Site Reliability Engineer at Staples

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

25 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering, Automation, Monitoring, Kubernetes, Cloud Technologies, Incident Response, Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, DevOps, Azure, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, APM Tools, Web Server Administration, Software Development

Industry

Retail

Description

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 #LI-Hybrid

Responsibilities

The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability and operational excellence of Staples Canada’s digital platforms. This includes supporting production systems, developing automation, enhancing observability, and collaborating with engineering teams.