Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer Full Time

As a Cloud Automation Engineer, you will work alongside highly-skilled site reliability engineers and use your DevOps automation skills and cloud platform experience to ensure services are delivered efficiently and securely and to expected levels of performance and availability.   We are very focused on service quality and the role of the Cloud Automation Engineer is to own that quality and innovate with new tools and processes to ensure that RBC customers continue to have a seamless and delightful experience.   We are looking for a top notch engineer with a strong development background as well as systems administration experience.  You will get plenty of opportunity to innovate with our DevOps teams on code scalability, resiliency architecture, deployment automation, fault injection testing and more.  More than anything else, we’re looking for people who want to be part of an elite engineering team and have the opportunity to learn and grow.

What you will do?

• Develop solutions for a cutting-edge cloud-native deployment ecosystem
• Develop solutions to help the organization become leaner and replace manual processes through automation; Design and build infrastructure to enable cloud applications
• Develop effective tooling, alerts, and automated responses to identify and address reliability risks
• Improve processes through automation and optimize infrastructure utilization and cost
• Perform in-depth data analysis to gauge service trends and drive improvements
• Support services before they go live through activities such as capacity planning, monitoring setup, logging and production readiness reviews
• Troubleshoot production incidents and practice sustainable incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems and drive issue resolution with our DevOps teams
• Participate in on-call rotation with other members

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have: 

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g. EE, physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in a Systems Engineering/Operations role; min 5 years of experience in coding and Automation (Strong Terraform and Python skills)
• Experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet or other deployment/provisioning tools
• Experience with cloud platform (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP) and configuration management tool terraform
• Knowledge and experience in deploying API platforms solutions  on cloud platform (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP)
• CI/CD pipeline platforms (Jenkins, etc.) and containerized application management using Docker.

Nice To Have:

• Packer, SQL,  Knowledge
• Angular / Node JS / ELK Knowledge
• Database Experience – Postgres, Oracle, DB experience
• AI/ML Experience is a Plus

JOB SUMMARY

City:  Toronto
Address:  88 Queens Quay West
Work Hours/Week:  37.5
Work Environment:  Office
Employment Type:  Permanent
Career Level:  Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type:  Salaried
Required Travel(%):  0
Exempt/Non-Exempt:  N/A
People Manager:  No
Application Deadline:  02/28/2021
Req ID:  314579