Job Description

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.

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At Sun Life, we work together, share common values and encourage growth and achievement. For ten consecutive years, Sun Life has been named one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World! Dedicated and talented employees are the cornerstone for the company's success and reputation for excellence. We offer many career paths that attract a wide variety of talent and skills. Follow a path that lets your talents shine. Contribute to helping our clients achieve lifetime financial security by bringing your best!

About the role:

The e-Business team in Application Operations Support (AOS) is dedicated to providing operations and support services to ensure reliability of IT applications. Through innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration, we strive to find new and better ways to bring value to Sun Life.

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with at least 5 years of Java & API application support, analysis and development experience. The successful candidate will have strong technical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently. As a member of the team that supports Enterprise IT applications, responsibilities include Application support, responding to service requests & incidents, debugging and problem solving, security reviews, maintaining stability, systems analysis, performance tuning, application development, unit testing and writing technical specifications.

This unique opportunity offers a chance to work with modern technologies in a highly rewarding environment.

What will you do?

• Provide ongoing support of Java based applications in Production and test environments including responding to Service requests, Incident & Problem analysis, Service restoration and recovery, Security vulnerability remediation, Audits and reporting as necessary
• Interface with other Software Engineers, Infrastructure teams, Lead Software Engineers, Business Systems Analysts and other stakeholders to deliver high quality solutions and maintain a stable, high performing application environment
• Lead and participate in design, develop, test and debug programs for Java REST web service APIs and microservices. Deployment is done using Kubernetes containers
• Lead, manage and incorporate API technologies
• Use and enhance DEVOps capabilities using Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Gradle, Maven, Continuous Delivery Director, and Ansible
• Mentor and support colleagues in their capabilities
• Build event driven services using Kafka
• Develop and maintain strategies for proactive monitoring of applications to provide early warning signs
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to eliminate waste and add efficiencies
• Ensure strict compliance of security and change management directives
• Identify and participate in improvement, system renewal, stability, upgrade and Disaster Recovery projects
• Enable stability through troubleshooting issues and conducting root-cause analysis

The API Platform

• Our APIs are REST services written in Java Spring Boot, deployed in Kubernetes containers
• Some APIs are true microservices accessing domain databases
• DEVOps are Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Gradle, Continuous Delivery Director (CDD), Ansible, Maven

What do you need to succeed?

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent discipline
• 5+ years of information technology experience in Java application support and development
• 5+ years experience in:

• Java, JavaScript & web development languages like HTML, XML, CSS
• web services like SOAP, JSON, Java APIs & REST API
• Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies such as Servlet, JDBC and JSP
• Understanding of enterprise methodologies, such as ITIL, CMMI, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Spring framework
• 2+ years experience in:

• Database technologies like SQL, Oracle, POSTGRES
• DevOps tools - Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket/Git, Gradle, Maven, CDD, Ansible
• Container technologies - Kubernetes, Docker
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Preferred Skills:

• Solid business and technical acumen, with demonstrated agility in learning and ability to become comfortable with unfamiliar businesses areas or technologies
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
• Strong relationship management and consulting skills
• Solid written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

• Exposure to Agile framework (Kanban, Scrum)
• Experience working with cloud hosted applications / servers on AWS
• Exposure to team collaboration tools like Confluence, JIRA, MS Teams
• Experience with ReactJS/ React.js
• Experience with Kafka
• Knowledge of Middleware technologies such as Websphere/Weblogic

Notes/Unique requirements:

• The role includes on-call and after hours support on a team rotation basis
• This role requires Canadian Enhanced Reliability Security clearance [a minimum of 5 years of consecutive residency in Canada].

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to .

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range: 80,000/80 000 - 130,400/130 400

Job Category: IT - Application Development

Posting End Date: 04/11/2022