Director, Cloud Engineering/Virtualization bei RBC

What is the Opportunity?

You will join Hybrid Cloud & Intelligent Operations group as Director, Cloud Engineering/Virtualization in Tech Infrastructure’s Hosting Engineering team part of Hybrid Cloud & Intelligent Operations.

At any given time, you will be working on multiple technologies across the spectrum of Compute, Storage, Network, Security, Devops, Cloud, Containers etc., and in this role you will have the opportunity to work on multiple cutting edge products, understand them and then work with other TI & T&O teams who will implement the technologies in production. You will also have the opportunity to work with a variety of start-ups / VC’s and interface with founders, CTO’s, head of product management, R&D, Engineering etc., at some very innovative companies, and evaluate their products for applicability at RBC. You will also get the opportunity to partner with other innovation labs (internal or external) to prove out new technologies. 

The Hosting Engineering team is responsible for setting technical strategy, Research and Development, Engineering and creating a vision and roadmap for TI. We identify emerging and disruptive technology trends in Opensource, Academia and the industry and access, recommend and implement them if it can provide a technological edge to the RBC business. 

The ideal candidate will have a sharp business mind, understand user needs and align them with the products that are being created. Ultimately, you are motivated to build, automate and support large scale Virtualization/Windows/Linux based infrastructure systems

What will you do?

• Be a subject matter expert on VMware and other virtualization technologies

• Design, build, automate and implement Enterprise Virtualization technologies

• Automate Virtualization/OS lifecycle using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, GITHub, and Terraform etc.

• Work with Kubernetes, OpenShift and its associated ecosystem of 3rd party products

• Evaluate and certify new version of Virtualization technologies, provide upgrade/migration path

• Provide technical leadership and technical guidance on Virtualization/windows and Linux systems

• Participate in internal workshops and provide presentations of the proposed solution.

• Be a technical liaison between app-dev team and operation teams

• Provide guidance on Linux/Unix security

• Perform profiling and troubleshooting of existing solutions

• Create technical documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer

Innovation

• Own and validate blueprints and design artifacts which correlate to RBC Hosting  platforms

• Partner with Architecture and validate solution architecture 

• Define solution design and services

Improvement

• Design, build, and transition activities; own platform or service definition

• Validate design artifacts, own portions of enterprise strategy via validation and research exercises

• Deliver releases, self-organize and self-motivate to achieve directed outcomes

• Own platform specification and design

• Deliver specifications for solutions and services artifacts

• Guide major enhancements of offerings by working closely with Application and Operations teams.

Planning and Assessment

• Prioritize, drive, and validate strategies and roadmaps for Virtualization/windows/Linux platform; produce presentation material suitable for Senior Director or VP level consumption

• Author solutions and services artifacts and initiate ideation, strategy, and future design.

• Own and drive outcomes from ideation process

• Key contributor on the support, integration, and Engineering / design activities of 75% of the Engineering Work Portfolio for Virtualization/windows/Linux platform

• Learn and adopt new flavor of Virtualization/windows/Linux; research, survey, and present industry trends to the team.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have

• 5-10 years of enterprise industry experience working in Engineering or Research in the Infrastructure space.

• Very strong Virtualization/windows/Linux/Cloud Skills, especially on VMware, RedHat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft windows Servers

• Strong knowledge of Ansible and should have ability to automate entire Infrastructure stack using playbooks, Jenkins and Terraform

• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl)

• Hands-on experience with GIT and/or GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket products

• Experience in technologies such as OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes and Hadoop

• Skills in distributed systems, resource management solutions, storage technologies, software-defined networking, enterprise logging and monitoring solutions

• Deep understanding of network switch, routing, firewall

• Strong knowledge on different storage type like SAN, ISCSI, NFS

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Bachelor's or graduate degree, preferably in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

• Broad knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies

• Experience with performance tuning and optimization, bottleneck problems analysis

• Disaster Recovery with proper RTO/RPO.

Nice to have

• Knowledge on Database like Oracle RAC, Postgres

• Knowledge on software defined storage

• Familiarity or experience with high performance computing

• Hands on experience on other flavor of Linux like Ubuntu, Debian

• Experience with Open Source technologies and business models

• Prior experience with the agile development process

• Familiarity with Jira or similar tool

• Previous experience doing application migrations from traditional to cloud native.

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

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities 

• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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