City : North York

Category : Full-time

Industry : Finance

Employer : Sun Life Financial

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:

The Technology and Transformation Strategy team is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with experience designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and analyzing large-scale applications, pipelines and tooling systems that support the end-to-end development process.

What will you do?

• Assist application development teams to implement or implement CI/CD for teams and work with coaches to teach the teams to maintain and use the solutions adhering to Sun Life standards & policies.
• Understand Sun Life recommended good practices and benefits.  Provide context relevant recommendations and help teams adopt.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, business system analysts, application analysts, operation teams and testing specialists to deliver fully automated CI/CD systems
• Deploys, configures, manages, and performs 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 DevOps pipeline

What you need to succeed:

• University Degree or College Diploma in a Computer Science or Technology
• Minimum 7 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience
• A strong DevOps background with a security and automation mindset
• Experience owning pipeline code in production, as well as designing and creating deployment pipelines, configure tooling and monitoring
• Experience with tools and scripting languages such as Maven, Gradle, MS Build, Groovy and Shell
• 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, Git, 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) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) tooling IaaS/PaaS/SaaS deployment and operations experience
• Knowledge of security tools such as SonarQube, JFrog Xray, BurpSuite, Synopsys Seeker
• Scripting skills are a plus
• Solid hardware and application virtualization platform experience
• Knowledge of Active Directory

Unique / Additional Requirements:

• We know there are endless tools in the DevOps toolbox, and we don’t expect you to come in as an expert on everything, but you are looking forward to experimenting and learning

What’s in it for you:

• Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US.
• 2022 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work®.
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• We’re proud to be a Best Workplace for Hybrid Work by Great Place to Work® Canada
• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
• An environment of continuous learning and improvement
• Flexible hours and periodic work from home options

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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