Lead SRE Engineer

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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Fintech • Insurance
The Role
The Lead SRE Engineer at RBC is responsible for leading the development, implementation, and support of SRE solutions for US Cash Management Technology. This includes managing platform infrastructure, improving software reliability and quality, and supporting incident and problem management. The role also focuses on automation of processes and ensuring application uptime.
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Job Description

What is the opportunity?
RBC is seeking a Lead SRE for our US Cash Management Technology. This is a brand-new system to serve our corporate clients. You will be heavily involved in shaping the future technology landscape of RBC, by delivering key business values for a transformational project in our Banking Technology while implementing strategic components servicing across all RBC functions defined in our roadmap. This role will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and support of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) solutions for applications supported by the Commercial, Core Banking and Payments Technology (CCBPT) within US Cash Management.


What will you do?
Provide SRE technical leadership on squad level
Lead code and non-functional (performance, security, maintainability, compliance, change management) reviews of all production bound SRE solutions
Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes
Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
Support incident management and problem management for applications in scope and RCA Action items fulfillment/ownership
Focus on Continuous improvement and technical standards – Drive improvements in productivity, monitoring, tooling and best practices
Manage technology currency (server patching, certificate renewal, compliance, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities
Drive best-in-class technical solutions by tracking closely industry leading solutions and applying to RBC environment and needs
Leverage the value in unit, department, and enterprise wide teams to develop better solutions and achieve a cross enterprise mindset
Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives.
Implement monitoring and alerting, anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing for applications in scope

 
Production Support:
Be an escalation point in the on-call rotation, and support our maintenance, scheduled work, support, and release deployment requirements
Lead in incident management and problem management for applications in scope
Drive improvements in productivity, monitoring, tooling, and best practices
Manage technology currency (patching, certificate renewal, compliance, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities
Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives
 
What do you need to succeed?
Must have:
5+ years of experience as Site Reliability Engineer
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field (Example: Mathematics/Engineering/Physics), or equivalent practical experience.
Advanced knowledge of the following SRE practices and technologies
Python, YAML, Shell scripting
Azure, Linux
Dynatrace, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Moog, Splunk, Elastic, Azure monitor, Grafana
Chaos Engineering
MQ, Kafka
Perform production support role, including off-hours support
Effective negotiation skills, and stakeholder management
Excellent communication skills
 
Nice-to-have: 
In-depth hands-on experience in a variety of SRE tools (Ansible, Azure Automation, Catchpoint)
Experience working as an SRE within the Financial 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 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, Group Problem Solving, IT Systems Integration, Organizational Leadership, Product Services, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications, System Integration Testing (SIT), Systems Software

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-11-08

Application Deadline:

2024-11-30

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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Top Skills

Python
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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