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Associate Director, Kubernetes Platform Engineer

RBC1 day ago
Bedford, NS
Senior Level
Full-Time

Top Benefits

Total Rewards Program with bonuses, flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, stock
Flexible work/life balance options

About the role

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Provides advanced support for technology operations. Applies extensive, in-depth knowledge, skills, and practices to perform complex assignments.

What will you do?

  • Maintains hardware, software, and configurations; manages migrations, OS builds, tool installation, and removal of end-of-life hardware.
  • Coordinates production environment changes with technology operations in order to maintain a stable production environment.
  • Works closely with development to test various lab benchmarks for the purpose of determining the best technology combinations.
  • Develops relationships with business partners and establishes direct channels with critical, back-end vendor support personnel.

What do you need to succeed?

  • The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure and cluster lifecycle management. Core requirements include hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing production Kubernetes clusters in on-premises data center environments, with strong knowledge of bare-metal provisioning, networking, and storage considerations.

  • Experience with Cluster API (CAPI) for declarative cluster management and automation is highly desirable, enabling infrastructure-as-code approaches to cluster provisioning and upgrades across multiple environments.

  • The role requires proficiency in container orchestration fundamentals including Docker and containers, along with expertise in on-premises networking solutions such as Calico, Cilium, or Flannel for pod networking and network policy enforcement.

  • Candidates should demonstrate experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD, with strong infrastructure-as-code skills using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize. Knowledge of on-premises storage solutions including Ceph, Portworx, or OpenEBS for persistent volume management is important, along with expertise in monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and distributed tracing tools.

  • Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go are essential for operational efficiency. Experience with load balancing solutions like MetalLB or HAProxy for bare-metal environments, along with security best practices including RBAC, pod security policies, secrets management with tools like HashiCorp Vault, and certificate management, completes the technical profile.

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
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

Job Skills

Critical Thinking, Disruptive Innovations, Emerging Technologies, Group Problem Solving, IT Systems Integration, Operating Systems (OS), Product Development Design, Software Integration Engineering, System Applications, Teamwork

Additional Job Details

Address:

90 WESTERN PKY:BEDFORD

City:

Bedford

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-03-23

Application Deadline:

2026-03-25

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.

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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.

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