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.

Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) at Sun Life is seeking for a Cloud Engineer, who can work with a skilled team of Cloud Engineers and help deliver better & efficient cloud platform solutions to our consumers.

This is a great opportunity to work with a highly skilled team of Cloud Engineers and work with them in ongoing Engineering initiatives with our partner stakeholder group and help our consumers to onboard to Cloud.

What will you do?

• Be part of a global Cloud Center of Excellence focused on delivering cloud solutions.
• Drive forward the Cloud Infrastructure as Code roadmap.
• Partner with our consumers within Sun Life to assist them get onboarded to cloud, provision environments, develop roles and build a seamless onboarding process.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture team to ensure proper execution, business, and strategic alignment.
• Consult and advise our consumers on Cloud Services, best practices and lead them to get onboarded to Cloud Environment seamlessly.
• Build automation and compliance by design using Cloud Native technologies.
• Be part of an Agile development team helping the business deliver strategic initiatives
• Working with new technologies and transforming legacy technology to leverage the Cloud.
• Make both tactical and strategic decisions including delivering Cloud Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives.
• Work with Support teams to debug and fix reported issues, and act as an escalation point for incidents
• Required to move quickly but never compromise the security of our systems or the privacy of our clients.
• Apply best practices, standards, and ensure compliance to all company security directives.
• Participate in security engineering to ensure compliance by design.
• Support Cloud Audit, and Risk and compliance requirements from partnering with Security and governance teams.
• Willing to work and support cloud platform with on engineering escalated on call rotations.

What do you need to succeed?

• University degree/college diploma in related discipline(s) or equivalent work experience, and/or 5+ years of industry experience in the IT industry
• 5 years of relevant work experience in server administration and/or cloud solution administration in an enterprise environment.
• Technical and business experience with one of the main public cloud providers (AWS, or Azure, or GCP).
• Experience in DevOps environments and the use of automation to deliver business value is useful
• Experience in Software Engineering, Scripting, SDLC, or Infrastructure as Code.
• Advanced experience with programming and/or scripting languages (Python, Perl, Java, Bash, Ruby)
• Systems provisioning and configuration management experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, or Cloud Native tools.
• Databases and data experience such as: PostgreSQL, Redis or similar
• You’ve engineered solutions for enterprise initiatives on a global scale.

Preferred Skills

• Technical knowledge/ Cloud Certification with one of the public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Good knowledge with programming and/or scripting languages (Python, Perl, Java, Bash, Ruby)
• Strong communication skills that build customers’ confidence and trusted partnership.
• The ability to deliver documents, artifacts, and documentation (not just consoles and keyboards).

Note:

• Please note that this role will require on-call rotation work.
• In addition, to qualify for this role, you must be eligible for Enhanced Reliability Clearance with the Government of Canada.

What's in it for you?

• Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US - 2022
• Great Place to Work® award for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork - 2022
• Named “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor - 2021
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• Flex hours and Flexible hybrid work model including in-country work-from-home if you prefer. #LI-Hybrid
• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
• A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture
• Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience.
• Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
• 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

Our Affirmative Action Program affirms our commitment to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitation of otherwise-qualified individuals with disabilities or special disabled veterans, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please email recruitingUS@sunlife.com to request an accommodation.

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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.