Compute & Storage Platform Owner

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd.; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

In-office days (hybrid)

Career growth in asset management tech

Job summary

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. is seeking a Compute & Storage Platform Owner to lead the compute, storage, virtualization, and container platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments.

This hands-on senior role defines architecture, standards, and guardrails, ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient while collaborating with Security, Operations, and business teams to align workload needs with platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise infrastructure, compute and storage platforms.
• Experience with virtualization platforms and hybrid environments.
• Deep knowledge of storage, backup, replication and recovery.
• Understanding of workload performance, capacity and data lifecycle.
• Experience integrating on-prem with cloud services.
• Ability to define platform architecture, standards and guardrails.
• Clear communicator across technical and business stakeholders.
• Pragmatic, outcome-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve compute, virtualization, storage, and container platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Define architecture, standards, and guardrails for performance, resilience, recoverability, and cost efficiency.
• Define workload hosting, placement, scaling, and lifecycle management practices.
• Own storage and data practices including tiering, retention, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Act as the primary interface to business and engineering teams, translating workload needs into platform capabilities.
• Partner with Security, Operations, and other Platform Owners to align direction and resolve dependencies.
• Guide SMEs on design decisions and ensure alignment with standards.
• Drive platform consistency, reduce fragmentation, and improve consumption models.

Skills

Compute & storage platform ownership

Hybrid environments

Platform architecture

Guardrails & standards

Cross-team collaboration

Cost efficiency

Operational excellence

Hands-on leadership

VMware/Hyper-V experience

Container platforms (Kubernetes)

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Kubernetes

Job description

Interested in joining one of Canada’s top performing asset managers? We are looking for a Compute&StoragePlatform Owner for an existing vacancy inourInfrastructure & Cloud Engineering team.This role owns the Compute & Storage domain, including compute infrastructure, virtualization, enterprise storage, backup and recovery, and container platforms. You will define architecture, standards, and guardrails, ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with strong cross-team impact.Our offices currentlyoperateon a hybrid modelwiththree days in office.

What You Will Do

• Own and evolve compute, virtualization, storage, and container platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments

• Define architecture, standards, and guardrails for performance, resilience, recoverability, and cost efficiency

• Define workload hosting, placement, scaling, and lifecycle management practices

• Own storage and data practices including tiering, retention, backup, and disaster recovery

• Act as the primary interface to business and engineering teams, translating workload needs into platform capabilities

• Partner with Security, Operations, and other Platform Owners to align direction and resolve dependencies

• Guide SMEs on design decisions and ensure alignment with standards

• Drive platform consistency, reduce fragmentation, and improve consumption models

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, compute, and storage platforms

• Strong experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V) and hybrid environments

• Deep knowledge of enterprise storage, backup, replication, and recovery

• Strong understanding of workload performance, capacity, and data lifecycle management

• Experience with container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and modern compute environments

• Practical experience integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud services

• Experience defining platform architecture, standards, and guardrails

• Clear communicator, able to work across technical and business stakeholders

• Pragmatic and outcome-driven mindset

The expectedsalaryfor this position is$130,000 to 140,000 CAD.The salary rangeprovidedreflects the base salary range for this position as required by legislation.In addition, there is an annual performance bonus which contributes to the total compensation for this position. Further questions may be directed to the HR team during the interview process.

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For a closer look at how you can build your career with us, we invite you to explore cclgroup.com.

CC&L Financial Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or age.

Your application will be reviewed by a member of the hiring team - AI is not used in the screening, assessment or selection of applications at this time.