Associate Director, DevOps Engineering Lead (Bedford, NS)

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What is the opportunity?

We are looking for an Associate Director, DevOps Engineering lead to oversee the technical delivery of our DevOps services for use by our Capital Markets (Trading) Developers and business. The Engineering lead will oversee the modernization of DevOps Services for Capital Markets, aligning with the broader RBC DevOps Enterprise teams and strategy.

The Engineering lead must also work closely with our application developers and stakeholders to improve the developer experience. A key emerging area of focus is also ‘Re-Use’ and ‘Inner Source’ and the engineer lead must help drive and promote this.

The Engineering lead will be part of the CM DevOps management team, reporting to the head of CM DevOps, collaborating closely with our DevOps support and architecture leads. The Engineering lead will directly manage a team of talented engineers.

We are looking for open minded individual who is not afraid to fail fast and pivot when needed, and who enjoys working in a fast pace front-office environment. An individual who seeks out gaps and challenges to drive efficiency, as well as staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies used in the industry.

What will you do?

• Engineering lead for Capital Markets (CM) DevOps services; collaborate closely with Enterprise DevOps teams to build and support best in class DevOps services
• Champion DevOps adoption and ensure best practice are followed by CM application development teams; align product roadmap to strategic goals
• Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers; work with development teams to analyze their needs and incorporate these into product roadmap
• Solve product related problems and make decisions to stay on track towards deliverable commitments
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and as the primary contact for queries related to DevOps products and the roadmap
• Drive the use of KPIs and metrics in order to understand the usage and performance of our services; strive for continuous improvements of our platform and process, controls and capabilities. Champion use of automation to improve DevOps service efficiency
• Collaborate with Enterprise DevOps, IT Risk, Info-sec, senior management and the CM community
• Implement proactive controls and effectively manage risk in compliance with RBC policies. Help manage DevOps audits. Help design policies and standards; build DevOps knowledgebase and documentation
  

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Experience with DevOps services e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy
• An engineer mindset with production delivery, strong analytical approach, communication skills, and sense of ownership / drive
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with DevOps pipelines
• Knowledge of development methodologies that utilize our DevOps services
• Experience with Agile i.e. Scrum or SAFe
  

Nice-to-have

• Experience with a public cloud technology, i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP
• Knowledge of the building or supporting of distributed applications
• Knowledge of compiled languages, i.e. Java, C#, C/C++
  

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.

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team at a world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to build close relationships with key stakeholders
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies via internal mobility
  

About RBC

Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We have over 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries. For more information, please visit rbc.com

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

RBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.

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Job Summary

City: Bedford

Address: 120 Western Parkway, Bedford

Work Hours/Week: 37.5

Work Environment: Office

Employment Type: Permanent

Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional

Pay Type: Salary + Variable Bonus

Required Travel (%): 0-25

Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A

People Manager: No

Application Deadline: 10/15/2021

Platform: Capital Markets

Req ID: 397324