Our student and new graduate programs offer a chance to explore Sun Life from the inside. You’ll make a difference in the lives of our customers and communities, while building the skills and experience that allow you to grow in a meaningful and rewarding way.

Job Description:

Sun Life is a global Financial Services company. Our Cloud Operations team are responsible for monitoring, repairing and remediating issues related to Sun Life’s Cloud Services located around the globe. Currently, we are looking for people who are passionate about technology and Cloud and the important role it plays within our organization.

Core competencies/qualities:

• Do you have a passion for technology and Cloud and its services, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn?

• Do you have web development skill set?

• Do you enjoy solving problems? Trying different solutions until you reach the best result? Do you enjoy continuous learning and development?

• Do you thrive collaborating with a team of diverse, inclusive professionals?

• This opportunity is available to students with a December 2026 or later graduation date

Overview of what we do:

Our Cloud Operations team are part of Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) who provide a wide range of services in the Cloud space. From one day to the next you could be building a solution using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), analyzing security or service vulnerabilities and remediating where possible, responding to client requests, updating metadata (AWS tags) on AWS accounts or AWS resources or researching and investigating new solution to help the Cloud Operations team.

Responsibilities/tasks:

As a Cloud Operations student you will be tasked with participating in the below activities.

• Understand and work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Operational support & incident resolution activities

• Build cloud based services and solutions based on defined patterns.

• Work closely with other team members, technical/team leads, management, specialized IT areas and application support teams to ensure that solutions are built to deliver availability, reliability, and scalability. 

• Prioritize and respond to service requests as appropriate. 

• Ensure that solutions we deliver are compliant with all operational and security standards, directives and policies.

• Implement and operationalize new cloud services.

• Develop scripts and functions to support internal processes and improve system performance

• Contribute to front/back-end development of our newly created Cloud First web portal (currently using LAMP stack, migrating to React/TypeScript or converting to Python) that manages our tags for our accounts, resources, service lifecycles, etc.

What is in it for you?

• At Sun Life, you will be joining a purpose driven organization focused on helping Canadian’s achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

• As a student, you’ll make a real impact by contributing to meaningful work, gaining valuable experience and actively working towards your team’s goals.

• You’ll join our unique student culture, designed to help you grow both personally and professionally beyond your role.

• We offer professional development workshops, student awards, socials and many more exciting opportunities.

• We are honored to be recognized as Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates and Canada's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work in 2025.

• Your student journey is just the beginning and we're proud to help many who choose Sun Life to transition into permanent roles after graduation.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted for. The Base Pay which you will be considered for will vary depending on the Campus program you are selected for.

Eligible Sun Life employees for various Campus Graduate programs will also participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance

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! Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

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.

Job Category:

Temporary Employee

Posting End Date:

25/01/2026