Specialist Development - DevOps

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:

Specialist Development (DevOps)

Are you ready to shine?

At Sun Life, we empower you to be your most brilliant self.

Who we are?

Sun Life is a leading financial services company with 157 years of history that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We serve millions in Canada, the U.S., Asia, the U.K., and other parts of the world. We have a network of Sun Life advisors, third-party partners, and other distributors. Through them, we’re helping set our clients free to live their lives their way, from now through retirement. We’re working hard to support their wellness and health management goals, too. That way, they can enjoy what matters most to them. And that’s anything from running a marathon to helping their grandchildren learn to ride a bike.

To do this, we offer a broad range of protection and wealth products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, including:

• Insurance. Life, health, wellness, disability, critical illness, stop-loss, and long-term care insurance

• Investments. Mutual funds, segregated funds, annuities, and guaranteed investment products

• Advice. Financial planning and retirement planning services

• Asset management. Pooled funds, institutional portfolios, and pension funds

With innovative technology, a strong distribution network and long-standing relationships with some of the world’s largest employers, we are today providing financial security to millions of people globally.

Sun Life is a leading financial services company that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives, with strong insurance, asset management, investments, and financial advice portfolios. At Sun Life, our asset management business draws on the talent and experience of professionals from around the globe.

Sun Life Global Solutions (SLGS) provides Technology and Business Services to Sun Life businesses globally. Started in 2006, since then ASCI has achieved scale, growth, and operational maturity. We’ve also institutionalized Sun Life's global standards by integrating closely with their corporate functions. Asia Service Centres today has more than 1100 Engineers, 200+ AWS professionals, and a group of Certified Actuaries. They deliver various complex business solutions. The current workforce comprises of 75% Gen Y. We’re proud to be a young, bustling organization.

We are constantly expanding our strength in Information technology and are looking for fresh talents who can bring ideas and values aligning with our Digital strategy.

Our Client Impact strategy is motivated by the need to create an inclusive culture, empowered by highly engaged people. We are entering a new world that focuses on doing purpose driven work. The kind that fills your day with excitement and determination, because when you love what you do, it never feels like work. We want to create an environment where you feel empowered to take action and are surrounded by people who challenge you, support you and inspire you to become the best version of yourself. As an employer, we not only want to attract top talent, but we want you to have the best Sun Life Experience.

We strive to Shine Together, Make Life Brighter & Shape the Future!

What will you do?

At Sun Life you will work as DevOps Specialist within Technology function. In this role you will be working closely with the existing technical, operational, and business teams in Canada. 

A DevOps Specialist has a software development background that will be enhanced by designing automated CI/CD pipelines for new software projects. You will be responsible for DevOps Consulting, assessment, develop CI/CD pipeline etc. 

Moreover, as a DevOps Specialist you will need to work across multiple projects with an accountability of handling end to end DevOps activities.  

Our engineering career framework helps our engineers to understand the scope, collaborative reach, and levers for impact at every job role and defines the key behaviors and deliverables specific to one’s role and team and plan their career with Sun Life.

Key responsibilities:

• Effectively utilize multiple software development and deployment methodologies e.g., TDD, DDD, along with secure coding practices, development best practices and Agile/DevOps/DevSecOps principles

• I identify continuous improvement opportunities in the existing solutions and drive implementation.

• I act as a code reviewer and apply best practices for optimal design solutions.

• I act as a first point of contact and resolve technical issues/impediments for SDE I & II. Basic engineering, system administration / provisioning, software development (programming), support, testing and system infra provisioning foundation.

• Basic understanding and ability to utilize multiple software development methodologies e.g., Test Driven Development (TDD), Domain Driven Development (DDD), along with secure coding practices, development best practices and Agile/ DevOps principles

Key experience:

• A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• A minimum of 5 to 8 years of working experience with DevOps Consulting, assessment, implementing CI/CD pipeline and handling end to end DevOps activities in a project.

• Good experience with CI servers like Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube and others - and their application to create CI/CD pipelines 

• Good knowledge around scripting languages like Groovy, Bash and Powershell.  

• Proficiency in writing Ansible/Chef playbooks and Ansible Tower.  

• Should have worked on one of the private clouds like VMware or OpenStack. 

• Hands-on experience and expertise on working with containerization tools like Docker. 

• Hands-on experience and expertise in container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and its eco-system like Rancher, OpenShift, etc. 

• Good knowledge with Terraform.  

• Hands on with Automated Environment Provisioning (AEP) 

• Good knowledge of Build Tools like Maven, ANT, Gradle 

• Good knowledge about the WebSphere Liberty servers.  

• Extensive knowledge about microservices and their pipelines.  

• Proficiency in dealing with Java based applications with Maven/Gradle.  

• Good knowledge about cloud platforms mainly AWS like EC2, VPC, Route53, load balancer etc.  

• Good to have knowledge about node/react based CI/CD pipeline. 

• Experience in designing automated CI/CD pipelines for new software projects, right from project kickoff to production deployment and maintenance. 

• Experience and deep understanding of the DevSecOps ecosystem. 

• Experience in Burp suite & TFS 

• Experience with Agile, Jira & Service Now 

Primary Location: Gurugram/ Bengaluru

Schedule: Full-time

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

27/02/2025