Lead Engineer, Backup and Storage

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. 

As a Lead Backup and Storage Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and management of cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions, leveraging your expertise to drive innovation and excellence. You will demonstrate leadership and drive engineering excellence within your team and influence the same across the Technology & Data department.  You will also help orchestrate the optimization, security, cost effectiveness and scalability of backup and storage environments, helping to shape the organization's digital transformation journey.

• Lead the design and architecture of backup and storage infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery Solutions, lead audit and risk assessment investigations.
• Provide guidance to a team of cloud and infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement within the team and influence similar improvements across teams, providing technical leadership and coaching
• Oversee the management and administration of backup and storage platforms, including provisioning and configuration of services, monitoring, optimization, and implementation of security controls and compliance standards.
• Provide L3-level support for storage systems, data backup and hypervisors in hybrid environments. Ensure data availability and integrity for disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Manage appropriately sized engineering projects from inception to completion, including planning, resource allocation, scheduling, and risk management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand business requirements and drive alignment with organizational goals.
• Monitor the performance and health of storage and backup infrastructure, identify areas for optimization and improvement, and implement measures to enhance scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of storage and backup architectures, configurations, and procedures, and promote knowledge sharing within the team and across the organization.

• Bachelor's degree or college diploma in a related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science).
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience with NetApp storage solutions, including NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, as well as Commvault Backup.
• Working knowledge of VMware, Linux/Windows operating systems, Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
• Proven experience with Azure and AWS backup solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong background in backup and storage engineering, with expertise in data protection best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and provide technical mentorship to junior team members.
• Experience implementing and maintaining data governance policies for platforms such as VMware, databases, and cloud compute environments—including data classification, retention, and disposal strategies.
• Expertise in Disaster Recovery (DR) planning, including defining Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), conducting DR drills, and implementing site-to-site replication.
• Proficient in designing and managing enterprise backup architectures (e.g., incremental-forever, synthetic full, deduplication-based backups) to ensure data availability and integrity.
• Solid hands-on experience with storage services across major cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure.
• Certifications such as NetApp NCDA/NCIE, Commvault Certified Professional/Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and credentials in Windows, Linux, and VMware are strong assets.

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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.