Senior Platform Engineer, China Technology Centre
Sun Life Financial2 days ago
Beijing, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain cloud platform architectures, technology standards, design principles, and platform roadmaps.
- Design and govern cloud platforms, landing zones, infrastructure services, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Lead architecture and design reviews for secure, resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and standards-aligned solutions.
- Translate business, operational, security, and regulatory requirements into cloud platform solutions and implementation guidance.
- Support project teams with technical expertise, architecture recommendations, and resolution of complex platform and integration challenges.
- Incorporate security, resilience, data protection, monitoring, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements into platform designs.
- Identify technology risks, assess impacts, and implement appropriate controls.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architecture guidance to engineering teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive continuous improvement in platform engineering practices and operational effectiveness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Postgraduate qualifications are an asset.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive technology experience, including at least 5 years in cloud platform engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
- Experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise-scale cloud platforms, including networking, identity and access management, security, observability, automation, and platform operations.
- Strong experience with cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, application migration, and DevSecOps practices.
- Deep knowledge of Alibaba Cloud architecture, cloud platform services, networking, identity and access management, security controls, observability, and cloud governance.
- Advanced understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, performance optimization, scalability, resilience, and cloud cost management.
- Knowledge of technology security, risk management, regulatory compliance, data protection, and operational controls in regulated enterprise environments.
- Experience with architecture governance, enterprise integration, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, technology standards, and technical leadership across complex technology landscapes.
- Relevant certifications such as Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional or Expert, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, TOGAF, or equivalent cloud and architecture certifications are highly desirable.
Benefits
- Sun Life offers a high-performance, caring, and inclusive culture focused on wellbeing, collaboration, accountability, continuous growth, and meaningful impact.
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About Sun Life Financial
Sun Life Financial provides life and health insurance, group benefits, retirement solutions, and asset management services for individuals, employers, and institutional investors. It generates revenue from insurance premiums and investment management fees, including through MFS Investment Management and SLC Management. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Sun Life operates across North America and Asia, and its shares trade on the TSX and NYSE under the symbol SLF.