Site Reliability Engineering Specialist

Job Description

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is one of the largest financial institutions in North America. We are a company made up of talented and dedicated people who invest their skills, energy, and passion into making us the successful organization we are today. You can find RBC on the Great Place to Work 2022 list of Canada’s Best Workplaces for Hybrid Work.

What is the opportunity?

RBC Wealth Management Technology & Solutions (RBC WMTS) is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Specialist who exemplifies the attributes of a leader, mentor, and decision maker. We are building our SRE team to provide expertise and tooling to the RBC Wealth Management application teams to manage the health, security, and availability of our 3rd party vendor applications in production.

What will you do?

1. Design and implement RBC WMTS SRE practices for 3rd party vendor applications.
2. Build and maintain SRE partnership with RBC's largest Wealth Management 3rd party vendor.
3. Drive proactive monitoring solutions for 3rd party vendor hosted applications.
4. Implement and drive proactive monitoring solutions for internally hosted applications.
5. Mentor new and upcoming SRE resources.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

1. 4+ years SRE experience supporting multiple applications with broad systems exposure, 1-2 years SRE experience in a large financial services organization.
2. Good overall understanding of networking related areas like certificates, load balancers, etc.
3. Experience in monitoring using Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Catchpoint OR other related tools.
4. Analytical mindset with a passion for understanding the details.
5. Creative mindset to bring new ideas and methods to increase resiliency.
6. SRE thought leadership to drive change, debate with passion and knowing when to pivot.

Nice-to-have:

1. Working knowledge of Mainframes & JCL.
2. Experience in micro-services, public cloud (Azure preferred) & container technologies.
3. Exposure to UCD, Openshift, Kubernetes, PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), GitHub.
4. Experience in Vendor Management, application development, database, system engineering and/or systems analysis.

What’s in it for you?

1. Opportunity to be on the ground floor in creating an SRE Vendor Management Practice in WMTS.
2. Work with teams across North America while being located with other WMTS SRE resources in RBC's new Calgary SRE Hub.
3. Join a team with Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
4. Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
5. Hybrid work model that offers a flexible work/life balance.
6. Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

Job Skills: Agile Methodology, Group Problem Solving, IT Systems Integration, Organizational Leadership, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, System Applications, System Integration Testing (SIT), Systems Software.

Additional Job Details

Address: 335 8 AVE SW: CALGARY
City: CALGARY
Country: Canada
Work hours/week: 37.5
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: Technology and Operations
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2024-05-28
Application Deadline: 2024-06-14

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