Site Reliability Engineer

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• Position: Site Reliability Engineer
• Client: Financial Services - Capital Markets Technology
• Duration: 12-month contract with potential extensions
• Location: Toronto, Canada - 2 to 3 days onsite per week
• Language: English
• Hours: 37.5 hours/week

Our client is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance the reliability, performance, and efficiency of mission‑critical batch workloads across Capital Markets Technology. The SRE will serve as a technical lead focused on automation, application development, systems performance engineering, and observability using Dynatrace. This position is pivotal in driving operational excellence and maturing reliability practices across the organization.

• Expert‑level Python skills, including performance tuning, concurrency (async/multiprocessing), testing, and packaging.
• Strong Linux systems engineering expertise (kernel tuning, networking, process management, file system optimization).
• Proven experience optimizing batch workloads for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Deep knowledge of Dynatrace for observability (dashboards, KPIs, tagging, alerts, anomaly detection).
• Hands‑on experience with Apache Airflow (DAG design, scheduler tuning, SLA management).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts — retries, idempotency, back pressure, data integrity.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent incident management, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

• Reliability & Performance:
  Engineer resilient and performant batch processing pipelines by reducing runtime and minimizing failures.
• Observability:
  Implement and maintain Dynatrace dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to ensure deep visibility into system health.
• Systems Engineering:
  Configure and tune Linux and Windows environments for optimal reliability and speed.
• Automation & Orchestration:
  Design and refine Airflow DAGs, automate deployments with CI/CD pipelines, and reduce operational toil through code.
• Incident Management:
  Lead incident response, conduct root‑cause analysis, and implement improvements based on post‑mortems and SLOs.
• Security & Compliance:
  Ensure all reliability and automation processes adhere to security best practices and regulatory compliance standards.

Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a full-time employment role with Kyndryl Canada.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Contract

• Information Technology

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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