Technical Lead - SRE & Application support - Tangerine

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking digital bank that is redefining the Canadian banking landscape! In this exciting role, you will be part of a dynamic team responsible for maintaining production applications and ensuring system reliability. You will tackle complex technical challenges, drive improvements, and optimize performance in a collaborative environment. With a focus on innovation and customer satisfaction, this position offers you the chance to make a real impact while enjoying a flexible workspace and a culture that celebrates diversity. If you are ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive team

Access to online and in-person courses

Pension and benefits programs

Flexible workspace

Recognition of success

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and team player in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with incident management and monitoring alerts.
• Proficient in programming and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Maintain production applications and manage operational activities.
• Monitor system health and lead incident resolution efforts.
• Analyze metrics for performance tuning and fault finding.

Skills

Networking Concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, OSI Model)

Multi-tier Applications

Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes)

Cloud Monitoring (preferably GCP)

Programming Languages (Java, Node, Python)

Scripting Languages (Terraform, Bash)

Incident Management

Code Versioning (Git/Bitbucket)

Automation and Process Improvements

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

4-5 years of experience in production support or SRE

Tools

Splunk

Ansible

Dynatrace

ServiceNow

PagerDuty

Job description

Requisition ID: 208518

Tangerine is Canada’s leading direct bank. We offer flexible and accessible banking options, innovative products, and award-winning Client service. The reason why Tangerine employees come to work each day is to help Canadians live better lives. We focus on making a difference in our communities, and that includes our own internal community. It’s important to us that our employees feel empowered and enthusiastic about belonging to our Orange culture.

As Canada’s leading digital bank, Tangerine technology is at the heart of everything we do. We have redefined what digital banking is, and we continue to evolve to tackle any opportunity and face every challenge through progressive technology and the power of collaboration.

Do you like new challenges? Are you ready to reach new heights in your career and become part of an established disruptor? If so, come join us and help redefine the Canadian banking landscape!

What you will be doing:

SRE & Production Application Support is responsible for providing technical expertise to resolve application and infrastructure technology issues on medium to highly complex projects in compliance with service standards, policies, and procedures. The role troubleshoots complex issues for all levels, evaluating service requests for adherence to service standards and processes, and identifying inconsistencies to determine potential impact and take appropriate action. The Production Application Support exercises independent judgement to analyze and resolve production application problems to identify root causes and define actions to eliminate recurrence. The role coordinates and executes project plans using control procedures to implement application and maintenance updates. In addition, the role monitors and analyzes supported services and deployment methodologies to identify opportunities for improvement and recommend solutions. The role devises new methods and procedures using strong analytic and inductive thinking.

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

• You’ll be joining Tangerine’s SRE & Production Support team.
• You’ll be responsible for maintaining the production applications and day-to-day operational activities, manage escalations and modify established procedures / approaches to suit specific situations including 24 x 7 support and coordination of recovery efforts.
• You will run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Lead Daily team huddles, responsible for incident assignment and ensure timely closure of all customer escalations and problems.
• Responsible for coaching and monitoring team and help them resolving the complex/critical production incidents/problems.
• You’ll be responsible for providing investigation and second level support on client issues, technical issues, system/web site outages and questions from all internal and external application by maintaining, prioritization and addressing to respective Tangerine technology groups and vendors.
• Lead on-call problem escalation and outage recovery effort, not limited to code fixes in presentation and integration layer, but also provide infrastructure level investigation and support where necessary.
• Lead post-incident technical retrospect to discover and implement remediation actions.
• You will improve our suite of software solutions' reliability, quality, and time-to-market.
• Measure and optimize system performance to push our capabilities forward, get ahead of customer needs, and innovate to improve continually.
• Participate in defining SLIs, SLOs and SLAs for Enterprise Systems.
• Gather and analyze metrics from both applications and infrastructure to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and process improvements.
• Monitor multiple application health and discover opportunities to optimize in a continuously growing large complex hybrid environment.

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

• Be self-motivated, autonomous and a team player in a fast-paced environment.
• Good understanding of networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, OSI Model.
• Good understanding of multi-tier applications, micro services (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience instrumenting and monitoring cloud hosted software stacks (preferably GCP).
• Working knowledge of one or more programming languages (Java, Nodes, Python, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of one or more scripting languages (Terraform, Bash etc.).
• 4-5 years of experience in developing and/or supporting complex, large-scale customer-facing platforms.
• Strong working experience with incident management and setting up monitoring alerts.
• Have a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/Bitbucket.
• Knowledge about building a highly automated production monitoring and support model, hands-on experience integrating Splunk, Ansible, Dynatrace, Sumologic, Service now, PagerDuty.com, or equivalents.
• Proven ability to translate ideas into technical and business realities and map technology to business problems.
• Experience with private/public cloud services and platforms.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence decision-making with stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Flexible approach to work and the ability to adapt to change.
• Prior production support or SRE experience.
• Proficient with MS suite.

What's in it for you?

• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of Client-focused go-getters looking to learn from each other in an environment that celebrates and recognizes success!
• You will have access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can shape your career growth with the support from diverse industry leaders.
• You will get our help to save for your future and to invest in your total wellbeing through our Tangerine benefits*.
• You belong here, we are equal and un-complicated. Bring your true self to work, dress codes don’t apply here.
• You will enjoy workspace flexibility and all the excitement that comes from working at the official Bank of the Toronto Raptors.

*Tangerine employees participate in Scotiabank’s pension & benefits programs (available to permanent employees)

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.