DevOps Intern - Summer 2026 bei Sunlife

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. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families, and communities around the world.

What’s it like to work at Sun Life?

You’ll find it dynamic and highly professional; collaborative and supportive. We encourage career mobility. Sun Life is also a socially responsible employer, supporting the communities in which we live and work, with a globally recognized commitment to the environment and sustainability.

This Internship will be hybrid, and students must be located near one of our U.S. offices – Wellesley, MA; Kansas City, MO; Hartford, CT; Portland, ME; Milwaukee, WI.

The Role

We are seeking a motivated and curious individual to join our DevOps team as an intern. In this hybrid role, you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in various aspects of our technology operations, including maturing DevOps practices.

This internship is designed to provide a well-rounded experience in the Engineering and Product organization. By the end of the placement, you will have gained valuable insights into the various aspects of our technology operations and be better equipped to pursue a career in the technology industry.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze release process for various squads

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines

• Research new tools and capabilities

Core skill sets needed for this role:

• Proficient with maintaining and creating CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with software development life cycle and related tooling

• Exposure to CI servers like Cloudbees Jenkins, open-source Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube and others - and their application to create CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with code repositories such as Bitbucket, Github

• Responsible for supporting end-to-end delivery of DevOps activities

• Good collaborative and interpersonal skills with a willingness to learn

• Pro-active team player who can also work independently

• Experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines.

• Exposure to writing and implementing Ansible playbooks

• Knowledge of Build Tools like Gradle, ANT, Maven

• Exposure to WebSphere Liberty servers

• Knowledge about microservices and their pipelines

• Proficiency in dealing with Java based applications with Gradle/Maven

• Knowledge around scripting languages like Groovy, Bash and GO

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Good to have knowledge about node/react based CI/CD pipeline

• Experience in designing and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines for new software projects, right from project kickoff to production deployment and maintenance

• Understanding of the DevSecOps ecosystem

• Good to have exposure to security testing tools (eg SCA, SAST, etc)

The Candidate

To be eligible for this internship at Sun Life, you must meet the following requirements:

• Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university during the time of the internship (June 2026 - August 2026)

• Currently pursuing a degree in a related area

• Eligible to legally work in the United States

• Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) during intern session

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive.  We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate.  We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

We will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of otherwise-qualified individuals with disabilities or special disabled veterans, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please email [email protected] to request an accommodation.

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We do not require or administer lie detector tests as a condition of employment or continued employment.

Sun Life will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including applicable fair chance ordinances.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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