Principal, Infrastructure Automation Engineering

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Contributes to the overall success of Global Technology Services in Canada by providing principal-level technical leadership in enterprise automation engineering. Accountable for designing, building, and evolving secure, scalable automation capabilities across hybrid environments, applying strong software engineering discipline and platform-thinking to enable consistent, reliable outcomes across the organization. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in automation and software engineering roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Deep experience with configuration management and orchestration tools, with strong emphasis on Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventory patterns, reusable content, and execution strategies).
• Strong programming background in Python, including API integration and development of automation tooling/services.
• Experience applying CI/CD practices to automation code using Git-based workflows and pipeline tooling (e.g., build, test, promote, release).
• Demonstrated experience designing automation solutions that operate across hybrid environments (on-premises and public cloud).
• Strong understanding of enterprise security, risk, and compliance requirements as they relate to automation (least privilege, secrets handling, approvals/segregation of duties, and auditability).
• Broad infrastructure knowledge including Linux and Windows and sufficient networking, storage, and security fundamentals to automate safely at scale.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to other engineers (direct or indirect); ability to lead a small squad and/or partner resources is an asset.
• Completion of a post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technology discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to lead a small squad and/or partner resources is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Acts as a principal technical authority for enterprise automation engineering, with deep expertise in Ansible-based configuration management and orchestration across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Designs and maintains automation standards, reference architectures, patterns, and reusable components that enable safe, repeatable automation at scale.
• Applies strong software engineering practices to automation development, including source control, code review, testing strategies, versioning, and CI/CD integration.
• Engineers automation solutions and enterprise integrations using stable, supportable interfaces (e.g., identity, secrets, ITSM/change, inventory/CMDB, pipelines, logging/monitoring).
• Embeds security, risk, and compliance controls into the automation lifecycle, including least-privilege access, secrets handling, auditability, approvals, and segregation of duties.
• Operates with a platform engineering mindset, ensuring automation solutions are reliable, observable, maintainable, and supported through runbooks and lifecycle management practices.
• Leads technical delivery end-to-end and may provide day-to-day technical leadership for a small squad and/or partner resources, setting engineering direction and quality standards.
• Enables adoption across teams through documentation, reference implementations, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Associate degree