APAC Cloud DevOps Lead — AWS, Automation & Resilience

Sun Life Financial; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life Financial is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps professional to design, deploy, and optimize secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for enterprise applications. The role emphasizes automation, governance, and cost efficiency while aligning with business and security teams.

The candidate should bring extensive cloud experience, hands-on AWS expertise (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC), and strong collaboration skills to support operational stability and continuous improvement across environments.

Qualifications

• 8–11 years of total IT experience, including cloud infra, cloud engineering, platform operations, architecture support, or enterprise technology delivery.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architecture.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in AWS services including EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, load balancing, monitoring, and logging.
• Experience supporting cloud governance, architecture standards, security controls, cost management, and optimization practices.
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure, Google Cloud, or equivalent are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications.
• Administer existing AWS infrastructure and support deployment of EC2 instances, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and related cloud services.
• Develop, implement, and maintain configurations for cloud services including compute, storage, networking, IAM, databases, backup, monitoring, and logging.
• Monitor cloud resources for availability, performance, utilization, security, and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure, networking, deployment, access, and service availability issues across environments.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable and compliant cloud solutions.
• Contribute to automation, standardization, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement of cloud operations.

Skills

AWS cloud expertise

Automation scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Security & compliance

Communication & collaboration

Job description

Sun Life Financial is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps professional to design, deploy, and optimize secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for enterprise applications. The role emphasizes automation, governance, and cost efficiency while aligning with business and security teams.

The candidate should bring extensive cloud experience, hands-on AWS expertise (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC), and strong collaboration skills to support operational stability and continuous improvement across environments.