DevOps Engineering Lead

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

As a Devops Engineering Lead, provide direction and engineering support through the process of agile software development.

What will you do?

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure to support development and production environments.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and business stakeholders, to design and implement CI/CD pipelines that enable seamless and efficient delivery of software.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability of platforms and services.

• Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices, tools, and methodologies across the organization to foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Design and implement robust security practices, including vulnerability management, access control, and compliance with industry standards.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in DevOps, cloud computing, and platform engineering, and identify opportunities to incorporate them into the organization's infrastructure.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Haves

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or related fields, with a proven track record of delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions.

• Strong programming skills with at least 10+ years of hands-on experience in languages such as Java, TypeScript, Python, Shell scripting, or batch processing, and expertise in developing distributed cloud applications (OpenShift, Azure, Docker).

• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including a thorough understanding of its components (Deployments, Services, HPA, ConfigMaps, Secrets, etc.) and the ability to design and manage complex Kubernetes-based environments.

• Proficiency in DevOps pipelines and CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Maven, and experience with automated testing frameworks (unit, functional, and performance testing).

• Comprehensive knowledge of web-based application architectures and frameworks, including Angular or AngularJS, and how they integrate with backend services.

Nice-to-haves:

• Object Oriented coding practices, including strong design patterns knowledge, refactoring, clean code.

• Experience working with Kafka, MySQL, Non-relational databases, Caching

• Experience in BDD and TDD methodologies

• Working experience in one or more of: Algorithm design and optimization, AI tools, RDBMS and/or modern scale-out repositories (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis), Kafka.

What’s in it for you? 
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• A world-class training program in financial services

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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Job Skills

Business Process Improvements, Software Change Request Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Integration Engineering, Software Product Design, Software Product Technical Knowledge, Software Release Management, Systems Software, Team Management

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-03-05

Application Deadline:

2026-10-30

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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