- Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid once per week (Wednesdays), every third Friday of the month
- Pay Rate: $68.91/hr - $79.65/hr
- Contract Length: 6 Months
We at Raise are hiring a
IT - Application Support Analyst - Senior for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work
Responsibilities
- As a member of CIBC’s Application Reliability Engineering Platform team, the Consultant, Site Reliability Engineering will play a key role in CIBC Digital and Client Experience Technology to support the Banking Centre Line of Business ensuring the seamless operation and ongoing improvement of application platforms across the organization. You will work closely with cross-functional teams providing technical expertise to resolve application and infrastructure technology issues on medium to highly complex projects in compliance with service standards, policies, and procedures.
- At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. To successfully perform the work, you’ll be on-site full-time. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.
How You'll Succeed
- Technical Expertise- Manage and optimize automated application deployments across multiple environments, ensuring consistency and reliability. Monitor system health, performance metrics, and alerts to proactively identify and resolve issues before client impact. Participate in, and as required, lead incident response and post-mortem analysis to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
- Partnership - Continuously evaluate and improve systems, processes, and tools to enhance reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Define and maintain observability strategies to ensure visibility into application behaviors and performance. Participate in the on-call rotation for application support, responding to incidents and resolving technical issues. Balance feature development speed and system reliability by adhering to well-defined service level objectives (SLOs). Support AIOps initiatives to reduce manual intervention and improve operational intelligence through automation.
- Continuous Improvement- Contribute to the development and execution of observability and telemetry strategies. Provide input to best practices, standards, and documentation for site reliability engineering (SRE) methodologies and technologies. Participate in defining standard reliability and resilience requirements for infrastructure and application components. Act as a point of escalation for production application issues, providing advanced troubleshooting and resolution.
Who You Are
- You can demonstrate 5-10 years of experience. In site reliability engineering, application support, or DevOps roles, with a strong focus on application lifecycle automation and operational excellence. Demonstrated expertise in automating application deployments, incident response workflows, and operational tasks using scripting and orchestration techniques. Solid understanding of AIOps principles and hands-on experience applying automation and machine learning to improve observability, anomaly detection, and incident resolution. Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript) for building automation related to application monitoring, deployment, and recovery. Familiarity with application security best practices, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure coding principles. Experience working with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitHub), with a focus on application delivery and release automation. Working knowledge of observability strategies, including telemetry, logging, tracing, and alerting, to maintain application health and performance. Understanding of networking fundamentals as they relate to application performance and reliability. Experience with pipeline-integrated security scanning and compliance tools to support secure application delivery.
- You put our clients first. You engage with the purpose of finding the right solutions. You go the extra mile, because it's the right thing to do.
- You’re goal oriented. You’re motivated by accomplishing your goals and delivering your best to make a difference.
- You're passionate about people. You find meaning in relationships and surround yourself with a diverse network of partners. You connect with others through respect and authenticity.
- You love to learn. You're passionate about growing your knowledge. You have a strong sense of curiosity.
- You’re a certified professional. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Technical discipline.
- Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.
Must-Have Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux
- WebLogic / JBoss
- OpenShift
- DevOps methodologies
- Jenkins / DevSecOps
- Azure experience
- Monitoring tools: Splunk and Dynatrace
- Ticketing/incident management: ServiceNow and Jira
Nice-to-Have
- Python/ PowerShell/JavaScript
- Banking or CIBC experience is not a deal breaker.
- A Computer Science degree is not mandatory. Candidates with a degree/diploma in a technical discipline, equivalent relevant experience, and/or relevant certifications can be considered.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
Looking for meaningful work? We can help!
Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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