Site Reliability Engineer Release Management & Automation Specialist

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.

At Sun Life were driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring authentic bold inspiring and impactful.

When you join Sun Life youll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients lives.

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly motivated experienced and self-driven technical resource to serve as a Site Reliability Engineer / Release Management & Automation Specialist. This role provides critical support for a strategic enterprise release orchestration platform and delivery operations system. You will be responsible for sustaining current enterprise release orchestration operations while supporting our transition to a future enterprise release management solution. This unique opportunity combines immediate platform sustainment with strategic transformation initiatives offering a chance to work with modern technologies in a highly rewarding environment.

What will you do

• Sustain current enterprise release orchestration operations integrations automation governance and support activities while preserving critical platform knowledge
• Design develop and support technical solutions that automate agent deployments and release orchestration processes
• Provide strategic technical support for vendor evaluations proof-of-concepts and the transition to a future enterprise release management platform
• Participate in pipeline planning design develop and support release and orchestration processes
• Provide input to automation policy standards and processes
• Promote re-use and adoption of solutions across teams through demos and coaching
• Ensure all automations are compliant with SLF security directives and policies
• Create automation playbooks and companion documentation as references to help the team understand the logic and contents of automated tasks
• Identify opportunities for automation and guide on effective ways to implement
• Educate others on the use of automation tools and best practices
• Always operate in strict compliance of security and change management directives
• Balance platform reliability operational support stakeholder engagement and incident resolution with an SRE mindset

What will you need to succeed

• 3-5 years experience in automation development (Ansible specifically)
• Kubernetes/OpenShift administration (ideally CKA/CKS certified)
• Linux/Unix system administration
• Python JavaScript and Ansible automation
• Hands-on experience using Broadcom Continuous Delivery Director (CDD) tool or any other types of enterprise release orchestration and management tool such as etc.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java Apache Tomcat JAX-RS Maven and Gradle
• Hands-on experience working in containers/Kubernetes
• Experience and understanding of monitoring and log ingestion tools (Splunk monitoring and query development preferred)
• Networking firewalls proxies and connectivity troubleshooting
• System architecture REST API integration and integration design
• Passion and thought leadership for innovation and automation
• Strong SRE mindset focused on reliability automation and operational excellence
• Emerging capabilities in AI-assisted operations AI-driven automation Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI agent integration patterns

Whats in it for you

• Competitive salary and bonus structure informed by market range data
• 20 days of vacation per year and an innovative sabbatical program
• A friendly collaborative and inclusive culture
• Flexible benefits from day one to meet the needs of you and your family
• Pension stock and savings programs to support long-term financial security
• Fitness and wellness programs that help you balance work and life

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.

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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