Principal, Infrastructure Automation Engineering

Requisition ID: 267094 

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

Contributes to the overall success of Global Technology Services in Canada by providing principallevel 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.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:
• 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.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:
• 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 (onpremises 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.

What's in it for you?
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• 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 - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

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.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.