Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

Join an innovative team that is building cloud platform at RBC  Looking for a chance to make a difference?  Are you someone who embraces change?  As a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer, you will utilize your software and systems engineering background to support the large-scale, fault-tolerant enterprise systems. Your role is to ensure that RBC's internal Cloud Platform reliability and maximum uptime.

Supporting application team to seamlessly and efficiently utilize processes like CI/CD, infrastructure as code and platform automation, this role is looking to build on the success of automating infrastructure across the business. 

This role is pivotal in our journey towards eliminating all manual provisioning of services as well as working closely with development teams to provide an excellent developer experience to achieve our goal of doing DevOps the right way.

A very exciting aspect of this role is that you would be working on cloud platform that hosts many critical banking apps. While nobody's attained perfection yet, we're on a journey and with the support of our cloud program this is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills on an enterprise scale platform.

Ideal applicants will be working in a DevOps model, having a strong background in cloud application support and also with an interest in operations.  You'll need a good coverage of the following:

What will you do?

• Build scalable systems, using best practices around automation, pushing changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Carry out regular cloud operation task and provide support for application development teams utilizing cloud resources.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, planning and reviews
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Provide mentorship and training to other team members on technologies and processes, drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns, technical practices, and relevant technologies and tools
• Drive high standards around incident response practices and policies

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 5+ years of experience in an Operational or Support role: Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering
• 3+ years of experience deploying apps with tools like Elasticsearch, Kafka on AWS or Azure cloud environment or in Private Cloud environment
• 3+ years of experience doing development in any of Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET Core, 
• 3+ years of experience developing applications with an active user base, and deploying to production and going through any change management process (Ideal candidate is able to engage in a detailed discussion about their change management process as well as its happy/pain points)
• 5+ years of experience with development or administration on any cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP or OpenShift clusters
• Providing standardized offerings to facilitate and ensure operational health of stacks throughout their lifecycle including metrics collection, aggregation, and visualization, inventory, capacity, and billing/tag management.
• Experience with the operational aspects of software systems such as monitoring, centralized logging, and alerting, preferably Splunk and Dynatrace
• Understanding and Implementation of modern Application CICD deployment using Github Actions, Terraform, Jenkins etc
• Experience in writing automation scripts in Python, Bash, Specific cloud cli tools

Nice-to-have

• Experience with Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS), Azure Kubernetes Service (Azure)
• Experience with logging tools like Splunk.
• Experience with Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus and Grafana etc.
• Experience with automating manual processes and tests
• Experience in Elasticsearch and Kafka and OpenShift Kubernetes Environments
• Experience with IAC tools, like Terraform on an Enterprise Scale

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, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cloud Platform, Cloud Solutions, Design, ElasticSearch, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), IT Systems Integration, Performance Measurement, Requirements Analysis, Software Development, Systems Software, Technical Solutions, Terraform, Terraform (Software), Terraform on Microsoft Azure

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

Application Deadline:

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 believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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