Director, DevOps

Purpose. Performance. People.

Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians. With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets. Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide. For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance. Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.

Role Summary

The DevOps team enables Technology & Data teams to build, secure, test, release, and operate software at scale. The team owns the enterprise CI/CD platform, Quality Engineering (QE) tooling, developer tooling, and developer GenAI and agentic capabilities supporting a modern, efficient and secure developer experience. Reporting to the Managing Director, Cloud Platforms, the Director, DevOps will set the strategy, architecture, roadmap, and operating model for the enterprise DevOps platform ecosystem. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and act as the overall Product Owner (PO) and Technical Area Lead (TAL) for the DevOps platform across the enterprise, with particular emphasis on driving DevOps maturity and GenAI adoption throughout Technology & Data. Your impact will extend beyond your direct team as you influence engineering excellence, platform adoption, automation, DevSecOps, and AI-enabled software delivery.

Accountabilities

• Own the enterprise DevOps Platform, with end‑to‑end accountability for its strategy, product vision, architecture, roadmap, and platform capabilities across CI/CD, Quality Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, secure coding, secrets management, container orchestration, observability, workflow management, developer GenAI, and middleware platforms.
• Assess and advance DevOps and Quality Engineering maturity across Technology & Data by defining target practices and success measures, identifying capability gaps, and driving adoption of engineering excellence, automation, platform capabilities, and modern ways of working to improve how software is built, tested, validated, deployed, observed, and operated.
• Champion an AI‑first approach to software delivery by challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, and agentize workflows across the software development lifecycle. Drive enterprise adoption of developer GenAI capabilities while establishing appropriate governance and guardrails, managing token economics, and demonstrating value realization.
• Lead DevSecOps by embedding secure coding and shift‑left security practices into the software‑development lifecycle through secure‑by‑design platform capabilities, automated quality and security controls, and close partnership with Information Security, while maintaining an excellent developer experience and production stability.
• Treat the DevOps platform as a product and align with Tech & Data’s product operating model. Define initiatives, product roadmap and OKRs, establish and track measures for developer experience, cycle time, platform adoption, reliability, performance, change failure rate, recovery time, automation coverage and value realization to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain accountability for platform availability, resiliency, observability, capacity, incident response, operational readiness, internal audit support, and timely remediation of audit findings.
• Partner with senior technology and business stakeholders to align platform strategy, communicate priorities and trade‑offs, and advance organizational adoption of DevOps maturity, engineering excellence, and platform capabilities.
• Own vendor and contract management, including vendor selection, negotiations, renewals, licensing, service performance, roadmap influence, and cost optimization.
• Lead, coach, recruit, and develop a high‑performing team, including managed service partners, establish clear accountabilities and performance expectations, and build team resilience.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science).
• 10+ years of relevant technology experience, including progressive leadership responsibility in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Quality Engineering, cloud engineering, developer experience or software engineering.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Quality Engineering, including CI/CD, test automation, cloud‑native engineering, observability, secrets management, container deployment, Infrastructure as Code, and software delivery controls.
• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Artifactory, Argo CD, Elastic Observability, Jira, Jira Align, Confluence and comparable enterprise developer and Quality Engineering platforms.
• Demonstrated experience advancing DevSecOps and Quality Engineering while maintaining platform usability, delivery speed, software quality, and production stability.
• Experience introducing GenAI, coding assistants or agentic capabilities into enterprise software development workflows, with an AI‑first mindset and demonstrated ability to drive adoption at enterprise scale. Familiarity with AI‑native software development tools and agentic engineering workflows, skills, and other emerging developer AI capabilities.
• Strong platform‑as‑a‑product and developer experience mindset, using developer experience, operational, quality and engineering metrics to guide product decisions and continuous improvement.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities, with demonstrated initiative and the ability to drive changes in practices, behaviours and organizational capabilities beyond the direct team.
• Proven people leadership, vendor management and financial management experience, including ownership of product roadmaps, technology lifecycle, contracts, licensing, budgets and cost optimization.
• Experience leading Agile product delivery and engineering practices, with the ability to drive planning, prioritization, continuous improvement and value‑based delivery.
• Experience in financial services, asset management, pension management or another complex enterprise technology environment is considered an asset.

You are motivated to contribute to something larger than yourself, approach complex challenges with rigor, and hold yourself to high standards in a collaborative, performance‑driven environment. We provide colleagues with cutting‑edge AI tools, dedicated learning time and practical support to help them deliver with greater impact.

Inclusion & Accessibility

CPP Investments is committed to equitable access to employment and building a workforce that reflects diverse talent and perspectives. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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