Staff, Site Reliability Engineer(Global Security) at RBC — NeverHard
Staff, Site Reliability Engineer(Global Security) at RBC in Toronto, Ontario. Skills: API Design, Cloud Architecture, High Availability, IAM technologies, Infrastructure Automation. Apply on NeverHard.
Company
RBC
Location
Toronto, Ontario
Type
full_time
Required skills:
API Design
Cloud Architecture
High Availability
IAM technologies
Infrastructure Automation
Platform Development
Site Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Systems Automation
coding
What is the opportunity?
We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who is passionate about building scalable systems, automating infrastructure, and improving the reliability of production environments. You will work closely with system support, engineering and infrastructure teams to ensure the availability, performance, and efficiency of our IAM systems and services. This is a technical, execution-focused role with deep engineering work.
What will you do?
Serve as the senior-most technical voice for IAM reliability - setting architecture direction and reliability standards, and leading by example through hands-on design, coding, and operations
Own service reliability for IAM systems end-to-end by defining and maintaining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, and using them to drive prioritization and continuous improvement
Design and implement resilient, highly available IAM infrastructure and services - spanning authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, and privileged access - across multi-region and hybrid-cloud architectures
Write and review production-grade code (services, APIs, automation frameworks, and internal tools), applying software engineering rigor - testing, code review, version control, modular design - to reliability work rather than treating it as throwaway scripting
Build self-service platforms, reusable modules, and golden-path automation that let application teams provision, deploy, and safely operate IAM services with less hand-holding from the production support team
Champion Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes/Helm) to eliminate manual toil, enforce consistency, and enable safe, repeatable deployments at scale
Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and release engineering for IAM services, embedding reliability, security, and rollback safety directly into the delivery pipeline
Lead incident response and on-call operations for high-severity IAM outages and performance degradations, driving root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and long-term structural remediation
Build and evolve observability, monitoring, and alerting pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) using modern tooling to proactively detect, investigate, and resolve availability and security issues before they impact users
Develop and test failover strategies and recovery procedures, including chaos engineering exercises, backup validation, and disaster recovery simulations to validate IAM system readiness
Orchestrate workload automation, scheduling, and release pipelines across enterprise systems (e.g., Stonebranch, CI/CD platforms) to streamline delivery and reduce manual operational overhead
Partner with security, infrastructure, application, and compliance teams to embed IAM into enterprise-wide business continuity and resilience strategy, ensuring alignment with risk and regulatory mandates
Mentor and coach engineers on reliability, automation-first thinking, and sound software engineering practice; help raise the bar for how the broader team builds and operates IAM services
What do you need to succeed?
Must Have:
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering with demonstrated staff/senior-level technical leadership across SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and driving continuous reliability improvement at scale
Solid software engineering fundamentals - proficient in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Java, or similar), with the ability to design and build production-quality services and tooling, not just automation scripts
Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems in production, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Strong DevOps foundation - experience owning CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and release engineering practices that build reliability into the delivery process itself
Platform-engineering mindset - a track record of turning recurring operational work into self-service tooling, reusable modules, or golden-path automation that other engineering teams can adopt independently
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments
Deep knowledge of building and operating monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK, Splunk, SIEM) to enable proactive incident detection and response
Proven incident management skills - able to lead high-severity incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes, and to drive long-term fixes
Proficient in disaster recovery, failover strategies, and resilience testing (e.g., chaos engineering, tabletop exercises) to validate system readiness
Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid environments, including experience supporting production workloads at scale
Excellent collaboration
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