Sr. Network Solution Design Engineer, Functional Engineering

sunlife; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Work from home options

Pension

Stock and savings programs

Continuous learning

Job summary

Sun Life is seeking a Senior Micro segmentation Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise micro segmentation solutions across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will apply Zero Trust, workload protection, and ADM concepts to secure Sun Life's global network.

You will contribute to architecture, automation, and security operations while delivering clear designs and compliant solutions across platforms and clouds.

Qualifications

• Proficient in micro segmentation and Zero Trust architecture.
• Experience with network segmentation and East-West controls.
• Strong knowledge of Layer 3–7 networking concepts.
• Ability to design and enforce firewall policies.
• Experience mapping application dependencies (ADM).
• Experience with least privilege security models.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise micro segmentation across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Provide technical leadership on secure architectures aligned with governance and standards.
• Produce high and low level designs with security, resiliency, and documentation.
• Participate in operations, health analysis and incident remediation.
• Advance automation, data & analytics, DevOps, API initiatives within Network Services.
• Create engineering and architecture documents and procedures.

Skills

Zero Trust

Segmentation

Layer 3-7 concepts

Firewall policy

ADM

Least privilege

Tools

Akamai Guardicore

Illumio

Cisco Secure Workload

Tetration

Zero Networks

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.

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.

Job Description:

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?

• 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

• Akamai Guardicore (preferred)
• Illumio
• Cisco Secure Workload / Tetration
• Zero Networks

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

• 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.

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