Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Analyst

at  Sun Life

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge Enterprise Data Lake, Machine Learning, and Analytics technologies? We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled Cloud Analyst to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have experience in Information Technology, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience with Cloud technologies.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders
• Proactive initiative, curiosity, and conscientiousness to drive continuous improvement
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively to achieve project objectives
• Leadership ability to lead small to medium project teams and inspire others.
• Willingness to share ideas and actively participate in group discussions

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Manage and administer Enterprise Data Lake and related eco-system technologies
• Demonstrate proficiency with Amazon Web Services, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Design, Develop and manage AWS infrastructure and applications. Expertise includes compute (EC2), storage (S3), serverless (Lambda), databases (RDS), Glue (Data Catalog)
• Work with machine learning platforms like SageMaker and frameworks like GenAI for building/deploying AI/ML models, search service (Kendra), and core AWS services.
• Implement data query enhancement tools using Starburst Trino, AWS EKS, Athena
• Work with Cloud Formation templates,
• Perform performance tuning for queries, applications, and resources
• Lead small to large infrastructure POCs, utilizing defined technologies
• Maintain up-to-date documentation and procedures for all supported database platforms
• Collaborate with Database Administrators and Developers to define and document requirements
• Utilize DevOps methodologies to develop Python scripts for Windows and Unix (Linux) based platforms, Understand, read, write YAML code, JSON,
• Follow Change Management Process and support project development within documented standards
• Occasionally provide after-hours and weekend support for planned production implementations and disaster recovery exercises
• Collaborate closely with team members, technical leads, and application support teams to ensure quality database services
• Define, document, and implement consistent standards and procedures
• Evaluate functionality and features within related database products
• Contribute innovative solutions and best practice improvements