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Job Description:

About The role

Are you an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with a wide range of technical skills, a passion for driving innovation and experience working with multi-site teams (Montreal, Toronto, Waterloo, and Gurgaon, India)? If you excel in a collaborative environment and are eager to contribute to innovative projects, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team!

You will be part of a team that values communication, collaboration, transparency, and integrity. The successful candidate will have strong technical and problem-solving skills and will show initiative, be accepting of responsibility and be open to learning new skills and coaching others.

What you will do:

• Analyze, investigate, and recommend solutions for continuous improvements, process enhancements, identify pain points, and more efficient workflows. Create templates, standards, and models to facilitate future implementations and adjust priorities when necessary.
• Demonstrate that you are a collaborative communicator with architects, designers, business system analysts, application analysts, operation teams and testing specialists to deliver fully automated ALM systems. Confidently speaking up, bringing people together, facilitating meetings, recording minutes and actions, and rallying the team towards a common goal
• Deploy, configure, manage, and perform ongoing maintenance of technical infrastructure including all DevOps tooling used by our Canadian IT squads
• Set-up and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipeline for multiple Java / .NET environments using tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker etc
• Guide development teams with the preparation of releases for production. This may include assisting in the automation of performance tests, validation of infrastructure requirements, and guiding the team with respect to system decisions
• Create or improve the automated deployment processes, techniques, and tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical operational issues related to IT Infrastructure
• 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:

• 5+ years of continuous Integration and delivery (CI/CD) experience in a systems development life cycle environment using Bitbucket, Jenkins, CDD, etc
• Self sufficient and experienced with either modern programming languages (eg. Java or C#), or scripting languages such as Python or similar.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Tableau, Grafana.
• Advanced knowledge of DevOps with a security and automation mindset
• Knowledge of using and configuring build tools and orchestration such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Sonarqube, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Continuous Delivery Director (CDD)
• Advanced knowledge of deployment (i.e. Ansible, Chef) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) tooling IAAS/PAAS/SAAS deployment and operations experience
• Experience with native mobile development on iOS and/or Android is an asset
• Experience with Scripting languages
• Experience with source code management tools such as TFS, Bitbucket, Git
• As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

What’s in it for you?

• Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US.
• Named 2021 “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• Flexible hybrid work model including in-country work-from-home if you prefer. #LI-Remote, or #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
• A common sense dress code, where you decide how you dress based on your day
• 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 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.

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.

Salary Range:

82,000/82 000 - 135,000/135 000

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

30/11/2023