Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Royal Bank of Canada Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Financial Services · 10,001+ employees

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sre Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time Canada
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About the role

The Senior SRE will monitor system performance, manage incidents, and automate operational tasks to ensure enterprise system reliability. They will collaborate with development teams to design for observability and provide subject matter expertise for production support.

What they look for

Site Reliability Engineering Dynatrace Catchpoint PagerDuty Python SQL JavaScript HTML CSS ServiceNow Incident management Automation Monitoring System performance Infrastructure management Production support

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 2 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or technical analysis roles with proficiency in monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Catchpoint. Strong skills in incident response, scripting languages, and infrastructure management are required to maintain application uptime.

Benefits

Bonuses Flexible benefits Competitive compensation Stock options Training program

Full description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As the Senior SRE, you will play a key role in supporting Monitoring systems used across RBC.  You will monitor system performance using Dynatrace and Catchpoint, manage incidents through PagerDuty, automate operational tasks, investigate outages, and drive continuous improvements to ensure RBC's enterprise systems meet business reliability needs.

What will you do?

  • Provide subject matter expertise to RBC application teams
  • Perform application production support including off-hours support, utilizing Pagerduty for incident alerting and coordination
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are designed for reliability, observability, and operational excellence
  • Develop SRE solutions including monitoring and alerting via Dynatrace and Catchpoint, anomaly detection
  • Provide reactive and proactive alarms to support teams
  • Run the production environment by monitoring availability through Dynatrace and Catchpoint, taking a holistic view of system health
  • Assist in incident management and problem management for applications in scope, leveraging Pagerduty workflows
  • Maintain technology currency (manage server patching, certificate renewal, etc.) with keen eye on automating opportunities
  • Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope, as per service level objectives
  • Diagnose and resolving technical issues for users, providing guidance and training as needed. 

 

What do you need to succeed?

  • 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Technical Analysis roles. Must be well vested in monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing application workflow
  • High proficiency with Dynatrace and Catchpoint for application monitoring and synthetic monitoring.
  • Experience with Pagerduty for incident alerting and on-call management, or similar
  • Strong production support and incident response experience, including off-hours availability
  • Knowledge of scripting languages and tools, including Python, GitHub, SQL, JavaScript, and web-related technologies such as HTML and CSS
  • Experience developing and maintain automation tools and scripts to streamline deployment, monitoring, and incident response
  • Proficiency with ServiceNow for creating, managing, and closing incident and change tickets
  • Understanding of service level objectives (SLOs) and ability to ensure application availability and uptime.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure management (server patching, certificate renewal, compliance).

 

Nice to have:

  • Knowledge of Microsoft and Linux/Unix Operating systems would be a strong asse
  • Ability to build automation and self-healing capabilities that improve system reliability
  • Previous banking/ large enterprise experience

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

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Job Skills

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Customer Service, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Hardware Infrastructure, Interpersonal Relationships, IT Systems Management, Long Term Planning, Service Request Management

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOCity:

TorontoCountry:

CanadaWork hours/week:

37.5Employment Type:

Full timePlatform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:

RegularPay Type:

SalariedPosted Date:

2026-10-16Application Deadline:

2026-10-30Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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