Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Halifax

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Bedford, QC
Mid level
Fintech • Insurance
The Role
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will enhance efficiency and reliability of production services, drive automation, and contribute to SRE initiatives across Capital Markets. Responsibilities include monitoring, alerting, automating processes, and supporting compliance while partnering with engineering teams.
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Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who is hands on and highly technical, to contribute to our ETSS production services team and help drive efficiency, reliability and automation initiatives. This role would join a Halifax/Toronto/NJ team to deliver Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Observability and other emerging technology services for application teams across Capital Markets, partnering with our engineering team. The role would be to reinforce the leading example of the SRE approach in our organization, with the aim of helping other teams adopt the practices.

The role requires an open-minded individual who has development experience, is confident with GitHub and is not afraid to fail fast and pivot when needed. An individual who seeks out gaps and inefficiencies, with an "automate and measure everything" mindset to drive efficiency and productivity improvements. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will participate in transforming technology in Capital Markets. This role will work close with client application development teams and partner with DevOps, Compute, Data engineering teams, within Capital Markets and across the broader Enterprise.

What will you do?

  • Contribute to the vision’s execution for SRE product base (monitoring, alerting, self-healing, reliability testing)

  • Contribute to functional and non-functional reviews of all production bound SRE solutions (performance, security, maintainability, compliance, change management).

  • Contribute to transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes.

  • Contribute with the team through execution of the SRE roadmap.

  • Track, audit, monitor and implement on technical work streams.

  • Support technology currency (server patching, certificate renewal, compliance, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities.


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have;

  • Computer Science degree or diploma in related discipline; an engineer mindset and experience with production class delivery; strong sense of ownership / drive

  • 3+ years of experience in production support role, supporting multiple applications

  • 5+ years of experience in Linux and good knowledge of server/networking/storage infrastructure

  • 5+ years of experience in Kubernetes and Containers

  • Familiar with releasing/maintaining cloud solutions

Nice-to-have;

  • Practical development experience

  • Knowledge of DevOps CICD tools e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible

  • Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum, Kanban

  • Experience with ElasticSearch and Kibana stack

  • Experience with Prometheus and Grafana stack

  • Experience with a public cloud technology, i.e. Azure, AWS

  • Experience building or supporting distributed applications

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

  • A world-class training program in financial services

  • Flexible work/life balance options

  • Opportunities to do challenging work

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Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Docker (Software), ElasticSearch, Enterprise Application Delivery, Grafana, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, Red Hat Ansible

Additional Job Details

Address:

90 WESTERN PKY:BEDFORD

City:

BEDFORD

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-12-19

Application Deadline:

2024-12-31

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.
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We also strive to provide an accessible candidate experience for our prospective employees with different abilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.

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The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
88,000 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 88,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada’s biggest bank, and one of the largest in the world based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com.‎

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