Requisition ID: 247905

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses.

The Role

GBME is searching for a Senior Devops Engineer to liaison between business stakeholders and internal engineering and architect teams, ensuring solutions are developed and delivered on time, efficiently and with high quality for various projects within GBME.

The successful candidate will have a results-oriented and curious mindset with strong technical skills. You will work closely with cross functional teams, including engineers, solutions architects, and business teams to develop and implement market leading solutions that are scalable and deliver excellence, and value to our business partners and customers.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• partner with peer engineers and various GBME teams for maintaining and upgrading software components.
• Work closely with system owners to understand requirements from end of life, compliance standpoint, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed
• Be involved in remediating code vulnerabilities (code or library reference), responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications, writing production quality code, and implementation.
• Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non-functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing
• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed).
• Participate in daily stand-ups

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

• Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Ensure business specifications/requirements documentation is accurately prepared and comprehensive to support sizing/development efforts and as input to various project documentation.
• Develop and deliver Business Requirements Documents, Design Documents, Use Cases, and Process Models as required.
• Participate in the development of detailed project plans, the monitoring of progress against planned objectives, the financial review, and securing consensus and co-operation from users and senior management.
• Work closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridge the gap between business and technology sides of the solution.
• Liaising between the business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions that meet user needs.
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
• Support production issues and handle escalations during Release cycles as needed.
• Perform ad hoc work as needed

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

• 4+ years experience and product business knowledge in capital markets. (Must have skill)
• Minimum 4 years’ working knowledge of databases such as SQL Server, with ability to create and run queries independently. Oracle database knowledge is preferred.
• Skills in automating IT tasks like configuration management, app deployment, and orchestration using Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules to streamline operations, reduce manual work, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines
• Scripting languages like Bash, Shell are crucial for writing automation scripts for system administration tasks.
• Understanding of Linux fundamentals, including file systems, permissions, package management, and command-line utilities. Proficiency in Linux helps in managing server environments efficiently.
• Infrastructure management involves provisioning, configuring, and maintaining servers and networking components. Experience in Tools like Ansible, Puppet for automating infrastructure management tasks.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver working results.
• Must be proficient in programming languages like Python or Java to automate tasks and create tools to streamline development and deployment.
• Proficient in user management, software installation, and system monitoring.
• Proficient in using Git to track changes, merge code, and manage code repositories effectively.
• Knowledge of Big Data structures (Kafka) is strongly preferred.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.