Platform Engineer

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Scotiabank Full time

Requisition ID: 203739
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Contributes to the overall success of the Event Driven Architecture and Real time events platform globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team's business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

The Platform Engineer role is a cross-functional role within Software Engineering team with involvement at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the DevOps method of communication, collaboration and integration.

Platform Engineers are responsible for design, implementation, and ongoing support of the production services, applications and platform components that comprise our backend platform. In this role you have the opportunity to leverage your technical skills in systems management, software development and devops to provide best-practices guidance and provide tier-3 support.

It is essential that the incumbent to be proactive, eager to learn, have a 'Can Do' and self-driven attitude, and demonstrate initiative and eagerness to succeed.

Accountabilities

  • Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
  • Work closely with software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high performance solutions for our platform as a service and internal management tools.
  • Drive automation of application deployment for production and pre-release environments.
  • Define monitoring requirements and implement automated incident resolution solutions.
  • Design, implement and manage continuous integration, build management and deployment scripts and systems.
  • Provide tier-3 troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services.
  • Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot simple and complex issues in order to provide outstanding support for internal service level objectives.
  • Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within Platform Services Operations; recommend solutions and assist in overseeing implementation. Actively facilitate continuous improvement.
  • Ensure all necessary operational processes and procedures are carried out with a high level of attention to detail, expediency and on-time delivery.
  • Define and document standard run books and operating procedures. Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams.
  • Monitor various systems capacity and health indicators and trends; provide analytics & forecasts for added or reduced capacity as required.
  • Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
  • Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank's Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
  • Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment

Education / Experience / Other Information

  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations
  • 5+ years of software development experience in a commercial environment.

Solid experience working with large private or public clouds

  • A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
  • Solid technical experience building and supporting applications using technologies such as Kafka, Java, SpringBoot, RESTful services, No SQL databases and Microservices in cloud
  • Working Experience in Cloud technologies - IaaS, PaaS and Docker containers
  • Knowledge or Proven experience with a cloud provider (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
  • Working knowledge of Confluent Cloud (Fully Managed) – Kafka in Azure and/or GCP is preferred
  • Understanding of Kafka Single Message Transforms(SMTs), KStreams, KSQLDB, Schema Registry, Kafka producers and?consumers
  • Configure and Operate Kafka Monitoring and alerting using C3, Dynatrace and Splunk
  • Install, configure, set up and operate Docker containers
  • Must be familiar with DevOps software engineering culture and practice.
  • Deploy pipelines for CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Gradle/Maven, BitBucket, Ansible)
  • Expertise in Unix Shell, Python and Ansible scripting
  • Should possess working knowledge of Kubernetes
  • Should possess familiarity with a NoSQL database
  • Knowledge and experience in securing data both in transit and at rest (data encryption, PKI, TLS, HTTPS)
  • Knowledge and experience of Disaster Recovery and Failover of applications, platform and services.
  • English proficiency. Good communicator- written and oral as the role involves interactions with lot of stakeholders
  • Excellent team player with experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Good organizational skills, excellent problem-solving, and excellent communication skills.
  • Must be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment, make quick and sound decisions under pressure.
  • Must be reliable, pro-active, results-oriented, customer-focused and attentive to details.
  • Must be able to think conceptually out-of-the-box.
  • Minimal educational requirements are a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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