DevOps Manager

3 weeks ago


Waterloo, Canada Sun Life Full time

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.

Reporting to the API Integration and DevOps Director for Canadian IT, the DevOps Manager will lead a squad of DevOps engineers to deliver on DE Canada Digital strategy. You will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your team, influence the strategic decisions, deliver solutions, and oversee team members who work within autonomous squads. As a servant leader, you will focus on the growth and development of practitioners and ensure the alignment of the practice.

**What will you do?**
- Accountable for resourcing direct report based on the DE needs and the direction set by the Chapter and Domain leaders.
- Execute upon key resourcing responsibilities : recruiting, hiring and onboarding new DevOps engineers
- Partner with Journey and Platform leaders to manage the deployment of chapter members into squads
- Responsible for Performance Management activities:

- Coaching chapter members on their performance
- Deciding and conveying performance ratings and rationale
- Making decisions on compensation related to performance
- Build and maintain a skills matrix for direct reports
- Assess individual chapter members skills and knowledge considering current role and career progression aspirations. Assign training, mentorship, and experiential learning as required to close gaps.
- Share best practices amongst team members
- Drive knowledge and best practice growth within the team
- Assist in executing upon a talent strategy that enables career progression, mobility, and professional development for their team members
- Demonstrate genuine concern for those who work on your team and prioritize their needs ahead of your own.
- Keep informed on market trends, DevOps, business strategy and continuously develop your own expertise and knowledge
- Actively participate in the Chapter leadership community of practice to ensure consistency and alignment in chapter management practices across DE Canada.

**What will you need to succeed?**
- 5+ years of experience in Talent Management - recruitment and selection, performance management, performance development and coaching, reward and recognition
- Read books like “Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility”, “The Phoenix project”, “The five dysfunctions of a team”
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment
- Experience with DevOps pipelines
- Experience Leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams
- Experience with resource planning, identifying and acquiring talent needs, and talent allocation across large organizations
- A progressive thought leader who can empower and energize high performing teams.
- Recognized servant leader.
- Experience encouraging team members to create a rewarding working environment in which they are driven and motivated to have a real impact within their respected product teams.
- Experience creating an environment of learning and growth, continuous improvement, and team building
- Experience in fast-paced Agile environments.
- Financial services experience, preferred

**What's in it for you?**
- Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
- Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
- An environment of continuous learning and improvement
- Flexible hours and periodic work from home options
- The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

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**:
19/03/2023


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