Sr DevOps Engineer

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

As a Sr DevOps Engineer, you are part of a highly focused, self-managed Agile team who designs, develops and maintains a Continuous Build, Integration, Test and Monitoring pipeline to support the delivery of Sunlife DevOps solutions. As our teams operate in a highly dynamic, squad-based environment, you will have the opportunity to work with close-knit squads that cultivate creativity, challenge the status quo and push limits on finding new and inventive ways to work.

This position offers great career growth opportunities using emerging technologies including Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins and AWS as part of a DevOps implementation to help drive quality, speed and efficiency. Be part of a team who constantly seeks to add value for our stakeholders/clients, enhance the scalability of the infrastructure, manage disaster recovery and capacity of the delivery pipeline.

The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for problem solving, develop highly efficient automation and digital deployment pipelines, experiment with new technologies and development of their own hobby applications. Strong candidates should be very comfortable with coding in one or more programming languages [i.e.: Python, Java, Perl, etc.]. The candidate will have a keen interest in researching the latest DevOps technologies, have a desire and be a champion for continuous improvement through the learning of new things/new ideas, continually explore new perspectives, and embrace going beyond their comfort zone.

What will you do?

• Automate using CI/CD & IaC: processes, workflows, configurations (AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Python Boto3, GoLang, Python and Bash scripting, Comfortable with Linux & command line).
• Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices, tools, and processes across the team.
• Provide guidance, knowledge, training and support for infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and cloud-based infrastructure management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to implement and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain automated infrastructure and application provisioning and configuration management.
• Must have experience in automation for CI/CD (Git/ BitBucket /Jenkins/ Artifactory / CloudFormation).
• Excellent knowledge of writing AWS CloudFormation or Terraform Scripts.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible.
• Hands-on knowledge with Linux RedHat and/or Docker containerization.
• Experience with scripting knowledge with Ansible playbooks, Python, Perl or Bash.
• Sound knowledge of security/access control.
• Experience with Linux development toolchain (i.e. rpm, yum).

What will you need to succeed?

• University degree in Computer Science or related information technology degree/diploma.

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience on mainstream relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, MSQL, SQL Server or Oracle.
• 2 -3 years of demonstrable knowledge on Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• 3 – 5 years experience in enterprise-level software development and deployment (scalability, performance).
• 3-5 years of direct experience in AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Industry recognized certifications, such as AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator etc.
• Problem-solving skills and experience and have the experience to lead medium to complex initiatives. This includes programming skills verification during the hiring process/onboarding process.
• Strong communication skills, ability to convey ideas and opinions to all levels of employees and management.
• Take initiative to for development, be curious, persistent to find the right solutions to resolve complex problems and communicate ideas to team and management.

Reliability Status Clearance:

 As a condition of the role, the successful candidate must be able to obtain a Government of Canada Reliability Status security clearance through Sun Life in advance of the start date.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re proud to be a Best Workplace for Hybrid Work by Great Place to Work® Canada
• Recognized in 2023 with the Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family. 
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted.  It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors.  In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance.  Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results. 

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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