Royal Bank of Canada

Senior SRE/AIOps Engineer

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of SRE or Systems Engineering experience
  • Strong experience with ServiceNow and ITSM processes
  • Familiarity with containerized platforms like Kubernetes
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash and Python
  • Experience in both Linux and Windows Server administration
  • In-depth knowledge of monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Moogsoft
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Own the incident management lifecycle
  • Lead problem management and eliminate recurring issues
  • Develop and maintain runbooks and playbooks
  • Drive resilience engineering including failover testing
  • Implement and optimize AIOps capabilities
  • Design and implement automation-first solutions with Ansible.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Support for your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact in the community
  • Work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Opportunities to take on challenging work.
Full Job Description
Job Description

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) capabilities to ensure system reliability, proactive monitoring, and automation of self-healing operations. In addition to day-to-day support, the position provides end-to-end operational ownership across systems managed by multiple enterprise teams, including incident coordination, dependency management, and escalation. The role is also responsible for key security and compliance functions such as service ID and certificate management, SSO updates, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management of end-of-life components.

Our team supports a portfolio of multi-platform HR data pipelines that move and process data into Snowflake through multiple integrated components, requiring end-to-end monitoring, coordination, and support across systems.
In addition, we support SaaS-based applications that are primarily vendor-managed, while we retain responsibility for integration, access management, monitoring, and operational oversight.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Key Responsibilities:

SRE & Reliability Engineering
  • Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Own the incident management lifecycle (detection 12 triage 12 resolution 12 RCA 12 prevention)
  • Lead problem management and eliminate recurring issues
  • Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures
  • Drive resilience engineering, including failover testing and capacity planning


AIOps, Observability & Logging
  • Implement and optimize AIOps capabilities using platforms such as Moogsoft
  • Leverage Dynatrace for deep APM insights
  • Integrate alerting and escalation workflows with PagerDuty
  • Utilize synthetic monitoring via Catchpoint
  • Design and maintain centralized logging solutions using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and enterprise Logging as a Service (LaaS) platforms
  • Perform log analysis, correlation, and anomaly detection to support proactive issue identification
  • Drive event noise reduction and intelligent alerting strategies
  • Build dashboards and observability KPIs for operational insights


Automation & Self-Healing Systems
  • Design and implement automation-first solutions using Ansible and scripting (Python, Bash)
  • Enable self-healing capabilities (auto-remediation, restart logic, workflow recovery)
  • Orchestrate workflows using Stonebranch
  • Reduce operational toil through automation and continuous improvement


Application & Data Platform Support
  • Provide L2/L3 support for data pipelines and integration workflows, including Snowflake ingestion and transformation processes
  • Support Snowflake pipelines, ETL workflows, and orchestration dependencies
  • Troubleshoot across distributed systems including:
    • Object storage (e.g., S3)
    • APIs, messaging, and file transfer systems
  • Support containerized workloads on OpenShift


Infrastructure & Platform Expertise
  • Administer and support Windows Server and IIS-based applications
  • Manage certificate lifecycle (TLS, SAML, OAuth)
  • Support SSO integrations via Microsoft Entra ID
  • Work with relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) for troubleshooting and performance tuning


Disaster Recovery & Resiliency
  • Lead and coordinate Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and execution
  • Validate failover processes across dependent systems
  • Ensure end-to-end DR readiness across integrated platforms
  • Document recovery strategies and participate in DR exercises


Governance, Compliance & Collaboration
  • Ensure adherence to enterprise security, compliance, and audit requirements
  • Collaborate with IAM, PAM, logging, and cloud platform teams
  • Support change management, CAB processes, and release coordination
  • Provide reporting, KPIs, and executive summaries on system health


WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must Have:
  • 3+ years of SRE or Systems Engineering experience with strong technical expertise.
  • Experience with ServiceNow, ITSM processes including incident, problem, change, and release management.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive projects to completion.
  • Knowledge of containerized platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  • Experience working with Ansible Automation Platform or strong willingness to learn.
  • In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, Moogsoft, Catchpoint, and PagerDuty.
  • Knowledge and experience with scripting languages such as BASH, Python and PowerShell.
  • Experience with Linux and Windows Server administration.
  • Experience with or strong interest in intelligent monitoring, anomaly detection, and automation technologies
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Experience with API's and secure file transfer procedures.


Nice to Have:
  • Experience with telemetry standardization (OpenTelemetry) and observability data correlation.
  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts and their application to observability and operations (AIOps).
  • Experience with tools such as Ansible, Stonebranch, Kafka, and their role in system reliability.
  • Experience with CI/CD and developer platform tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and Vault.
  • Familiarity with Snowflake and MongoDB Atlas, including experience with writing and executing basic queries, validating data, and troubleshooting production issues.
  • Understanding of Single Sign-On(SSO) technologies, including Microsoft Entra ID, SAML and OAuth.
  • Experience supporting enterprise applications in banking or financial services industry with understanding of regulatory, security and compliance requirements.


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
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


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Job Skills
Critical Thinking, Customer Support Systems, Group Problem Solving, Installation Support, IT Service Level Management, IT Service Management (ITSM), IT Standards, Technical Troubleshooting

Additional Job Details

Address:

20 KING 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:

2026-07-23

Application Deadline:

2026-08-23
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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