Lead DevOps Engineer, Engineering

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic investment organization as a Lead DevOps Engineer, where you will drive the design and implementation of scalable infrastructure solutions. You will lead efforts in automating processes across the software development lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize performance. This role offers the chance to work in a hybrid-flexible environment, surrounded by inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders. If you have a passion for innovation and a commitment to integrity, this opportunity is perfect for you. Make an impact and invest your career with a respected institution dedicated to sustainability and diversity.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment

Diverse and inspiring colleagues

Accelerated exposure and responsibility

Stimulating work environment

In-person collaboration opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in automating build and deployment processes.
• In-depth knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD tools, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable DevOps practices.
• Provide expertise on DevOps platforms and industry best practices.
• Analyze and modernize DevOps pipelines for efficiency.

Skills

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

Ansible

Docker

Git

Linux

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Vault

Consul

Elastic Observability

Sonarqube

Docker

Job 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 $3.6trillion 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
• 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 to work on Enterprise platforms that support the entire organization’s product development. As a Lead DevOps 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. 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. You will use your expertise in CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud platforms to optimize performance and scalability, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Take a lead role in designing and building robust and scalable enterprise wide DevOps practices & evangelize devops adoption and maturity across the organization
• AWS or Cloud architect that understand cloud infrastructure design with confidence in building cloud environments on Kubernetes in Terraform managed through a GitOps pipeline
• Hands on delivery and implementation of reusable platform and reference implementations across CI/CD, DevOps, SRE frameworks using Github Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Sonarqube etc.
• Provide subject matter expertise to stakeholders on a variety of DevOps collaborative platforms, industry best practices and emerging trends.
• Experience with Elastic Observability in architecting, optimizing and managing the platform
• Analyze devops pipelines built by users of the DevOps platform to help modernize, migrate and fix any issues or bottlenecks.
• Take initiative to improve the way we do things, and to ensure that we work smart and build quality into everything we do.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• 10+ years hands on experience to automate build, continuous integration and deployment processes with industry best practices and standards.
• In-depth knowledge of Terraform, CI server and orchestrators (Github Actions), Vault, Consul, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Artifactory, Build tools (kubctl, python, npm, docker etc.)
• 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.
• Ability to build software pipelines with Docker, npm, Java, Pypi etc.. with various DevOps tools.
• Hands-on experience in Linux – Mandatory, some Windows based platform knowledge is needed.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS Mandatory
• Must have ability to multi-task.
• Must be detail oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong communicator of technical design and strategy.
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.

At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.