Site Reliability Principal Engineer

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Job description

SITE RELIABILITY PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY? As an SRE, you will utilize your software, systems engineering, and operations background to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. Your role is to ensure the reliability, scalability and maximum uptime of CNB systems in the Data Center or Cloud Platform.

What you will do

• Be a technical expert to architect solutions that helps to improve reliability of CNB's software platforms
• Participate in on-call support and work through all aspects of the Incident Management process, including orchestrating Blameless Post-mortems and encourage the practice within the organization
• Be a subject matter expert and partner with cross functional teams to develop and maintain technical documentation, network diagrams, runbooks, and procedures
• Design, build and manage SLIs, SLOs and Error budgets for Availability , Performance/Latency and Throughput for critical services running in production. Be a proponent of using the SRE core principles in driving product velocity
• Create educational documentation on how-to's and and blog about use-cases and architectures that relate to cloud platforms and Observability. Co-ordinate hackathons and code reviews with goals of continuous improvement in design , build and architectural practices
• Liaise with the team managing our public cloud environments, including setup, management, and troubleshooting
• Coach and mentor the junior team members to nurture team productivity and professional development
• Lead the management , forecasting and budgeting activities to ensure availability of sufficient funding and resourcing has been accounted
• Provide ongoing and timely feedback to the leadership for improvement of quality practices with client experience being at the paramount of all supporting activities
• All other appropriate duties as required.

Must-Have

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum 12 years of experience in an Operational role, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering
• Minimum 8 years of experience doing development in any of Java, NodeJS, .NET Core, Python
• Minimum 5 years of experience with development or administration on any cloud platforms (Cloud Foundry, Heroku, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Bluemix, Kubernetes, and others). (The ideal candidate has significant experience with Platform as a Service cloud such as Cloud Foundry)
• Minimum 5 years of experience developing applications with an active user base, and deploying to production and going through any change management process (Ideal candidate is able to engage in a detailed discussion about their change management process as well as its happy/pain points)"

Skills and Knowledge

• Minimum 2 years of Experience with log analytical and management solutions such as Splunk / Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace etc
• Creativity, energy, and passion for leveraging technology to transform our industry; the belief that automation is the only way
• A good understanding of modern, cloud centric architectures and DevOps principles
• Experience with the operational aspects of software systems such as monitoring, centralized logging, and alerting
• Providing standardized offerings to facilitate and ensure operational health of stacks throughout their lifecycle including metrics collection, aggregation, and visualization, inventory, capacity, and billing/tag management
• You are competitive and passionate. You thrive on challenge and have a proven ability to set ambitious but achievable goals and surpass them
• Demonstrate a team player attitude with a growth mindset to be open to learn and adapt the changing landscape of the industry

Compensation Starting base salary: $122,535 - $208,715 per year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This job is eligible for bonus and/or commissions.
To be considered for this position you must meet at least these basic qualifications
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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INCLUSION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT
City National Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.'

ABOUT CITY NATIONAL We start with a basic premise: Business is personal. Since day one we've always gone further than the competition to help our clients, colleagues and community flourish. City National Bank was founded in 1954 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and that legacy of integrity, community and unparalleled client relationships continues to drive phenomenal growth today. City National is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies.

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