Montreal or Toronto Remote (City)

RBC Borealis is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Participate in code and non-functional (performance, security, maintainability, compliance, change management) reviews of all production-bound SRE solutions
  • Ensure problems are quickly identified and solved through review of Zeke / Splunk / Dynatrace / Salesforce monitoring, inbound calls, email or ServiceNow tickets while providing the highest possible level of production support
  • Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes
  • Track, audit, monitor, and implement technical work streams
  • Act as portfolio SME (Subject Matter Expert) – understand & document common components, core functionalities, and infrastructure of supported applications
  • Be an escalation point in the on-call rotation, and support our maintenance, scheduled work, support and release deployment requirements
  • Drive in incident management and problem management for applications in scope and RCA Action items fulfillment/ownership
  • Focus on Continuous improvement and technical standards – Drive improvements in productivity, monitoring, tooling, and best practices
  • Manage technology currency (server patching, certificate renewal, compliance, etc.) with a keen eye on automating opportunities
  • In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of working experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and best practices for running and maintaining critical systems, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management
  • Intermediate experience in a variety of environments (Cloud, Linux/Unix/Windows and services/APIs, databases)
  • Working experience with scripting ideally in Java/.NET and SQL
  • Strong expertise in major incident handling and communication. Issue investigation skills.
  • Effective negotiation skills, stakeholder management
  • Ability to influence the squad at an SRE level
  • Hands-on experience in a variety of SRE languages and tools (Ansible, Dynatrace Managed, Moog, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, GitHub, Slack, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana, Blue Prism, Catch Point)
  • Ability to work in a 7x24x365 work environment

Nice to Have

  • Knowledge of KAFKA, OCP, SCON infrastructure & processes
  • Knowledge of cloud platform applications and processes

Additional Information

  • Work in a 7x24x365 environment
  • Interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide
  • Application deadline: 2026-04-04 (applications accepted until 11:59 PM the day prior)
Required Skills
SQLKafka
About company
RBC Borealis
RBC Borealis, an RBC Institute for Research, is a curiosity-driven research centre dedicated to achieving state-of-the-art in machine learning. Established in 2016, with labs in Toronto, Montreal, Waterloo, and Vancouver, it supports academic collaborations and partners with world-class research centres in artificial intelligence, focusing on ethical AI to help communities thrive.
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category infrastructure
Posted 3 months ago