Staff Cloud Engineer

What is the Opportunity?

Excited about cloud technologies? Looking to make a difference helping one of the biggest enterprises in Canada build a hybrid cloud? We need your help!

In this role you will have the opportunity to develop cutting edge cloud deployment platforms and gain highly coveted experience in migrating the enterprise to the hybrid cloud. You will interact with a team of passionate cloud engineers who thrive on solving challenging technical problems and creating great products that delight customers.

If this is the type of challenge that you're passionate about, then we would like to talk to you!

As a Staff Cloud Engineer at RBC, you will build and extend enterprise platforms in AWS, leveraging Terraform to support modern development techniques and hybrid architectures. You will deliver capabilities using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps, ensuring the performance, security and reliability of cloud platforms. Collaborate with a team of skilled engineers to drive RBC’s hybrid cloud strategy, promote automation best practices, and tackle challenging technical problems. Additionally, you will create educational materials for fellow engineers and continuously enhance your technical skills through hands-on application.

What will you do?

• Build enterprise platforms in AWS for the greater bank to support modern development techniques and architectures
• Extend our Terraform pipeline support for AWS by developing Terraform modules
• Leverage containerization technologies such as Kubernetes to build multi-cloud, multitenant platforms
• Deliver capabilities using practices such as Infrastructure as Code (mostly Terraform) and GitOps
• Learn from a great team of fellow engineers in building real-world cloud scale solutions across public and private clouds
• Work closely with a team of like-minded platform engineers to build the cloud platforms as part of RBC’s hybrid cloud strategy
• Ensures the performance of cloud computing platforms and infrastructure to meet the requirements of complicated solutions.
• Promote automation and infrastructure best practices
• Fearlessly face challenging technical problems, use your superpowers to solve them, and help your peers by sharing your unique solutions
• Create awesome educational material for fellow engineers, like sample cloud native apps and starter code
• Continuously learn new technical skills and practice by applying them in your day-to-day work
• Communication skills necessary to work on a geographically distributed team.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must-have

• 5+ years’ experience with software development preferably with Python or Go.
• Solid AWS experience in a high-performance and business-critical environment, especially foundational networking, IAM, DNS resiliency etc.
• A passion for making developers more efficient through DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
• Solid experience with Infrastructure Automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes platforms
• Great diagnostic and troubleshooting skills

Nice-to-have

• Ansible, Artifactory, GitHub
• Working in a Scaled Agile Framework, Kanban, or Scrum development methodology
• SRE

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
• 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, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Technology, GitHub Actions, Go Programming Language, Hybrid Clouds, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Python (Programming Language), Terraform

Additional Job Details

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above