Site Reliability Engineer

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Recruitment & Strategic Staffing @Kyndryl | Partnering with IT Consultants in Financial Services & Technology

• Position: Site Reliability Engineer
• Client: Financial Services - Capital Markets Technology
• Duration: 12-month contract with potential extensions
• Location: Toronto, Canada - 2 to 3 days onsite per week
• Language: English
• Hours: 37.5 hours/week

Our client is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance the reliability, performance, and efficiency of mission‑critical batch workloads across Capital Markets Technology. The SRE will serve as a technical lead focused on automation, application development, systems performance engineering, and observability using Dynatrace. This position is pivotal in driving operational excellence and maturing reliability practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• Expert‑level Python skills, including performance tuning, concurrency (async/multiprocessing), testing, and packaging.
• Strong Linux systems engineering expertise (kernel tuning, networking, process management, filesystem optimization).
• Proven experience optimizing batch workloads for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Deep knowledge of Dynatrace for observability (dashboards, KPIs, tagging, alerts, anomaly detection).
• Hands‑on experience with Apache Airflow (DAG design, scheduler tuning, SLA management).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts — retries, idempotency, backpressure, data integrity.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent incident management, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Reliability & Performance: Engineer resilient and performant batch processing pipelines by reducing runtime and minimizing failures.
• Observability: Implement and maintain Dynatrace dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to ensure deep visibility into system health.
• Systems Engineering: Configure and tune Linux and Windows environments for optimal reliability and speed.
• Automation & Orchestration: Design and refine Airflow DAGs, automate deployments with CI/CD pipelines, and reduce operational toil through code.
• Incident Management: Lead incident response, conduct root‑cause analysis, and implement improvements based on post‑mortems and SLOs.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure all reliability and automation processes adhere to security best practices and regulatory compliance standards.

Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a full-time employment role with Kyndryl Canada.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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