Site Reliability Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Some of what you will do: The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of Staples Canada’s digital platforms. This role supports production systems, develops automation for operations, enhances observability, and partners with engineering teams to improve performance and stability. This role involves working with all the Engineering team as a resource for them on deployment and reliability best practice. Being able to work with both legacy and modern processes will be key for this role as well as being able to work in with both on premise and cloud technologies.
Specifically, You Will
- Improve system reliability through monitoring and alerting, including during high traffic seasons.
- Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines.
- Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortem processes.
- Maintain high‑availability Kubernetes and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Enhance logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for production systems.
- Support capacity planning, scaling, and performance tuning.
- Build automation to reduce manual operational tasks.
- Ensure operational readiness for new services and features.
Some Of What You Need
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science or equivalent working experience in software development.
- 2 years’ experience in IT development and operations is required with retail sector preferred however equivalent experience in other sectors within a software development context will also be considered
- Microsoft Azure certification in either Solution Architecture or DevOps
- Experience with build and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with web server administration (IIS, NGINX, Tomcat)
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Github Actions or Jenkins build automation systems
- Familiarity with software and infrastructure monitoring tools
- 5+ years of site reliability engineering related experience
- 2+ years with APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana etc.
- 2+ years of Kubernetes administration experience with both Linux and Windows containers.
- 2+ years of working with a public cloud (Microsoft Azure preferred, but AWS or GCP are acceptable)
- 3-5 years of software development life cycle experience.
- Effective process and procedure documentation management
- Business communication and analysis
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- English/French bilingualism desirable, but not mandatory
Some Of What You Will Get
- Associate discount
- Health and Dental benefits
- RRSP/DPSP
- Performance bonuses
- Learning & Development programs
- And more...
#Bringyourpassion
About Us Staples Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including those with disabilities.
About The Team About the Team At Staples Canada we are dynamic, inspiring partners to our customers and the communities in which we live. As The Working and Learning Company, we inspire people to work smarter, learn more and grow every day. We’re looking for curious, approachable, and passionate individuals who love finding solutions. If that’s you, let’s work, learn, and grow together.
We are building an inclusive and diverse team Staples Canada is continuously working towards creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. We welcome, value and thrive on perspectives and contributions from backgrounds that vary by race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About Staples Canada
We are the Working and Learning Company. We are building a community of exploration and discovery, a place where we can all work, learn and grow together. We are here to be a trusted ally, a resource and a sounding board, motivated to support our customers with expert knowledge, unique products and innovative services, made for the changing needs of today’s entrepreneurs, teachers, parents and students.
Founded in 1991, Staples Canada, The Working and Learning Company, is a privately-held company based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with a network of over 300 stores across Canada. To learn more, visit www.staples.ca or follow @StaplesCanada on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Site Reliability Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Some of what you will do: The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of Staples Canada’s digital platforms. This role supports production systems, develops automation for operations, enhances observability, and partners with engineering teams to improve performance and stability. This role involves working with all the Engineering team as a resource for them on deployment and reliability best practice. Being able to work with both legacy and modern processes will be key for this role as well as being able to work in with both on premise and cloud technologies.
Specifically, You Will
- Improve system reliability through monitoring and alerting, including during high traffic seasons.
- Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines.
- Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortem processes.
- Maintain high‑availability Kubernetes and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Enhance logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for production systems.
- Support capacity planning, scaling, and performance tuning.
- Build automation to reduce manual operational tasks.
- Ensure operational readiness for new services and features.
Some Of What You Need
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science or equivalent working experience in software development.
- 2 years’ experience in IT development and operations is required with retail sector preferred however equivalent experience in other sectors within a software development context will also be considered
- Microsoft Azure certification in either Solution Architecture or DevOps
- Experience with build and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with web server administration (IIS, NGINX, Tomcat)
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Github Actions or Jenkins build automation systems
- Familiarity with software and infrastructure monitoring tools
- 5+ years of site reliability engineering related experience
- 2+ years with APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana etc.
- 2+ years of Kubernetes administration experience with both Linux and Windows containers.
- 2+ years of working with a public cloud (Microsoft Azure preferred, but AWS or GCP are acceptable)
- 3-5 years of software development life cycle experience.
- Effective process and procedure documentation management
- Business communication and analysis
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- English/French bilingualism desirable, but not mandatory
Some Of What You Will Get
- Associate discount
- Health and Dental benefits
- RRSP/DPSP
- Performance bonuses
- Learning & Development programs
- And more...
#Bringyourpassion
About Us Staples Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including those with disabilities.
About The Team About the Team At Staples Canada we are dynamic, inspiring partners to our customers and the communities in which we live. As The Working and Learning Company, we inspire people to work smarter, learn more and grow every day. We’re looking for curious, approachable, and passionate individuals who love finding solutions. If that’s you, let’s work, learn, and grow together.
We are building an inclusive and diverse team Staples Canada is continuously working towards creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. We welcome, value and thrive on perspectives and contributions from backgrounds that vary by race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
About Staples Canada
We are the Working and Learning Company. We are building a community of exploration and discovery, a place where we can all work, learn and grow together. We are here to be a trusted ally, a resource and a sounding board, motivated to support our customers with expert knowledge, unique products and innovative services, made for the changing needs of today’s entrepreneurs, teachers, parents and students.
Founded in 1991, Staples Canada, The Working and Learning Company, is a privately-held company based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with a network of over 300 stores across Canada. To learn more, visit www.staples.ca or follow @StaplesCanada on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.