Site Reliability Consultant

Site Reliability Consultant

Job Description

Canada Life is looking for a Consulting Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). You’re a seasoned technologist who loves to solve hard problems. You’re excited about helping build more reliable, stable and high performing systems while taking a leadership role in defining what the SRE practice at Canada Life looks like. You will work closely with application teams ensuring business services are continuously engineered and monitored to ensure they’re highly available and meet the expectations of staff and our customers.
 

What you will do 

• Proactively identify areas of improvement across infrastructure and business services
• Inject reliability thinking into new sites at the design stage
• Collaborate with internal teams contributing ideas for reliability standards, best practices, and methodologies
• Construct and present root cause analysis to share with the broader organization
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve application resiliency
• Act as an SRE mentor and advocate by demonstrating the value of the SRE practice
• Advocate for and lead expanded instrumentation of application ecosystems to provide proactive alerting
• Highlight “engineering or architecture drift” that might impact stability and resiliency

What you will bring 

• Intense dislike of doing things manually
• Strong sense of accountability and desire to build quality solutions
• Expert troubleshooting skills and ability to solve complex problems
• Broad understanding of technology platforms – on-prem or cloud, modern operating systems, software development, system performance fundamentals and networks
• Passion for observability and continuously learning new technologies
• Understanding of modern monitoring practices and tools
• Desire to stay on top of technology growth, learn new skills, and advocate for instrumentation across business units
• Value communication and empathy as much as technical prowess
• Adept at leading and/or collaborating with ad-hoc teams
• Ability to design and monitor (incident logging) instrumentation for service level dashboarding and alerts

Desired Qualifications

• Degree/diploma in computer science, engineering, or equivalent work experience
• SRE related certifications
• Over 5 years of relevant experience 

Be your best at Canada Life- Apply today!

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing. 

We are one of Canada's top 100 employers!

Canada Life serves?the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.? 

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee?has the opportunity to?reach their potential.? 

Canada Life?would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted? 


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