Student, Junior Dev Ops Engineer (Fall 2024)

at  Sun Life

Our student and new graduate programs offer a chance to explore Sun Life from the inside. You’ll make a difference in the lives of our customers and communities, while building the skills and experience that allow you to grow in a meaningful and rewarding way.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As a DevOps Engineer, you are part of a highly focused, self-managed Agile team who designs, develops & maintains a Continuous Build, Integration, Test and Monitoring pipeline to support the delivery of Sunlife DevOps solutions. As our teams operate in a highly dynamic, squad-based environment, you will have the opportunity to work close-knit squad that cultivates creativity and challenges the status quo and pushes limits on finding new and inventive ways to work. As part of Enterprise Services, Data Management Services works with all areas of Sun Life Financial, supporting our business partners by providing technology solutions needed to achieve business excellence. This position offers great career growth opportunities using emerging technologies including Terraform/Packer, Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins and AWS as part of a highly available DevOps implementation to help drive quality, speed, and efficiency. You are also part of a team who constantly seeks to add value for our stakeholders, enhances the scalability of our infrastructure and manages the disaster recovery and capacity of our delivery pipeline.
The ideal candidate should have a strong passion for solving problems, developing highly efficient automation and digital deployment pipelines, experimenting with new technologies and development of their own hobby applications. They should also have a keen interest in researching the latest DevOps technologies. In addition, the ideal candidate must also have a relentless desire for continuous improvement through the learning of new things, be a champion of new ideas, continually explore new perspectives, and embrace going beyond their comfort zone even at the risk of failure or embarrassment.

• Continuously improve the Jenkins build and test automation tools to support CI/CD.
• Develop Ansible playbooks, power shell scripts to automate processes and tasks currently done manually.
• Develop code in Packer/Terraform, delivering re-usable patterns.
• Govern and manage code repositories (git, BitBucket or etc.).
• Develop performance testing strategies to ensure UI continues to meet expanding user base.
• Document all required design specifications and technical tasks.
• Work in an agile environment to quickly translate vision into reality.
• Develop DevOps code that is reusable, reliable, and scalable.
• Collaborate with colleagues in joint development and integration tasks.