System Reliability Engineer

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the Americas is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Toronto. This role combines DevOps, SysAdmin, and software engineering skills to ensure system reliability, improve performance, and train team members. If you're passionate about maintaining application availability and enjoy a dynamic work environment, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Competitive Rewards program including bonuses

Flexible vacation and personal days

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship initiatives

Upskilling through online courses

Community engagement opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer role.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor critical platforms running hundreds of applications.
• Improve site availability, service, and system performance.
• Investigate system errors and perform bottleneck analysis.

Skills

Software Engineering

System Administration

Unix/Linux Systems

Continuous Integration

Security and Privacy

Project Management

Cloud Services

Network Engineering

Job description

Requisition ID: 228118

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Are you passionate about reliability engineering and employ best practices to ensure the availabilityof applications in production?

Combining aspects from DevOps, SysAdmin, and Test Engineer, the role of Site Reliability Engineerwill allow you to have the opportunity to combine your technical ability, strategic thinking andprovide detail-oriented execution in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You will join a team with thepurpose of fostering reliability with both development and operations , and designing tools thatmonitor the state of our systems. You will assist in initiatives to continuously refine, build, plan anddeploy practices for improved stability, reliability, efficiency, repeatability and security. The team hasa strong focus on being people first and promotes support and training on both an individual and ateam level.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Monitor critical platforms in the bank that are expected to run hundreds of applications
• Improve and maintain site availability, scalability, service and system performance
• Investigate system errors and problems, bottleneck analysis of the system at scale, etc.
• Setup monitoring systems and application metrics as well as supervise them forprediction/detection of failures
• Participate in Architectural Review Boards and recommending / reviewing system reliabilityrequirements
• Provide solutions for performance management, disaster recovery, monitoring and accessmanagement
• Provide training programs for both internal and external team members
• Create and manage stability dashboards, utilized by technology and business leadership
• Automate/modernize repeated tasks/reporting
• Review and vet major projects/changes before production deployment to ensure adequatemonitoring, support and deployment plans are in place
• Be part of on call rotation

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in Software Engineering, System Administration, andOperations
• Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, including internal Unixsystems and networking (DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, etc)
• Experience designing and implementing tasks in Continuous Integration systems (Jenkins, Travis,CircleCI, etc.)
• Expert knowledge or experience with Dynatrace and Splunk
• Strong grasp of security, privacy and monitoring concepts
• Strong sense of project ownership and team responsibility
• 3+ years of relevant working experience and at least 3 years in a DevOps / Site ReliabilityEngineer role
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced and hectic workenvironment
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Nice to have Excellent knowledge of network engineering
• Nice to have Well versed in database management
• Nice to have Experienced with security in the cloud: Intrusion detection, penetration testing, andvulnerability scanning

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where everyemployee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and areembraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embracediversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through ourvarious Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity,race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences eachindividual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive andaccessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and preventbarriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibilityrequirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuitionassistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days andbenefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities forcommunity engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests,cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Scarborough || Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.