Sr. 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.

DentaQuest manages dental and vision benefits for more than 33 million Americans. Our outcomes-based, cost-effective solutions are designed for Medicaid and CHIP, Medicare Advantage, small and large businesses, and individuals. With a focus on prevention and value, we aim to make quality care accessible to improve the oral health of all.

Location: We support US virtual working arrangements in the contiguous 48 states.

At Sun Life, we look for optimistic people who want to make life brighter for ourClients.We understand the value of diverse cultures, perspectives, and identities, and want you to bring your full and authentic self to work.Every day,you'll be empowered and challengedbyworking withdynamic colleaguesto find new and innovative ways to make Sun Life the best benefits company in America.

The opportunity:

Our release engineering team plays a critical role in supporting product development, security, and integration with hosting and network services. The team has an immediate opening for a DevOps Engineer whose responsibilities will include the design of automation patterns, implementation of DevOps middleware installations, configuration and application deployments, support of container technologies and orchestration platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), build and maintain container's images.

How you will contribute:

• Introduce new DevOps best practices to our engineers and apply them to increase our client impact

• Work within an energetic team to drive automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and help design cloud-native applications

• With Infrastructure as Code in mind, work towards refining or writing CI/CD pipelines for complete automation (including testing)

• Design, deploy and maintain scalable, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant systems on AWS

• Revise and/or propose solutions for continuous improvements in cloud cost management, health checks, security, monitoring and control

• Assist teams with troubleshooting different layers of cloud-native applications

• Analysis and design of technical processes and tasks for continuous improvement

• Partnering with other infrastructure service teams to integrate dependencies and build automation pipelines

• Participation in Agile project teams to address specific business requirements and support short development sprints

• Develop automation to support security requirements and product version currency

• Docker/Kubernetes deployment, configuration, scaling and management of containerized applications

• Integrating container platforms with automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them

• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations

• Create and maintain training documentation

• Provide timely and effective communication to management, relating to quality, resource and project issues & concerns

• Automate deployments by scripting application releases to run via command lines and build release tools from simple msi installations to complex multi-applications

• Ensures all security and compliance guidelines for application release candidates are meet; application releases moving to production environments have been successfully tested, have adequate business approval and application owner signoff to proceed

• Coordinates releases to production after non-business hours according to service level agreement guidelines serving as the primary contact. Assess the need for potential rollbacks during release implementation and obtain the necessary approvals to proceed.

• Lead release management activities for improving current release practices, new processes and projects that drive value for the business.

• Cross train operations staff and production support staff in application release automation tools.

• Responsible to design and provide specifications for resources in Azure/AWS cloud or equivalent for multi-platform applications

• Contributes to the design, implementation, and deployment strategies including on premise and Cloud applications

What you will bring with you:

• 7 years of software development work experience, with a focus on Infrastructure, Tools and/or DevOps

• 3 Years experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Pipelines etc.

• 3 years of experience with DevOps, CI/CD concepts

• Strong Terraform skillset (HashiCorp Terraform Associate certificate is preferred) and familiarity with service principals and required permissions for deploying/modifying/maintaining resources.

• Experience in Azure DevOps with pipelines/YAML, variable groups, environment and approval gates, CI/CD principals, Git branching/versioning/push/pull methodology

• Familiarity with Azure RBAC, Networking deployments and troubleshooting (routing, nsgs, fws)

• Strong IAM skills (AAD roles, service principals, APIs permissions) and security/governance skills

• Experience building and maintaining containers such as Docker orKubernetes

• Operating experience with multiple web-related middleware technologies

• Application packaging or deployment experience

• Proficiency in languages such as Python, Jython, ANT, SQL, WLST, various Unix shells (sh, bsh, ksh, bash), YAML.

• Use of code management tools such as Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, and Ansible.

• Installation and configuration of multiple web middleware products such as Weblogic, Websphere, Apache (IBM HTTP Server), Tomcat, IIS/.net Applications, IBM or Oracle Directory Server.

• Understanding of networking configuration including DNS. Load ballancers, SSL, SSH, Firewalls and general network troubleshooting.

Do you see yourself in this role even if you haven't checked all the boxes above? We welcome all talented candidates and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all forms. If you think you might thrive in this setting, we would love to hear from you.

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Life is brighter when you work at Sun Life

• Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being - mental, physical and financial - including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave, a partially-paid sabbatical program, medical plans, company paid life and AD&D insurance as well as disability programs and more

• Retirement and Stock Purchase programs to help build and enhance your future financial security including a 401(k) plan with an employer-paid match as well as an employer-funded retirement account

• A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture

• Great Place to Work Certified in Canada and the U.S.

• Named as a "Top 10" employer by the Boston Globe's "Top Places to Work" two years running

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.

If you are a California resident, the salary range for this position is:

• Southern region: $91,300 - $137,000 annually

• Central region: $96,300 - $144,400 annually

• Northern region: $102,900 - $154,400 annually

If you are a Colorado resident, the salary range for this position is $87,200 - $130,700annually.

If you are a New York resident, the salary range for this position is $102,900 - $154,400 annually.

If you are Washington resident, the salary range for this position is $96,300 - $144,400 annually.

We consider various factors in determining actual pay including your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to salary, this position is eligible for incentive awards based on individual and business performance as well as a broad range of competitive benefits.

Sun Life Financial is a leading provider of group insurance benefits in the U.S., helping people protect what they love about their lives. More than just a name, Sun Life symbolizes our brand promise of making life brighter -for our customers, partners, and communities. Join our talented, diverse workforce and launch a rewarding career. Visit us at www.sunlife.com/us to learn more.

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.

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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