Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Tempo or OpenObserve)

• A strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, data structures, algorithms and testing techniques, with strong technical knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps 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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Job Skills

Active Learning, Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Analytical Thinking, Ansible (Software), Application Integrations, Cloud-Native Computing, Communication, Computer Science, Detail-Oriented, DevOps, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Network Automation, Programming Languages, Python (Programming Language), Red Hat Ansible, Results-Oriented, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, SRE Observability, Technical Knowledge {+ 1 more}

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-11-122026-12-31

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One 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.

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.