Agent & DevOps Platform Engineer

Bring us your passion for digital or data analytics and well put you to work on exciting initiatives that answer the challenge: How can we do that better Working with a dedicated team of energetic forward-thinking innovators youll stretch your imagination and sharpen your skills on the leading-edge projects that are keeping Sun Life Financial ahead of the curve. You want more than a job; you want a career - a career with a company that encourages learning and personal growth.You want to be one of the best.

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About the Role

The Digital Solutions team is building agent-driven software delivery from the ground up automated pipelines self-healing infrastructure AI systems that replace manual toil across the entire SDLC.

Were reinventing how our engineering organization builds and ships software and we need people who can build the platform that makes it possible.

This is a hands-on engineering role not a consulting or advisory one.

Youll design and operate production-grade AI agents CI/CD automation and DevSecOps tooling.

Coaching and enablement of other teams is part of the work but you lead by building things that others can learn from and adopt not by running workshops.

Youve built real automation in real enterprise environments.

You understand why most DevOps transformations stall and how to avoid it.

Youre comfortable going from LLM API call to deployed production agent and you care about reliability security and long-term maintainability not just shipping demos.

What Youll Build and Own

AI Agents & Agentic Pipelines

Design build and operate AI agents that automate tasks across the SDLC testing vulnerability remediation deployment validation release management and more

Engineer LLMOps infrastructure: prompt pipelines tool-calling agents orchestration evaluation observability and reliability

Integrate agents with enterprise systems: SCM platforms CI/CD tools ticketing security scanners and internal APIs

Ensure AI solutions meet security compliance and governance requirements from the start not as an afterthought

CI/CD & Platform Engineering

Design build and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines across Java Python ecosystems

Own and evolve core DevOps tooling: Bitbucket Jenkins Artifactory Ansible Docker and related platforms

Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code configuration management and container-based deployments

Ensure platform reliability through monitoring incident response and performance optimization

DevSecOps & Security Automation

Embed security scanning policy enforcement and security remediation into pipelines automatically not manually

Work with security and architecture teams to define and enforce standards at the platform level

Build self-healing and self-auditing capabilities that reduce human intervention in compliance workflows

Enablement & Standards

Define and document platform standards that delivery teams can adopt without hand-holding

Coach teams toward automation-first self-service patterns through working examples not slide decks

Act as a technical lead and advisor to product teams architects and platform stakeholders

What You Bring

Required:

35 years of hands-on CI/CD and platform engineering experience in enterprise environments

Proficiency in at least one of: Python Groovy and willingness to work across all of them

Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-based tools or agents in production or near-production environments

Strong understanding of LLMOps concepts: prompt management tool use agent architectures evaluation observability

Experience with Git-based workflows build automation and release pipelines at scale

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code containers and configuration management

DevSecOps mindset security is a design constraint not a checklist item

Strong Assets:

Experience integrating AI into developer platforms or enterprise tooling (not just standalone apps)

Familiarity with cloud-native AI services (AWS or equivalent)

Prior work on agentic orchestration frameworks (LangChain LlamaIndex custom toolchains etc.)

Experience enabling DevOps practices across multiple teams or business units

Agile delivery experience (Scrum Kanban SAFe)

Who You Are

You build things and share them your coaching is your working code your pipelines your agents

You think in systems: you understand the downstream effects of what you build and design accordingly

Youre comfortable in ambiguity and can define the right problem before solving the wrong one

You have strong opinions on automation reliability and security and can defend them with evidence

You learn fast experiment deliberately and know when to stop experimenting and ship

Why This Role

Youll be one of the first people shaping how this organization builds and runs software in an agent-driven world. The foundation exists Code modernization management pipelines automated tooling enterprise integrations and the mandate is to go much further. Youll have direct access to stakeholders and real authority over platform direction. This is a foundational engineering role with genuine scope to build something that outlasts your first 90 days.

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 English-speaking staff (Quebec and outside Quebec) and providing daily support to the team.

Whats in it for you

Great Place to Work Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canadaand 2023

Great Place to Work Certified for Best Workplaces in Canada - 2025

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. #LI-Hybrid

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 opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

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 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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We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing screening interview scheduling.

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

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