Senior Site Reliability Engineer

What is the opportunity?

The Application Support SRE will be responsible for the support, development, and implementation of Site Reliability Engineering solutions for all applications within City National Bank (CNB), an RBC company. This team will work collaboratively with teams across several lines of business and other Technology and Operations partners as a requirement to succeed in its mandate. This individual will need advanced knowledge and experience working in an application development, support and/or technology operations organization. They should be able to take on a production support role and part with the SRE team in Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking and/or Wealth Management

What will you do?

• Perform application production support role including off-hours support.
• Development of SRE solutions (monitoring and alerting, machine learning anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing)
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
  Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
• Assist in incident management and problem management for applications in scope
• Maintain technology currency (manage server patching, certificate renewal, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities.
• Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives.
• Ensure compliance of all systems and applications in scope, including maintaining segregation of duties

• Implement monitoring and alerting, anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing for applications in scope
• Supports unit’s goals to adopt automation solutions for applications in scope
• Apply design-thinking and agile mindset in working with SREs, Scrum Masters and partner team leads
• Stay abreast of technology change and learn constantly, through official training assignments and self-assigned learning.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Minimum 2+ years of related experience in Application support, Software development (SDLC, working knowledge of at least two of C/C++, Java, Golang, Python, .NET) and Operations (SRE, DevOps, Cloud, Data)
• Advanced knowledge of industry practice (Financial Institution) with a focus on SRE
• Advanced experience in a variety of environments (Linux, Windows, Databases, Cloud, distributed and mainframe, business workflows, and Services/APIs).  
• Able to automate simple tasks to reduce the toil, and increase operating system efficiency.
• Hands-on experience in a variety of SRE languages and tools (Ansible, Dynatrace, Moogsoft, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana, Blue Prism, Catch Point, Grafana)
• Effective negotiation skills, and stakeholder management
• Excellent communication skills, direct style
• Consumer banking experience

Nice-to-have

• Experience working as an SRE within the Financial Trading Industry

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 competitive compensation, bonuses, and flexible benefits
• Continued opportunities for career advancement
• World-class sales training, coaching, and development opportunities
• Support from a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high performing team, as well as world-class tools and training
• Opportunity to achieve great success and grow your career with RBC

The good-faith expected salary range for the above position is $80,000 - $135,000 depending on factors including but not limited to the candidate’s experience, skills, registration status; market conditions; and business needs.  This salary range does not include other elements of total compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits such as a 401(k) program with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; and paid time-off plan.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

·       Drives RBC’s high performance culture

·       Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

·       Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

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Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Application Infrastructure, Group Problem Solving, IT Automation, IT Monitoring, Operations Support, Production Support, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Product Technical Knowledge, System Applications, Systems Software

Additional Job Details

GOLDMAN SACHS TOWER, 30 HUDSON STREET:JERSEY CITYJersey CityUnited States of America40Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2024-08-202024-11-22