Reliability engineer Jobs in Old toronto, ON

The System Reliability Engineer will be working in a cross functional technology team responsible for the bank's Customer data and will contribute to the overall success of the team ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

The incumbent should be a self-starter and be able to work independently with little or no supervision. They should have strong communication skills, a client focused mindset, and take accountability and ownership of tasks.

• Contributes to a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Drive reliability engineering strategy and platform standardization across teams.
• Introduce chaos engineering practices to test system resilience.
• Lead major incident management and stakeholder communication.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote SRE best practices.
• Ensure system reliability and uptime by designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
• Monitor production systems using observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk) to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Develop and maintain automation for deployment, scaling, and incident response using scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Manage incident response processes, including root cause analysis (RCA), postmortems, and continuous improvement of system resilience.
• Improve observability and logging standards to enhance troubleshooting and system insights.
• Experience coding in a professional environment, taking requirements from concept to production use.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate clearly and concisely with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, job failures, and provide support for production applications.
• Analyze and resolve incident tickets assigned to the group based on severity and priority and identify the root cause for resolution.
• Ensure incident and change management processes are executed as mandated, partnering with various internal teams.
• Provide Release Management support including post-release health checks and monitoring of applications and ensure timely communications to upstream and downstream teams.
• Develop, document and standardize plans and processes for preventive maintenance steps to ensure system stability and availability.
• Provide after-hours support via an on-call pager on a rotational basis for production incidents, application releases during a maintenance windows and other maintenance activities.
• Lead or support on-call rotations to maintain 24/7 service reliability and quick issue resolution.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

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