Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

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. 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 $3.6 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
• Global career development opportunities
• 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

Team Description

The Automation Centre of Excellence is comprised of a team of engineers and analysts providing software development leadership with a specific focus on building and supporting automated solutions solving for heavily manual business processes across all CPP Investments’ business departments, leveraging RPA and Workflow business process automation tools.

As a Senior Engineer, you will help bridge the gap between development and operations, aiding in the smooth delivery of software products. You will contribute to ensuring engineering excellence and continuous improvement within your team. You will automate tasks, set up continuous integration and deployment pipelines, and troubleshoot basic infrastructure challenges to support scalability and reliability.

As a Senior Engineer, you will help lead efforts to design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions, driving automation and efficiency across the software development lifecycle. You will use your expertise in CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud platforms to optimize performance and scalability, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Accountabilities:

• Lead automation of manual processes using enterprise technology platforms to improve operational efficiency and reduce overall risk.
• Maintain the stability and resiliency of existing automations, develop CI/CD pipelines and establish application monitoring.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to understand their applications and streamline the software delivery process, troubleshoot basic issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Document configurations, processes, and best practices, and actively participate in knowledge sharing activities to facilitate collaboration and promote learning within the team.
• Lead pieces of work focused on designing and building of robust, resilient, and scalable DevOps solutions for CI/CD, infrastructure, and logging/monitoring.
• Align teams to the DevOps standards on build, continuous integration, automated deployment, and application monitoring for their applications.
• Help implement reusable frameworks and reference implementations across CI/CD, DevOps, SRE frameworks using Jenkins and Terraform, Ansible, Vault, etc.
• Provide subject matter expertise to teams on industry DevOps practices and mature the practices in CPPIB.
• Build and maintain a catalog of reusable DevOps scripts, tools, and reference implementations.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to understand their applications and streamline the software delivery process, troubleshoot basic issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Document configurations, processes, and best practices, and actively participate in knowledge sharing activities to facilitate collaboration and promote learning within the team.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science).
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools such as UiPath (required)
• Experience with VBA in Excel automation (required)
• Experience with Python and SQL for automation and data processing (preferred)
• Strong knowledge of data management principles, including data integration and transformation.
• Experience automating builds, continuous integrations, deployment processes and monitoring with industry best practices and standards.
• Experience owning pieces of work focused on backend software development and DevOps development.
• 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.
• Deep expertise in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Bash) with experience building software pipelines with various DevOps tools - Terraform, Consul, Vault, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, CI Server (Jenkins, TFS/VSTS), Git, Artifactory, Build tools (maven, gradle, npm, docker etc.).

Additional Information

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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.