Lead Engineer, Cloud Foundation, Cloud & Digital Workplace

• Full-time
• Function: Information Technology

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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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
• 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

Role Specific Accountabilities:

• Reporting to the Director, Cloud Foundation Platforms, this role is a key member of a high performance, agile and fun Cloud team to develop and engineer the firm’s Cloud Foundation product (the firm’s AWS cloud native platform).
• Lead the continuous development and improvement of Cloud Foundation product capabilities, cost optimization, reliability, security posture and user experience.
• Partner with team members and other teams to define, design and implement AWS best practices, IAM policies, Key/Secret management, security guardrails, cloud security tools.
• Develop Terraform templates for various AWS services and patterns aligning to the firm’s cloud standards.
• Partner with team members to build and migrate to new version of Cloud Foundation CI/CD platform, maintain and improve AWS account factory, EC2/Container image factory.
• Advocate and drive adoption of cloud and DevOps culture, present in various internal forums and sessions on product releases, best practices, and provide consulting, guidance and implementation assistance to users/application teams.
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and Data Engineering teams to develop patterns and accelerators for onboarding applications and enhancement to Cloud Foundation.
• Partner with Operations team to provide operational transition and support any escalations.
• Provide strong influence and contribute to the firm’s Cloud Community of Practice and Knowledge Advantage programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering, Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering preferred.
• 10+ years infrastructure and/or applications development experience.
• 5+ years experience on engineering AWS infrastructure with relevant services: IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, KMS, VPC, Cognito, Config, SCP, CloudTrail, VPC Endpoint.
• 3+ years experience on CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps platforms: Terraform, Ansible, Github, Jenkins/AWS Codebuild, Vault, ELK stack.
• Hands on experience on container technologies, such as EKS, Docker, service mesh.
• Good knowledge on AWS networking services such as Transit Gateway, Route 53, firewall.
• Demonstrated product mindset, including innovation, user oriented, business acumen, eager to drive continuous improvement, automation, optimization, mindful of cost implications from cloud.
• Attention to detail, pursuit for precision and accuracy with “can do” mindset.
• End to end thinking with whole stack holistic view.
• Eager to learn new technologies with strong curiosity, think out of the box.
• Strong influencer to drive peers’ cultural and behavioral change.
• Exemplifies CPP Investments’ 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.