Location Address: Hybrid – Toronto – 1/week (day is flexible)
Contract Duration: May to Oct 31, 2025 – 6 months
Possibility of extension
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week – OT expected on a bimonthly basis – Dev will be on pager rotation and will work off-hours to support production issues
Reason: Backfill
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Mobile and Web – Digital Engineering Operations part of Digital Banking, supporting mobile and web development
Project: SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) work for Digital projects – working on online and mobile banking; back-end development; maintain reliability of applications and production support
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a diverse environment and make a difference and lasting impact. As part of a top 5 Canadian Bank, they will have an opportunity to be part of a group of talented people changing how the bank develops applications, consumes services, and manages the IT infrastructure. Opportunities to do challenging work in a mission critical system to the bank.
Typical Day in Role:
• Develop software following sound software engineering principles and lead investigations for production issues and come up with solutions that meet security standards defined by the organization
• Production support and handling escalation during the day as well as off-hours – expected to occasionally carry the pager outside of regular hours for production support
• Interface with infrastructure and application teams to maintain and support infrastructure and applications
• Lead root cause analysis to in-scope systems, identify improvements, and drive to implementation
• Develop operational plans, processes, and procedures to improve service delivery and resiliency
• Lead by example and mentor growing developers in the team
• Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles
• Tech stack: Java – version 8 or above
• Back-end development role – devops and SRE related responsibilities, focused on infrastructure maintenance and reliability tasks
• Flexible with technologies they work on based on tech changes happening at the Bank, should be flexible to work on other technologies and tasks as well (API related SDKs, enhancements, deployments, microservices)
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years in developing and supporting large, complex, highly available production applications
2) 4+ years of experience in Java programming – versions 8 or above
3) 4+ years in SRE and/or Dev-Ops role
4) 3+ years’ experience with any Cloud environment (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS – please list which)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience in incident management and production support
2) Experience in banking / financial services
Soft Skills Required:
• Good communication skills
• Quick learner
• Good problem solver
Education:
Bachelor’s – technical field preferred – or equivalent work experience
Google / GCP / Architect certifications an asset
Best VS. Average Candidate:
The ideal candidate is passionate about designing and developing complex, highly reliable and scalable enterprise systems. They have a keen interest in application monitoring, security, and maintenance with a strong developer-focused mindset and thrive in a fast-moving environment.
Requirement of experience in SRE and/or Dev-Ops role: ideally, they have had experience in both, with a stronger focus on SRE
Cloud experience requirement: GCP is preferred
Open to coaching others using their expertise, to step in a senior dev as needed.
Need to have the right attitude for production support where hours can vary so they should be willing to work in such an environment.
Candidate Review & Selection
1 round – MS Teams Video Panel Interview, with HM and other team members such as tech lead/senior dev – technical + behavioral questions – possible technical exercise /coding snippet during the interview – 3-4 coding questions in Java and DevOps related items – will be probing on if they are the right fit for production support and work required outside of regular hours – 2 hours
Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP – HM away April 11 to 21 but has backups in place to manage interviews