Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of self-service platform capabilities, internal developer portals, golden paths, and automated provisioning workflows.
- Build intelligent AI-enabled automation for CI/CD optimization, anomaly detection, incident remediation, and delivery acceleration.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code frameworks and reusable platform abstractions across multiple environments.
- Design context engineering, prompt, tool-use orchestration, and context harness patterns for AI-assisted development workflows.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-powered developer tools and coding assistants into engineering platforms.
- Deploy and scale distributed workflow orchestration systems such as Camunda in multi-datacenter environments.
- Build platform observability capabilities covering metrics, logging, tracing, and AI-driven alerting.
- Create technical designs, facilitate architecture reviews, and align teams on platform standards and patterns.
- Embed security controls as code within pipelines and platform infrastructure.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship in platform engineering and AI-assisted development practices.
Requirements
- Require 8–10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles with progressive responsibility.
- Proficiency in at least one object-oriented language such as Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript, plus strong Bash scripting skills.
- Deep understanding of internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, golden paths, and platform engineering principles.
- Strong AI literacy covering context engineering, prompt engineering, context harnesses, MCP, function calling, and AI agent orchestration.
- Experience evaluating and integrating AI-powered developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or Devin.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Dynatrace, GitHub, Backstage or Port, Elastic, and Kibana.
- Deep expertise with GitHub Actions and GitOps approaches for CI/CD and platform automation.
- Advanced Kubernetes and OpenShift experience in enterprise-scale production environments.
- Experience with distributed systems architecture and workflow orchestration platforms such as Camunda.
- Extensive experience with Azure, AWS, OCP, Linux/Unix systems, and APIs.
- Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers, with strong communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include internal developer portal development, AI productivity tooling, progressive delivery, custom platform and CLI tooling, financial services technology experience, and CKA/CKAD, Red Hat OpenShift, or cloud certifications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards program with bonuses, flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
- Development support through coaching, training, and management opportunities.
- Flexible work/life balance options.
- Opportunity to make a lasting impact in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, high-performing team.
- World-class training program in financial services.
- Opportunities for challenging work, progressively greater accountabilities, and close client relationships.
- Full-time regular employment in Toronto, Canada, with 37.5 hours per week.
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About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact. http://rbc.com/legalstuff. La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social. https://www.rbc.com/conditions-dutilisation/