Senior DevOps / GenAI Automation Lead

Sun Life | Job Posting 1752 - DevOps Specialist III

Contract: Short-term contract through December 31, 2026

Work Model: Mostly remote with occasional onsite collaboration

Preferred Locations: Ontario (Toronto/Scarborough/Waterloo) or Montreal; must be able to work EST hours

Experience Level: Senior / Lead-level profile, ideally 8–10+ years

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior, hands-on DevOps / Cloud Automation professional with strong experience across AWS, Jenkins and Terraform .

The ideal candidate will also bring strong Ansible / AAP2 , database automation or decommissioning experience, and meaningful GenAI / Agentic AI exposure.

This person should be able to work independently, take ownership of technical initiatives, and collaborate closely with database, security, infrastructure and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead DevOps and infrastructure automation initiatives supporting enterprise database environments.
- Automate and improve database processes, including provisioning, patching, migration, operational support and decommissioning.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins .
- Support infrastructure automation and IaC using Terraform and AWS .
- Develop and maintain automation using Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform 2 (AAP2) .
- Automate password, service account, API key and certificate lifecycle activities using tools such as HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk .
- Integrate DevOps and automation platforms using REST APIs .
- Where applicable, design and build GenAI / Agentic AI solutions for DevOps and database operations.

Must-Have Experience

- Ideally 8–10+ years of DevOps, Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Automation experience.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience.
- Strong Jenkins experience, including pipelines, Shared Libraries, Groovy and preferably JTE.
- Strong Terraform experience supporting enterprise cloud environments.
- Hands-on Ansible experience; AAP2 experience is highly preferred.




- Strong Git / Bitbucket and CI/CD experience.
- Strong scripting experience using Python , Bash and/or PowerShell.
- Experience integrating systems and automation platforms using REST APIs .
- Strong understanding of database infrastructure and operations.
- Experience with database automation / process improvement ; database decommissioning experience is highly valued.

GenAI / Agentic AI – Strong Preference For the senior profile, hands-on GenAI / Agentic AI experience is strongly preferred, including experience with some of the following:

- Building AI agents or GenAI solutions in production or near-production environments.
- AWS Bedrock or similar AI/agent platforms.
- RAG pipelines , embeddings, vector stores and retrieval.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) and tool integrations.
- LangGraph, LangChain or similar agent frameworks.
- AI agents integrated with REST APIs, DevOps tooling or database platforms.
- Prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, guardrails and AI workflow operationalization.

Security & Automation Experience with some of the following is highly desirable:

- HashiCorp Vault
- CyberArk
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Active Directory / LDAP
- Password and credential rotation
- TLS certificate lifecycle automation
- Kubernetes secrets management

Leadership / Working Style

- Able to independently lead technical initiatives.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Able to ramp up quickly in an existing enterprise workplace.
- Proactive communicator who raises risks and issues early.
- Comfortable working with DBAs, security, application and infrastructure teams.
- Strong ownership and delivery focus.

Nice to Have

- Kubernetes / OpenShift, Helm, Docker or Podman.
- Grafana, CloudWatch or other monitoring / observability tools.
- ServiceNow, Jira or ITSM automation experience.
- AWS or Terraform certifications.
- Financial-services or other regulated-industry experience.

Education Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required. Computer Science or a related technical discipline is preferred.

📌 Senior DevOps / GenAI Automation Lead- 1752 (Toronto)
🏢 Amyantek
📍 Toronto