Site Reliability Engineer – Release Management, Automation Specialist

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About the role

  • Site Reliability Engineer automating enterprise release orchestration and delivery operations for Sun Life. Supporting platform reliability, Kubernetes automation, and transition to a future release management solution.

Responsibilities

  • Sustain current enterprise release orchestration operations, integrations, automation, governance, and support activities
  • Design, develop, and support technical solutions that automate agent deployments and release orchestration processes
  • Provide technical support for vendor evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and transition to a future enterprise release management platform
  • Participate in pipeline planning, design, development, and support of release and orchestration processes
  • Provide input to automation policies, standards, and processes
  • Promote solution reuse and adoption across teams through demos and coaching
  • Ensure automations comply with Sun Life Financial security directives and policies
  • Create automation playbooks and companion documentation
  • Identify automation opportunities and guide effective implementation
  • Educate others on automation tools and best practices
  • Operate in compliance with security and change management directives
  • Balance platform reliability, operational support, stakeholder engagement, and incident resolution with an SRE mindset

Requirements

  • 3-5 years' experience in automation development, specifically Ansible
  • Kubernetes/OpenShift administration; CKA/CKS certification ideally
  • Linux/Unix system administration
  • Python, JavaScript, and Ansible automation
  • Hands-on experience with Broadcom Continuous Delivery Director (CDD) or other enterprise release orchestration and management tools such as Harness.io
  • Hands-on coding experience in Java, Apache Tomcat, JAX-RS, Maven, and Gradle
  • Hands-on experience working in containers/Kubernetes
  • Experience with monitoring and log ingestion tools; Splunk monitoring and query development preferred
  • Networking, firewalls, proxies, and connectivity troubleshooting
  • System architecture, REST API integration, and integration design
  • Passion and thought leadership for innovation and automation
  • Strong SRE mindset focused on reliability, automation, and operational excellence
  • Emerging capabilities in AI-assisted operations, AI-driven automation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI agent integration patterns

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and bonus structure informed by market range data
  • 20+ days of vacation per year
  • Innovative sabbatical program
  • Friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture
  • Flexible benefits from day one for employees and their families
  • Pension, stock, and savings programs
  • Fitness and wellness programs
  • Flexible work from both the office and virtually based on business, client, and employee needs

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AnsibleApacheFirewallsGradleJavaJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxMavenOpenShiftPythonSplunkUnix

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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