Jobs / National Bank of Canada

Chief Site Reliability Developer

National Bank of Canada · Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, CanadaContractExp: 10+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive compensation
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

The Chief Site Reliability Developer leads reliability engineering for critical wealth management platforms, improving their availability, resilience, scalability, and performance. The role guides architecture, automates deployment and recovery, develops observability capabilities, and leads incident analysis while supporting technical teams. The work involves AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, infrastructure as code, Datadog, Splunk, and software development with Java, Python, or Go.

Benefits

Health and wellness programFlexible group insurancePension planEmployee share ownership planEmployee and family assistance programPreferential banking servicesCommunity initiativesTelemedicine serviceVirtual sleep clinicPersonalized training programsLanguage trainingCoaching and mentoring

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and ten years of software engineering experience, or equivalent education and experience.
  • Significant experience in site reliability engineering, AWS, distributed systems, and large-scale platform operations.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, traceability, and operational intelligence solutions, including Datadog and Splunk.
  • Strong programming and software development knowledge in Java, Python, Go, or equivalent.
  • Experience in incident management, disaster recovery, operational risk management, and platform resilience.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve reliability engineering practices for critical services.
  • Guide architecture decisions to improve scalability, fault tolerance, and recoverability.
  • Automate deployments, operations, incident management, and recovery processes.
  • Develop observability, monitoring, logging, traceability, and operational intelligence capabilities.
  • Advise during major incidents, lead root cause analyses, and improve services and engineering practices.
  • Support technical teams through knowledge sharing, best practices, and expertise development.

Skills

AWSDatadogGoJavaKubernetesPythonSplunkDockerJenkinsTerraform

Degrees

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Languages

EnglishFrench

Work schedule

Flexible and adaptable schedule

Industry

BankingWealth management

Relocation

No