APAC CTO Manila - Cloud DevOps

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

Job Description: Job description (heading) / Description du poste (titre)

Cloud Dev Ops is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on AWS cloud services, automation, governance, operational stability, performance, and cost optimization while collaborating with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams.

Preferred skills (heading) / Compétences particulières (titre)

• Strong AWS cloud services knowledge across compute, storage, networking, databases, IAM, monitoring, and security.
• Hands‑on automation and scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Good understanding of infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, configuration management, and cloud operations.
• Knowledge of cloud security, compliance, encryption, access controls, vulnerability management, and monitoring.
• Strong communication, documentation, teamwork, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Continuous learning mindset with adaptability to evolving cloud, automation, and security practices.

Qualifications (heading) / Compétences (titre)

• 8–11 years of total IT experience, including relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, 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 (heading) / Responsabilités (titre)

• 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.

Job Category: IT - Technology Services Posting End Date: 30/12/2026

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