Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Engineer, Application Maintenance & Transformation

Royal Bank of Canada$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in IT, specifically in software development or SRE.
  • 3+ years of experience with Java Spring Boot applications and REST API development.
  • 2+ years of experience with relational databases such as MS-SQL Server or MySQL.
  • Experience with containerization platforms like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes (OpenShift preferred).
  • Familiarity with centralized logging solutions (e.g., Elk Stack) and active monitoring systems (e.g., Dynatrace).
  • Experience in deploying and operating cloud-native applications in private (OpenShift) or public cloud (Azure/AWS).

Responsibilities

  • Develop SRE automation and operational improvements for software applications.
  • Participate in the deployment of financial software applications and automation tools.
  • Review and validate software code for quality and performance.
  • Manage change, incident, and problem for platform components.
  • Serve as scrum master or Kanban lead for team tasks.
  • Conduct technical meetings and collaborate with infrastructure teams on POCs.
  • Maintain DevOps pipelines and perform chaos engineering activities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program, including bonuses and flexible benefits.
  • Development support from leadership through coaching and opportunities.
  • Ability to make a meaningful impact in the community.
  • Dynamic and collaborative high-performing team environment.
  • World-class training program in financial services.
  • Flexible work/life balance options.
  • Opportunities for challenging work.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Developing SRE automation and operational improvements/solutions, actively participate in deploying software applications and automation tools, and IT infrastructure. Review, verify, and validate the software code developed for quality and performance. Participate in change Management, Incident and problem Management for the platform and/or any dependent components which the product engineering teams rely on for their work. Provides information on the detailed technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Applies experience, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments.

What will you do?

  • 40% of time will be developing SRE automation and operational improvements/solutions.
  • 40% of time actively participate in deploying various operationally critical financial software applications and automation tools, and IT infrastructure. Review, verify, and validate the software code developed for quality and performance.
  • Participate in change Management, Incident and problem Management for the platform and/or any dependent components which the product engineering teams rely on for their work.
  • 10% of time playing the role of scrum master or Kanban driving the team tasks.
  • 10% attending technical meetings, trainings with cross functional teams, Infrastructure and platform teams, performing POC's for roadmap items.
  • Maintain and improve DevOPS pipelines, frameworks, perform chaos engineering activities
  • Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
  • Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations.
  • Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools
  • Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs).
  • Improve processes/runbooks and champion automation of any manual items around support.
  • Service level metric understanding and responsible for consistently meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) for services owned by group.
  • Drive a culture of reliability, and ensuring teams are aligned around common priorities and approaches defined by Senior leadership.
  • Assist Sr. Manager in capacity planning and cost optimization.
  • Drive resolution and stakeholder communication during incidents. The candidate should adapt at prioritizing multiple issues in a high stress environment.


What do you need to succeed?

Must have
  • Bachelor of Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years' IT experience in software development and/or maintenance or SRE experience.
  • 3+ years' experience working on Java Spring boot applications and rest API development.
  • 2+ years' experience working on relational databases - MS-SQL Server or MySQL, MariaDB and SingleStore or any in-memory distributed databases.
  • Experience working on Containerization platforms such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes (OpenShift Kubernetes Service preferred).
  • Must have Experience using centralized logging solutions (Splunk, Elk (preferred), etc.) and active monitoring systems (Catchpoint or Dynatrace etc.)
  • Must have Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications in a Private cloud (OpenShift) or public cloud (Azure and/or AWS preferred)
  • Experience working on SAP Business Objects Business intelligence applications.
  • Must be Self-starter, self-motivated, resourceful, and driven to work with cross functional teams in large enterprises with complex org structures to meet business timelines on delivery.
  • Solid Git skills with experience working on popular CI tools - Jenkins or UCD
  • Experience working on PagerDuty, Postman, ServiceNow, SonarQube, NexusIQ and vault tools.


Nice to have:
  • Exposure to Snowflake environment and experience setting up data pipelines and ETL processes integrating data from various sources into the Enterprise Datawarehouse's or Snowflake.
  • SnowPro Core Certification and/or Exposure to Datawarehouse's like Informatica.
  • Experience implementing dashboards to help teams visualize logs, instrumentation to ensure optimal performance of the platform services, infrastructure, and deployed applications (preferably Grafana).
  • Experience creating runbooks, processes, and test plans around reliability, performance, etc. of infra/applications
  • Exposure to IBM Mainframe tools and environment.


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
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


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Job Skills
Agile Methodology, API Documentation, Apigee API, DevOps, Elk Stack, Grafana, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Communication, IT Automation, IT Monitoring, Java APIs, MemSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Snowflake Data Warehouse, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Product Technical Knowledge, Splunk, Structured Query Language (SQL), System Applications

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-05-07

Application Deadline:

2026-07-17
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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