Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

RBC Wealth Management Technology is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Wealth Management SRE Team. This team ensures the performance, availability, resilience, and operational excellence of critical applications and platforms supporting the wealth management business.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance the SRE product base – Develop intelligent monitoring, alerting, reliability testing, anomaly detection, and automated remediation capabilities.
• Implement modern observability practices – Deploy metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting across supported applications.
• Design ML-based anomaly detection and self-healing solutions – Shift from reactive to predictive operations with automated issue remediation and appropriate governance controls.
• Standardize telemetry and instrumentation – Improve visibility, coverage, and correlation of operational signals across platforms.
• Automate operational workflows – Use Ansible, GitHub Actions, and scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell) to streamline platform tasks and develop custom tooling.
• Define and track service health metrics – Establish and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and evolve runbooks into automation-first remediation patterns.
• Partner with development teams – Ensure applications meet reliability and performance standards before and after deployment through close collaboration.
• Lead incident and problem management – Troubleshoot production issues across all layers, participate in on-call rotation, and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement – Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and modernize operations using engineering and AI-driven approaches.

Requirements

• Must-have 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles with strong operational depth.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, particularly Ansible.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with modern reliability and observability tooling such as Elasticsearch, Dynatrace, GitHub, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kafka, PagerDuty, Moogsoft, or related platforms.
• Strong understanding of production operations, incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience defining and operating SLIs, SLOs, alerting strategies, and service health metrics.
• Knowledge of cloud-native and distributed systems concepts, including resiliency, scalability, fault isolation, and performance tuning.
• Understanding of AIOps, AI/ML concepts, or intelligent automation as applied to observability and operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to work across teams, influence engineering practices, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Application Infrastructure
• Group Problem Solving
• IT Automation
• IT Monitoring
• Operations Support
• Production Support
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Software Engineering
• Software Product Technical Knowledge
• System Applications
• Systems Software

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Leadership who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• The ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• To work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• A world-class training program in financial services.

Pay

• The expected salary range for this particular position is $80,000-$140,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.

Schedule

• You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

Company Information

• RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy.
• Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC.
• Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.