Senior Principal 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.

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About the role:

The Technology and Transformation Strategy team seeks a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer with experience designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and analyzing large-scale tooling and systems that support the end-to-end 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 problem-solving 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 non-technical audiences
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a strong, collaborative multi-site team
• Excellent organizing, planning and time management skills
• Self-directed and proactive; thinking beyond the immediate problem with ability to analyze situations/problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized 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 English-speaking staff (Quebec and outside Quebec) and providing daily support to the team.

Assets:

Knowledge of the financial and/or insurance industries

What's in it for you?

• Great Place to Work® Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canada - 2025, 2024 and 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. #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 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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