Lead Platform Engineer
City : TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
Category : Technology | Analytics | Research
Industry : Financial/Banking
Employer : RBC
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At RBC, our culture is deeply supportive and rich in opportunity and reward. You will help our clients thrive and our communities prosper, empowered by a spirit of shared purpose.
Whether you’re helping clients find new opportunities, developing new technology, or providing expert advice to internal partners, you will be doing work that matters in the world, in an environment built on teamwork, service, responsibility, diversity, and integrity.
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What is the opportunity?
The platform engineering team believes in automating everything, making data-driven decisions, minimizing friction for platform adoption and most of all embracing change. We believe in collaboration, collective ownership and continuous improvement. Our team is supporting multiple large scale initiatives across the business from personal and commercial banking, investor and treasury, wealth management and insurance.
As a platform engineer you will be responsible to build out various big data platforms using Cloud, Hadoop and Container based technologies for real-time stream, batch processing and analytics. This role will take on challenges of scaling out systems for performance and multi-tenancy across all dimensions using cutting-edge technology.
What will you do?
Work on large scale clusters on premise and in the Cloud
Scale out clusters and services to many use cases and hundreds of applications
Design and build resilient and highly available multi-tenant solutions
Deploy and test out new technologies such as Kubernetes, Ozone, CDP Experiences
Desire to grow and learn Cloud based big data technologies
Automate and secure everything
Embrace change
What you need to succeed?
Must have
Bachelor's degree majoring in Computer Science, or related fields, or at least 5 years of related work experience
Experience with distributed systems, designing and building for resiliency and performance
Experience with building platforms on AWS and/or Azure cloud
Experience with container-based platforms
Automation via REST APIs
Automation via Python programming
Experience with Linux administration (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu)
Experience with Ansible, Git and general CI/CD tools and processes
Experience with network administration
Experience with system and network security best practices.
Open mind, a desire to learn and to be challenged
Sound judgement
Nice to have
Experience with Spark, Hadoop and Kafka
Experience with tools like HBase, MongoDB and Presto
Experience with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
Experience with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
Experience providing technical leadership to internal and external teams
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
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services
Opportunities to do challenging work
Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
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