Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

Join RBC as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and be part of the bank’s major transformation journey.

This role offers the chance to drive innovation, align with our business partners and industry changes, and build excellence in skills and capabilities. In this role you will develop next generation network and infrastructure automation and observability solutions, integrating industry frameworks and tools with AI and analytics. You will work with a team of passionate software and infrastructure engineers who thrive on solving challenging technical problems and creating great products.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Collaborate in the design and development of the next generation of infrastructure automation and observability by fostering software engineering practices that reduce toil and optimize infrastructure

Scale infrastructure sustainably through automation, using Ansible, Python and Infrastructure as Code

Build, maintain and support high-performance, scalable observability services that power AI-driven insights and advanced analytics

Build infrastructure and application monitoring that measures availability, latency and system health, and define SLOs and error budgets with partner teams

Lead the design of automation and observability components, from technical direction through to production support

Contribute to the team’s AI-enabled SDLC practices, including prompt standards, guardrails, and quality and security checks for AI-generated code

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?
Must have:

5+ years of software engineering experience, including designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

Strong hands-on experience with Ansible (playbooks, roles, collections, inventories) for infrastructure automation

Strong proficiency in Python for building automation, services and APIs

Infrastructure as Code practices:
Git-based workflows, automated testing and CI/CD for infrastructure changes

Experience building and supporting scalable, modern observability and monitoring pipelines using one or more open-source solutions (such as Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Tempo or Open Observe)

A strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, data structures, algorithms and testing techniques, with strong technical knowledge of CI/CD, Dev Ops and engineering practices

Experience building software and deploying applications with containers and Kubernetes

Nice-to-have
:

Experience with Go and Terraform

Experience with public cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS

Network Infrastructure Experience

Experience building AI agents and applying AI across the SDLC

Experience building user interfaces using React and modern frontend tooling

Experience with SNMP and gNMI

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

Opportunities to do challenging work

Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Access to a variety of job opportunities across business

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