Senior Platform Engineer

Requisition ID: 252912

Salary Range:-

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

Global Banking and Markets

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabanks strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing mergers & acquisitions corporate banking institutional equity sales trading and research fixed income products derivatives energy foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.

Be part of an innovative Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

Purpose:

The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for the building tuning managing infrastructure DevOps Platform site reliability monitoring troubleshooting enhancing enabling new features on Data & AI platform(s) as per banks Data & AI strategy. This consists of working with cross functional teams like IAM Network Cloud Ops Security Client partners etc for integration process automation platform enhancement and delivery of new projects.

What Youll Do

Guidance and Direction: Provide clear direction to the team set goals and keep the team accountable for their deliverables. Align team goals with the overall direction of the Azure & Databricks Platform roadmap and enterprise standards.
Technical Oversight: Own the technical direction across Azure and Databricks: Azure networking and security architecture (VNets Private Endpoints NSGs route tables Azure Firewall) Azure Identity & Access Management (RBAC PIM) and Databricks platform governance (Unity Catalog workspace configuration cluster policies). Ensure best practices for reliability cost and security are consistently applied.
Quality Assurance: Ensure a high quality of support delivery for platform users; adhere to platform SLAs/SLOs and service objectives
Process Improvements: Continually improve platform processes and SOPs for efficiency and automation. Design and develop reusable Terraform modules for Azure native resources and Databricks (clusters SQL warehouses Unity Catalog objects) enabling consistent scalable and automated deployments via Terraform Cloud/Enterprise and CI/CD.
Customer Relations: Build strong relationships with data engineers analysts and platform users. Communicate proactively with stakeholders and cross functional teams (Platform Security Cloud Ops Networking Data Governance) to align priorities manage expectations and drive adoption of platform standards.
Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues across Databricks jobs clusters SQL warehouses and Azure dependencies. Implement Azure Monitor and Log Analytics based observability with custom dashboards for cluster/job health driver/executor metrics and cost insights. Establish proactive alerting and early issue detection via logs/metrics for Databricks and Azure services.
Site Reliability: Analyze triage and resolve platform issues promptly to achieve SLOs and platform reliability objectives. Drive error budget aware practices post incident reviews and resilience engineering (e.g. autoscaling retry/backoff strategies policy guardrails).
Incident Management: Provide support during major incidents including after hours support. Lead incident response communications to users and stakeholders and root cause analysis with clear action items and follow through.
Observability Tools Development: Design build and deploy logging/monitoring solutions for early detection and actionable insights. Standardize ingestion to Log Analytics from Databricks (audit logs cluster events job runs) and key Azure resources; built dashboards and alert rules to reduce MTTR.
Release Control Management: Maintain and enhance the Infrastructure & Platform release pipeline using Terraform Terraform Cloud Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions with source control in GitHub/Bitbucket and artifact promotion via ACR/Artifacts. Enforce approvals change windows and automated checks to ensure safe repeatable releases.
Client Pipeline Management: Implement CI/CD for infrastructure and analytics workloads using Terraform Docker Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions and Artifact/Container Terraform plan/apply Databricks Bundle releases policy validation and security scanning to streamline delivery and ensure compliance.
Credential Security: Set up Azure Key Vault and HashiCorp Vault for secret management; integrate with Databricks secret scopes and workload identities. Enforce least privilege access via Azure RBAC and rotate credentials per policy.
Vendor and Technical Support Interaction: Partner with Microsoft and Databricks support and product teams to fine tune and troubleshoot components plan upgrades and adopt new capabilities aligned to roadmap and enterprise controls.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers in best practices for building deploying testing and supporting services on Azure and Databricks. Promote a culture of automation documentation and continuous learning.

What Youll Bring

15 years of IT experience in big organizations operating in various geographies/regulations.
5 years of hands on experience with Microsoft Azure (networking security identity storage compute PaaS).
5 years with Databricks on Azure (workspaces jobs/workflows clusters/SQL warehouses Unity Catalog governance).
5 years using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform modules Terraform Cloud/Enterprise; working knowledge of ARM/Bicep a plus).
5 years with CI/CD (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions) including automated testing security scanning and policy gates.
5 years with development/scripting languages (Python Go optional; plus Bash/PowerShell) for automation and platform tooling.
5 years with container technologies (Docker orchestration on AKS or containerized jobs on Databricks/Functions).
Strong understanding of Azure networking (VNets subnets Private Endpoints NSGs UDRs Azure Firewall) RBAC/PIM and zero trust principles.
In depth knowledge of databases and data platforms: Azure SQL Cosmos DB Databricks Lakehouse (Delta Lake SQL Warehouses) and data integration patterns (Event Hubs ADLS Gen2).
Comprehensive understanding of SDLC and GitOps (branching environments code review release promotion).
Experience with config management and automation (Ansible Bash/PowerShell) and governance via cluster policies and IaC standards.
Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Mathematics Management or related field.

Interested

If your experience is closely related but doesnt align perfectly with every qualification we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!

At Scotiabank every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential respected for who they are and embraced for their differences. Thats why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

Whats in it for you

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work and life every day. With a focus on holistic well-being our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family financial physical mental and social health needs.

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Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas

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.

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