Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued - as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong.

As a Staff SRE you'll be a leader both in your team and across other SRE teams, responsible for bringing high standards and raising the bar in our engineering designs and execution. You'll combine software engineering and systems engineering principles to influence product and infrastructure roadmaps. You'll also run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health. You will build tools and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications; improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of cloud-native solutions; and measure and optimize system performance - all with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve

What You’ll Do:

SRE is a shared service team across all Loblaw business lines. We operate in a POD structure which are focussed on business lines in order to allow for product and development teams to have familiarity and consistency. Each SRE POD has 3-4 people (consistently) and another 3-4 SRE's which get added to the POD based on initiatives which the POD is owning.

What You Bring:

• Experience in software engineering, reliability engineering, or systems engineering.
• Ability to write code in at least one language; comfortable implementing both functionality and tests and performing code reviews.
• Passion for Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, cloud provisioning, automation, and developing solutions that help developers move quickly and safely.
• You are an awesome problem solver, and willing to roll up your sleeves to take on any issue thrown your way.
• You are highly responsive, have a customer-first mindset, able to prioritize and track multiple projects in parallel.
• Hands on experience with PaaS solutions such as Anthos, GKE, OpenShift, or similar
• Highly collaborative with effective written and verbal communication skills.
• We at Loblaw are embracing 'Dev Run' mindset and that requires everyone in our teams to be on call including developers and SRE's

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars - Environment, Sourcing and Community - and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values - Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence - guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits - these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.