Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll 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 youll 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:

About the role:

The Technology and Transformation Strategy team seeks a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer with experience designing developing implementing supporting and analyzing largescale tooling and systems that support the endtoend development process.

To be successful in this highly technical Director level role you will have provided advisory and technical leadership for multiple successful DevOps implementations as a senior individual contributor.

The successful candidate will have strong technical leadership and problemsolving skills. You will show initiative be accepting of responsibility and be accountable for results.

What will you do

• Collaborate with enterprise architects solution designers business system analysts application analysts operation teams and testing specialists to deliver fully automated CI/CD systems
• Consult on and technically lead DevOps transformations
• Deploy configure manage and perform ongoing maintenance of DevOps pipeline and tools code
• Be the custodian of shared DevOps pipeline code and scripts for multiple technologies (Java .NET and more)
• Provide maintain and manage the appropriate release policy processes standards and procedures
• Create or improve the automated deployment processes techniques and tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical operational issues related to the DevOps pipeline
• Review and analyze organizational needs and goals to determine future impacts to applications and systems
• Ensure information security standards and requirements are incorporated into all solutions
• Stay current with trends in emerging technologies and how they could apply to Sun Life

What you need to succeed:

• A strong senior technical leadership background in DevOps with a DevSecOps and automation mindset.
• Experience owning pipeline code in production as well as designing and creating deployment pipelines configure tooling and monitoring
• Senior level experience with the Python scripting language. Additional experience such as Maven Gradle MS Build and Groovy would be beneficial.
• Working knowledge of some of Java J2EE Liberty Tomcat Eclipse IntelliJ Microsoft .NET Unix Windows Server IIS IBM DevOps (IDz zUnit DBB UrbanCode Deploy)
• Experience with source code management tools such as Bitbucket GitHub Azure DevOps Server
• Experience in using and configuring build tools and orchestration such as Jenkins Maven Gradle Artifactory.
• Knowledge of automated deployment (examples: Ansible Chef)
• Containerization (Docker Kubernetes) tooling IaaS/PaaS/SaaS deployment and operations experience. Knowledge of Packer and Terraform would be beneficial.
• Exposure to basic AWS services like EC2 ECS EKS Lambda
• Agile experience
• Development experience in Java C#
• J2EE and .NET application build and deployment automation experience
• Jira Confluence MS Teams experience Liberty Tomcat
• Exposure to Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration architectures and technologies
• Knowledge of web technologies (examples: React JavaScript AJAX HTML5 and CSS) related protocols and standards (examples: HTTP SSL SQL XML)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with the senior and executive leadership team.
• Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders and adapt your approach when collaborating with technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a strong collaborative multisite team
• Excellent organizing planning and time management skills
• Selfdirected and proactive; thinking beyond the immediate problem with ability to analyze situations/problems systematically and deliver effective rightsized solutions in a timely manner
• Possess an inherent passion for continuous improvement and innovation
• Customer and results focused
• Flexible and adaptable with the ability to align to changing priorities
• As this position is posted in several locations we specify that bilingualism (French English both oral and written) is required for Quebec only as the position includes managing both French and Englishspeaking staff (Quebec and outside Quebec) and providing daily support to the team.

Assets:

Knowledge of the financial and/or insurance industries

Whats in it for you

• Great Place to Work Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canadaand 2023
• Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work certification from Excellence Canada. Sun Life is one of only four companies in Canada to ever receive this certification 2024
• Top Work Places for Remote Work Monster Canada 2024
• Great Place to Work Certified for Best Workplaces in Canada 2024 and 2022
• Great Place to Work Certified for Best Workplaces for Women in Canada 2024
• Flexible hybrid work model. #LIHybrid.
• Pension stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
• Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
• A friendly collaborative and inclusive culture
• Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience.
• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data

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.

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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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