What is the opportunity? As an Application Support Engineer for our Quantitative Investment Services, you'll take ownership of the reliability and performance of mission-critical trading platforms. This is more than a support role-you'll drive operational excellence, influence system design, mentor team members, and grow your expertise in SRE practices and modern infrastructure. If you're ready to make a strategic impact in a collaborative, growth-focused environment, we'd love to meet you.
What Will You Do? Own the reliability of critical production systems, proactively monitoring and resolving issues across web servers, application servers, middleware, and trading platform infrastructure
Lead incident response and change management, coordinating cross-functional teams, conducting thorough root cause analysis, and implementing preventative measures that reduce future incidents
Drive operational excellence by championing SRE practices, automating repetitive workflows, and aligning technical initiatives with business priorities to improve system resilience
Provide technical leadership by collaborating with development, infrastructure, and L3 support teams to solve complex challenges, and mentoring junior engineers as the team grows
Manage and optimize application job scheduling, ensuring seamless execution of critical processes and supporting smooth deployments during project implementations
Influence system architecture by bringing frontline insights to design discussions, helping shape decisions around scalability, reliability, and user experience
Vibe the toil by utilizing tolls such as GitHub copilot, Claude and other AI tools to automate and build solutions to day to day problems.
What Do You Need to Succeed? Must Have 5-10 years of production support experience,
ideally in financial services, trading, or other high-availability environments
Strong SQL skills for querying, analyzing data, and troubleshooting application issues
Hands-on experience supporting applications running on LINUX or WINDOWS OS in both traditional and modern containerized environments (Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of VMs, cloud platforms, and infrastructure fundamentals
Working knowledge of microservices architectures and RESTful APIs
Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability tools: Dynatrace Managed, Catchpoint, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, ITRS, Splunk
Deep familiarity with incident and change management frameworks (ITIL or similar)
Comfortable participating in rotating 7x24 on-call support (with fair scheduling and team backup)
Nice-to-Have Hands-on experience applying SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems)
Background in asset management or CMDB processes.
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 adaptable benefits
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a agile, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies
Job Skills Agile Methodology
Application Infrastructure
Group Problem Solving
IT Automation
IT Monitoring
Kubernetes
Linux
Operations Support
Production Support
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Software Engineering
Software Product Technical Knowledge
Structured Query Language (SQL)
System Applications
Systems Software
Additional Job Details Address: ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Work hours/week: 37.5
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: CAPITAL MARKETS
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-07-24
Application Deadline: 2026-08-21
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities: At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 RBC
📍 Toronto