Senior SRE Engineer

What Is The Opportunity?

We are looking to expand our Digital team at RBC. If you are looking for an exciting, high-growth opportunity with a leading financial institution that is accelerating cloud native area this could be the job for you. Are you looking for a chance to make a difference? Are you someone who embraces change?

We are looking for an individual who exemplifies the attributes of a leader, mentor and decision-maker. We are currently building out our SRE team, with the goal being to provide expertise and tooling to manage the health, security, and availability of their applications in production. We work with other teams to provide guidance throughout the lifecycle of building, deploying, and operating the application.

What Will You Do? 

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health

• Build tools to manage platform infrastructure and applications

• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack and provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications

• Help adopt and drive the tool creation for application health monitoring and alerting.

• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions

• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of application team needs, and innovating to continually improve

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.

• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.

• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.

• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.

• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives. 

Technical Leadership

• Provide SRE thought leadership on the squad level

• Perform code and non-functional (performance, security, maintainability) reviews of all production-bound SRE solutions

• Help drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes

• Run engineering mindset meetups accelerating breadth and depth of knowledge in the community

• Manage application assets and users (virtual machines, cloud instances, source code repositories, etc.)

• Publish technical design for SRE solutions

• Publish and/or review implementation plans for SRE solutions bound to production

• Explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation (including coding and publishing how-to documentation)

Production Support + Development

• Perform production support role, including off-hours support

• Assist in incident management and problem management for applications in scope

• Evaluate continuously – what went well, what went wrong, what can be done to improve and prevent in future

• Maintain technology currency (perform server patching, certificate renewal, etc.) with a keen eye on automating opportunities

• Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives

• Ensure compliance with all systems and applications in scope, including maintaining segregation of duties

What Do You Need To Succeed? 
Must have:

• Overall, 5-10 years of support experience in Openshift, Azure & Kubernetes.

• 5-7 years of experience as an SRE supporting multiple applications

• Have very strong programming skills in Java/JavaScript/Typescript/Python

• SQL database operational experience in the cloud/on-premise and writing/understanding database queries (SQL and/or No-SQL)

• Object Oriented design and development

• Exposure to UCD, PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), and GitHub is desirable

• Having a good overall understanding of networking-related areas like certificates, load balancers etc.

• Monitoring using Splunk, Dynatrace, RUM, Grafana & other related tools

• Experience with the operational aspects of software systems such as monitoring, centralized logging, and alerting.

• Experience in micro-services, public cloud (Azure preferred) & container technologies

• Working knowledge of Mainframes & JCL is nice to have

Nice-to-have:

• Knowledge of public cloud (Microsoft Azure and AWS) and private cloud (OpenShift) platforms and development of applications in multi-cloud, hybrid environments

• Knowledge of containers and orchestration (e.g: Docker, Kubernetes)

RBC is committed to supporting flexible work arrangements when and where available. Details to be discussed with Hiring Manager.

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

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

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