Lead DevOps Engineer

Requisition ID: 215241

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

As a Lead DevOps/SRE Engineer, you would explore enterprise/industry technology patterns delivery frameworks and coach development teams in their full development, and deployment life cycle. You will also contribute to the success of the SRE/Resiliency team by implementing and enhancing the monitoring tools and best practises around incident managements. You will be coaching and leading various development teams with different technology stack within the wealth management department to improve their current DevOps implementation. In addition, you will also be working closely with enterprise DevOps technology service providers on solutions and Wealth Management team to drive a road map for DevOps technology within the department.

The main goal is to be able to learn the best practices on various technologies around DevOps life cycles and be able to coach and educate the teams to be self-sufficient in their domains. You will work closely with Enterprise technology providers and other service providers to keep an updated catalogue of the products in public cloud offering. Also, you will contribute to these products through pull requests and coding reviews to configure/improve these services for teams within the wealth department.

Is this role right for you? In this role you need:

• SRE/DevOps mindset
• Agile Software development experience Kanban or Scrum
• Growth Mindset: Committed to continuous learning and professional development
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Adept at identifying challenges and implementing effective solutions
• Innovative Mindset: Thrives in dynamic environment by introducing creative ideas and strategies

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

Software Engineering/SRE Concepts:

• Incident management familiarity
• SLA, SLO, and Dora metrics familiarity
• Cloud Computing Concepts
• Cloud Platform proficiency (Azure or GCP)
• Microservice Architecture
• CI/CD (Jenkins and AzureDevOps)
• Incident Management expertise
• Familiar with modern SDLC tool stack (Git based SCM, CI/CD, Artifact repository, Security Scans)
• On-prem/cloud Deployment protocols and patterns (Blue/Green, Canary)
• Public Cloud Automatic Orchestration of resources
• Application-level Security Concepts: SSL, keystore/trust store, certificate management
• Networking protocols and concepts
• Load balancing and high availability concepts
• Horizontal/Vertical scaling of resources

Proficiency in Monitoring tools

• Proactive monitoring
• Proficiency in Splunk querying and alerting
• Proficiency in Dynatrace monitoring and alerting

Proficiency in Containerization tools

• Dockerization of applications
• Kubernetes experience
• Helm Chart experience
• Familiarity with Argo CI/CD

Proficiency in Cloud Resource Provisioning

• Terraform Module experience
• Familiarity with one of the automatic configuration platforms (Puppet, Salt, Ansible)

Software Development tools

• Ability to automate tasks in at least one programming language (Java, Python, GO, Bash, etc.)
• Familiarity with JDK 8, JDK 11, and JVM configuration and project structure
• Familiarity with NodeJS and NPM configurations and project structure
• Maven
• Gradle (ability to write build task)
• Cloud hosted SQL databases (GCP or Azure)

Nice to have experience

• Software Engineering experience in financial institution
• Pega orchestration experience
• Software Lead experience

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.