endpoint management, virtualization, cloud, and observability platforms to enable intelligent targeting, maintenance window control, automated approvals, exception routing, and post-patch reporting. Create telemetry, dashboards, and operational metrics for compliance, success rate, failure analysis, drift, and recovery. Lead continuous improvement through root-cause analysis, tuning of automation logic, and standardization of repeatable patching services across lines of business.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate hands‑on engineering experience. You’ve built and supported patch automation for servers and platforms, including Windows Server, Linux, middleware, databases, and supporting infrastructure. You understand patch lifecycles, maintenance windows, dependencies, and service recovery, and can translate requirements into resilient automated workflows.
• You have strong knowledge of automation tools and frameworks. You’re skilled with Ansible Automation Platform and its enterprise components. You build and integrate automations using reusable content, standards‑based design, source control, CI/CD, and secure integration patterns.
• You are proficient in scripting and platform management. You bring hands‑on expertise with PowerShell, Python, Bash, APIs, Git workflows, and tools such as Red Hat Satellite, Windows patching solutions, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and middleware administration. You’re comfortable with dynamic targeting, secrets handling, inventory design, environment promotion, guardrails, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• You engineer for scale and reliability. You design automation with idempotency, retry logic, concurrency controls, observability, and rollback considerations. You can troubleshoot failures across network, operating system, middleware, application, credential, and orchestration layers and drive permanent fixes rather than repeated manual intervention.
• You're digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
• You love to learn. You're passionate about growing your knowledge, and you know that there is no limit to what you can achieve.
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values – trust, teamwork and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.
• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
• Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What You Need To Know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [e-mail]
• CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise.
• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.
• We may ask you to complete an attribute‑based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency).
• We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 32nd Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Client Service, Infrastructure Management (IM), Mitigated Risks, Technical Leadership, Test Environments, Vendor Management