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.

The Role:

As Director, DevOps, you will set the strategy, architecture, roadmap and operating model for CPP Investments’ enterprise DevOps platform ecosystem. Reporting to the Managing Director, Cloud Platforms, you will lead a multidisciplinary team and serve as the overall Product Owner and Technology Area Lead for DevOps, advancing engineering excellence, platform adoption, DevSecOps, automation and AI-enabled software delivery across Technology & Data.

The Team:

The Cloud Platforms function provides scalable, resilient and secure technology platforms that enable Technology & Data teams to deliver enterprise capabilities effectively. The DevOps team supports the organization’s modern developer experience by enabling teams to build, secure, test, release and operate software at scale, with accountability for enterprise CI/CD, Quality Engineering tooling, developer tooling, and developer generative AI and agentic capabilities.

Accountabilities

• Own the enterprise DevOps platform, with end-to-end accountability for strategy, product vision, architecture, roadmap and capabilities across CI/CD, Quality Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, secure coding, secrets management, container orchestration, observability, workflow management, developer AI and middleware platforms

• Define and advance DevOps and Quality Engineering maturity across Technology & Data by establishing target practices, success measures and adoption plans that improve how software is built, tested, deployed, observed and operated

• Champion an AI-first approach to software delivery by simplifying, automating and enabling agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle, while establishing appropriate governance, guardrails, cost management and value measurement

• Lead DevSecOps by embedding secure-by-design capabilities, automated quality and security controls, and shift-left practices in partnership with Information Security, while maintaining developer experience and production stability

• Operate the platform as a product by defining roadmaps, initiatives, OKRs and measures for developer experience, cycle time, adoption, reliability, performance, change failure rate, recovery time, automation coverage and value realization

• Maintain accountability for platform availability, resiliency, observability, capacity, incident response, operational readiness, audit support, remediation, vendor performance, contracts, licensing and cost optimization

• Lead, coach, recruit and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team, including managed service partners, while building strong relationships with senior technology and business stakeholders to drive enterprise adoption and organizational change

What You Bring

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science or a related field

• Ten or more 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 enterprise technologies such as AWS, Terraform, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Artifactory, Argo CD, Elastic Observability, Jira, Jira Align and Confluence

• Demonstrated experience advancing DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, developer experience and AI-enabled software delivery while maintaining delivery speed, software quality, usability and production stability

• Proven people leadership, stakeholder influence, vendor management and financial management experience, including ownership of roadmaps, technology lifecycle, contracts, licensing, budgets and cost optimization

• Experience leading Agile product delivery and engineering practices; experience in financial services, asset management, pension management or another complex enterprise technology environment is 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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CPP Investments is committed to a secure and transparent recruitment process. We will never ask candidates for payment or financial information at any stage of hiring. All legitimate opportunities are posted on our careers page, and communications will come from our applicant tracking system, Workday. 

CPP Investments may use AI tools to help screen and assess applicants by analyzing resumes and applications for relevant skills and experience. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making.

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