Royal Bank of Canada

Site Reliability Engineer

Royal Bank of Canada • $90K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience with Operations Engineering platforms (SRE, DevOps, Cloud, Data) focusing on AI integration.
  • Advanced knowledge of SRE practices in a Financial Institution environment.
  • Experience with diverse systems including Linux, Windows, Databases, Cloud, and APIs.
  • Ability to automate tasks to reduce toil and enhance efficiency.
  • Hands-on expertise with SRE tools (e.g., Ansible, Dynatrace, Grafana) and languages.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in developing SRE solutions including monitoring and alerting.
  • Implement various reliability tests and anomaly detection for applications.
  • Support the adoption of automation solutions within the team.
  • Contribute to SRE best practices across collaborative teams.
  • Perform production support roles including shift work and on-call duties.
  • Assist in incident and problem management processes.
  • Maintain compliance and ensure application uptime as per service level agreements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including flexible benefits.
  • Continued opportunities for career advancement.
  • World-class training, coaching, and development.
  • Support from a collaborative and high-performing team.
  • Opportunity for career growth within RBC.
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The SRE will be responsible for assisting in the development, implementation and support of Site Reliability Engineering solutions for all applications across a line of business within CNB (City National Bank), an RBC company. This team will work collaboratively with teams across several LoBs and other T&O partners as a requirement to succeed in its mandate. The incumbent will need advanced knowledge and experience working in an application SRE development and technology operations organization. They should be able to take on a production support role and part with the SRE Innovation team in incident and problem management.

What will you do?

Engineering:
  • Assist in development of SRE solutions (monitoring and alerting, machine learning anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing)
  • Implement monitoring and alerting, anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing for applications in scope
  • Supports unit's goals to adopt automation solutions for applications in scope
  • Contribute to and leverage SRE best practices
  • Apply design-thinking and agile mindset in working with SREs, Scrum Masters and partner team leads


Production Support:
  • Perform production support role on a shift-based work schedule, including off-hours support and rotational on-call support
  • Assist in incident management and problem management for applications in scope
  • Evaluate continuously - what went well, what went wrong, what can be done to improve and prevent in future
  • Maintain technology currency (perform server patching, certificate renewal, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities
  • Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives
  • Ensure compliance of all systems and applications in scope, including maintaining segregation of duties


Innovation and Learning:
  • Stay abreast of technology change and learn constantly, through official training assignments and self-assigned learning
  • Provide demos to team about new technology findings


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:
  • Typically requires 2+ years of related experience in Operations Engineering platforms (SRE, DevOps, Cloud, Data) with a keen focus on AI integration to reduce toil
  • Advanced knowledge of industry practice (Financial Institution) with a focus on SRE.
  • Advanced experience in a variety of environments (Linux, Windows, Databases, Cloud, distributed and mainframe, business workflows, and Services/APIs).
  • Able to automate simple tasks to reduce the toil, and increase operating system efficiency.
  • Hands-on experience in a variety of SRE languages and tools (Ansible, Dynatrace, Moogsoft, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana, Blue Prism, Catch Point, Grafana)
  • Effective negotiation skills, and stakeholder management.
  • Excellent communication skills, direct style.
  • Consumer banking experience.


Nice-to-have:
  • Experience working as an SRE within the Financial Trading Industry.
  • Experience with AI tools and integrating AI agent to remove toil.


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including competitive compensation, bonuses, and flexible benefits.
  • Continued opportunities for career advancement.
  • World-class sales training, coaching, and development opportunities.
  • Support from a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high performing team, as well as world-class tools and training.
  • Opportunity to achieve great success and grow your career with RBC.


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Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Application Infrastructure, Group Problem Solving, IT Automation, IT Monitoring, Operations Support, Production Support, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Product Technical Knowledge, System Applications, Systems Software

Additional Job Details

Address:

745 THURLOW ST:VANCOUVER

City:

Vancouver

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-09-28

Application Deadline:

2026-10-22
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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.

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