DevOps Platform Lead, Cloud & Digital Workplace

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $ trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here.

Job Description

The Cloud & DevOps team hiring a Lead Engineer, to work on Enterprise platforms that support the entire organization’s product development. The role will including architecting, building, supporting and communicating DevOps and Observability platforms using a stack of cloud native tools including EKS, Terraform, Github Actions, Elastic Observability and Ansible.

As a Lead Engineer, you will lead efforts to design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions, driving automation and efficiency across the software development lifecycle. You will demonstrate leadership and drive engineering excellence within your team and influence the same across the Technology & Data department. You will use your expertise in CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud platforms to optimize performance and scalability, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Accountabilities:

• Lead the design and build of robust, resilient, and scalable DevOps solutions for CI/CD, Infrastructure, and Logging/Monitoring.
• Align teams to the DevOps standards on build, continuous integration, automated deployment, and application monitoring for their applications.
• Implement reusable frameworks and reference implementations across CI/CD, DevOps, SRE frameworks using Jenkins and Terraform, Ansible, Vault, etc.
• Analyze Infrastructure automation code and communicate detailed reviews to developers to ensure alignment with standards.
• Provide subject matter expertise to teams on industry DevOps practices and mature the practices in CPPIB.
• Build and maintain a catalog of increasingly complex and reusable DevOps scripts, tools, and reference implementations.
• Lead appropriately scoped DevOps projects, defining scope, timelines, and deliverables, ensuring successful project execution.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline the software delivery process, troubleshoot issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field ( Engineering, Computer Science).
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience automating builds, continuous integrations, deployment processes and monitoring with industry best practices and standards.
• Experience owning pieces of work focused on backend software development and DevOps development.
• Ability to provide concise and persuasive reasons on the established standards and guidelines to the application teams that have various levels of knowledge on the topics.
• Deep expertise in multiple languages ( Java, Python, Bash) with experience building software pipelines with various DevOps tools - Terraform, Consul, Vault, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, CI Server (Jenkins, TFS/VSTS), Git, Artifactory, Build tools (maven, gradle, npm, docker etc.).