Senior Support SRE

Job Title: Senior Support SRE
Location: Toronto, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ months contract

 Note: Only T4

Job Description

The Senior Support SRE will be responsible for the supporting and spearheading the development, and implementation of Site Reliability Engineering solutions for all applications of large Canadian bank. This team will work collaboratively with teams across several lines of business and other Technology and Operations partners as a requirement to succeed in its mandate. This individual will need advanced knowledge and experience working in an application development, support and/or technology operations organization. They should be able to take on a production support role and part with the SRE team in Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking and/or Wealth Management

What will you do?

• Perform application production support role including off-hours support.
• Spearhead the development of SRE solutions (monitoring and alerting, machine learning anomaly detection, self-healing and reliability testing)
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
• Lead and assist in incident management and problem management for applications in scope
• 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.
• Ensure compliance of all systems and applications in scope, including maintaining segregation of duties
• 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
• Apply design-thinking and agile mindset in working with SREs, Scrum Masters and partner team leads
• Stay abreast of technology change and learn constantly, through official training assignments and self-assigned learning.

Must have

• Minimum 4+ years of related experience in Application support, Software development (SDLC, working knowledge of at least two of C/C++, Java, Golang, Python, .NET) and Operations (SRE, DevOps, Cloud, Data)
• 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