Sr. Network Solution Design Engineer, Functional Engineering

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.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

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About the job:
Enterprise Network Service provides essential set of network connectivity and functional services to the Sun Life Financial global community in support of the digital enterprise and business operations worldwide.

The Network Solution Design Engineering Team is accountable for developing and maintaining strategy and roadmaps for network technology domains as well as designing, engineering, communicating, and delivering complex and innovative end-to-end solutions, enabling Sun Life Financial business operations globally.

What you will do?

• We are seeking a Senior Micro segmentation Engineer to design, implement, and operationalize enterprise micro segmentation solutions across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.

• The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in Zero Trust principles, workload protection, application dependency mapping, firewall policy management, cloud security, and security automation. Experience with Akamai Guardicore, Illumio, VMware, Kubernetes, AWS, and enterprise-scale security operations is highly preferred.

• Provide technical leadership or subject matter expertise within projects to deliver secure suitable technical solutions, compliant with governance, policies, standards, and procedures to realize the projects’ objective, successful implementation, and its operationalization.

• Deliver both high-level and detailed-level designs, in accordance to best practices, with security, fault resiliency, tolerance, sizing and agility considerations, inclusive of just in time and solution release documentation.

• Contribute to ongoing operations, maintenance, and evolution of the network infrastructure and its services on-premises/in-cloud, through POC, LCM, proactive health and performance analysis, as well as degradation and incident remediation.

• Advance enabling technologies for Automation, Data & Analytics, DevOps, API, and Digital Assets, within Network Services’ Infrastructure and Functional Engineering be it on-premises or in-cloud.

• Create & manage business requirements, business processes and operational standards and procedures.

• Development of comprehensive Engineering and Architecture documentations.

What you will need to succeed?

• 5+ years of experience in Network Security, Cybersecurity, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Strong understanding of:-
  - Micro segmentation and Zero Trust Architecture
  - Network Segmentation and East-West Traffic Controls
  - Layer 3-7 networking concepts
  - Firewall policy design and enforcement
  - Application Dependency Mapping (ADM)
  - Least Privilege security models

• Experience implementing or managing:
  - Akamai Guardicore (preferred)
  - Illumio
  - Cisco Secure Workload / Tetration
  - Zero Networks

• Knowledge of:
  - TCP/IP, Routing, Switching
  - DNS, DHCP
  - Load Balancers (F5)
  - Linux and Windows Server platforms

• Cloud & Virtualization: Hands-on experience with:
  - AWS Security Groups
  - Azure Network Security Groups
  - VMware vSphere / VCF
  - VMware NSX
  - Kubernetes Network Policies
  - Container security

What’s in it for you?

• Being a member of the Sun Life family, a group of people united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

• 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 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 [email protected].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

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

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