Job Description: About the role: The e-Business team in Application Operations Support (AOS) provides 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 10 years of Java application support, analysis, and development experience.

The successful candidate will have robust technical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.

This unique opportunity offers a dynamic space and a chance to collaborate with multiple business units.

What you will 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.

Participate in design, develop, test and debug programs for Java services.

Deployment is done using Kubernetes containers.

Interface with other Software Engineers, Business Systems Analysts, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions and maintain a stable application environment.

Enable stability through proactive monitoring activities, security compliance, change management, troubleshooting issues and conducting root-cause analysis.

Identify and participate in continuous improvement opportunities, system renewal, stability, upgrade, and Disaster Recovery projects.

What do you need to succeed: Degree in Computer Science,



Computer Engineering, or equivalent discipline 10+ years of information technology experience in Java application support and development 10+ years experience in: Java, Java

Script & web development languages like HTML, XML, CSSJava Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies such as Servlet, JDBC and JSPSpring framework

Understanding of enterprise methodologies, such as ITIL, CMMI, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 4+ years experience in: ReactJS/ React.js

Container technologies – Kubernetes, Docker

Java Spring

Boot, SpringMVC Web Security/OWASP Web services and frameworks such as SOAP, REST API, Java APIs, JSON Database technologies like SQL, Oracle, POSTGRES Dev

Ops tools - Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket/Git, Gradle, Maven, CDD, Ansible Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Experience with Kafka and light car proxy Preferred Skills: Collaboration and teamwork Continuous learning mindset Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities Strong analysis, debugging and problem-solving 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 Knowledge of Middleware technologies such as Web

Sphere/Web

Logic Notes/Unique requirements: The role includes on-call and after-hours support on a team rotation basis.

This role requires Canadian Protected-B (Reliability clearance) [a minimum of 5 years of consecutive residency in Canada].

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Operations (Waterloo)
🏢 Sun Life
📍 Waterloo