DevOps and Platforms Engineer

What is the opportunity?

Looking for a chance to make a difference? Are you someone who embraces change?   Passionate about furthering business through innovative software solutions?

We believe in collaboration, collective ownership and continuous improvement. Our team is supporting multiple initiatives across business and development teams.

As a DevOps and Platforms engineer you will be responsible to Provides technical support on system infrastructure architecture, design, development and testing of customized cloud computing solutions. Applies experience and seasoned knowledge, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments.

For example, build out and maintain various platforms, e.g. Apache Airflow, Dash applications, Dask computing, and others. This role will take on challenges of scaling out systems for performance and multi-tenancy across all dimensions using cutting-edge technology. Transform and accelerate our software delivery pipelines. Act as the keeper of DevOps tooling and the central orchestrator of DevOps activities with a mandate to drive down delivery/change lead times, batch sizes, mean time to recovery, and change failure rates.

What will you do?

• Directly engage in hands-on development, research and mentoring in support of driving modern engineering practices including CI (Continuous Integration), CD (Continuous Delivery), Continuous Health Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Audit Logging, Live Metrics, Circuit Breakers and Containerization

• Provides technical support on system infrastructure architecture, design, development and testing of customized solutions.

• Plan the platform requirements to deploy and scale the platforms applications on OpenShift, design and build resilient and highly available multi-tenant solutions.

• Delivering expert technical and business support for system integration into existing platforms.

• Work closely with development, operations, and quality assurance teams to foster a DevOps culture. Apply SRE concepts to provide a highly available service leveraging automation to ensure the team and platform can scale to meet incoming demand

• Oversee the use of configuration management tools and ensure best practices are followed.

• Promote communication and collaboration across technical teams to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.

• Incorporate security practices into the development lifecycle, including regular vulnerability assessments and adherence to security policies. Spearhead security initiatives and integrate security considerations into all stages of SDLC.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry security standards.

• Contribute to successful project completion by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies

• Continually assess and implement emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance operational efficiencies.

• Lead the evaluation of new tools and technologies, making strategic recommendations that align with business goals.

What do you need to succeed?  

Must have:

• Hands-on experience with RedHat OpenShift Container Platform or any enterprise Kubernetes platform

• Software Engineer where you developed apps for production; 8+ years of experience doing Python development.

• Experience with container-based platforms

• Experience with distributed systems, designing and building for resiliency and performance.

• 8+ years of experience in an operational role e.g., DevOps Engineer, SRE, etc

• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud-native engineering and experience with developing / using CI/CD pipelines through referenceable projects  

• Experience with CLI tools for declarative management of Kubernetes objects.

• Open mind, a desire to learn and to be challenged

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes Application Developer/Administrator Certification is an asset

• NodeJS/.NET/Java programming language is an asset

• Experience with Apache Airflow, Dash, Dask, Spark, Kafka, Grafana

• Solid understanding of general networking principles and common protocols

• Experience in operational / incident management tools such as ServiceNow, PagerDuty,

• Monitoring Stack : Kibana, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus

• Logging Stack: ELK,  Splunk

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

• 4 weeks’ vacation

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Job Skills

ASP.NET C#, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Platform, Communication, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integrations, Design, DevOps, Infrastructure Architecture, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Node.js, Organizational Change Management, Performance Measurement, Process Management, Python (Programming Language), Requirements Analysis, Security Standards, Stakeholder Management, Systems Software, Windows Migration

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeWEALTH MANAGEMENTRegularSalaried2024-10-252024-11-22