Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Sun Life

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, DNS, Firewalls, Java, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Perl, Python, SQL, Unix
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Waterloo, Canada

About the role

• DevOps Engineer focusing on automation patterns and container technologies for product development. Collaborating with teams on Agile projects and participating in on-call rotations for support.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes deployment, configuration, scaling and management of containerized applications.
• Integrating container platforms with automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines.
• 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.
• Troubleshooting and fixing code bugs and provide support of automated tasks.
• Develop automation to support security requirements and product version currency
• Participate in Weekly Production On-call Rotations

Requirements

• 2-3 years UNIX (Solaris/AIX/Linux) and/or Windows Server 2016/2019
• At least 2 years of software development work experience, with a focus on Containers platforms, Infrastructure, Tools and/or DevOps.
• Scripting or programming skills in more than one of the following: Java, Jython, Perl, Python, SQL, YAML or various Unix shells scripting (sh, bsh, ksh, bash).
• Operational experience with multiple web-related middleware technologies
• Application packaging or deployment experience
• Excellent analytical skills and communication skills with the ability to ask probing questions to understand the various concepts presented/discussed.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and make decisions that require innovative thinking
• Use of code management and DevOps tools such as Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Git, and Jenkins.
• Understanding of networking configuration including DNS.
• Load balancers, SSL, SSH, Firewalls and general network troubleshooting.
• University Degree or College Diploma in related discipline(s) and/or 6+ years in IT industry.
• After hours operations support is required.

Benefits

• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life’s policies and practices.