OUR COMPANY BACKGROUND & CULTURE

UPP is the first pension plan of its kind in Ontario’s university sector, proudly serving over 41,000 members across five universities and fourteen sector organizations. Our purpose is to bring greater retirement peace of mind to the university sector by investing with integrity and serving members with care. As a sector-wide plan designed for growth, our doors are open to all Ontario universities.
Together, we’re a team of progressive thinkers and agile doers operating within a fast-paced culture of collaboration and respect. We believe in bringing smart and capable people together to create, solve, and grow with a clear shared vision and values of integrity, inclusivity, ingenuity, and impact. Our culture is intentionally welcoming and purposefully rooted in equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation (EDI&R). We believe diverse teams, perspectives, and lived experiences contribute to better decisions and a better workplace.
As a pension plan, UPP approaches investing through a long-term lens to generate and safeguard value. Our commitment to investing responsibly accounts for material risks that impact our investment portfolio to generate sufficient risk-adjusted returns to meet the pension needs of our members.
Join us in building a bright future for our members, our organization, and each other.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Diploma, undergraduate or graduate degree in Engineering, IT Management or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a SRE, Infrastructure Engineer, or systems engineer with computing, storage, network, and security in a production environment
• 3+ years of experience with GCP or equivalent cloud infrastructure
• 3+ years of DevOps or deployment orchestration experience
• 2+ years of infrastructure-as-code experience with tools like Terraform
• 1-2 years of experience with cloud-managed Kubernetes environments (GKE, AKS, EKS)
• 1-2 years of experience with GitLab and GitLab CI/CD components (eg. Runners)
• Knowledge of cloud networking including VPCs, VPC Firewalls, micro-segmentation patterns and private connectivity
• Experience with creating and testing Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategies
• Experience with Azure Active Directory or equivalent identity providers, and SSO integration
• Experience with Linux, shell scripting and system administration
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as GCP Cloud Ops, Azure Monitor (Log Analytics), DataDog, New Relic, Splunk etc.

THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional individual to join a team of high-performing professionals and make a significant impact on UPP’s cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities.
Reporting to the Data Engineering Lead, the DevOps Engineer, will streamline our GCP deployments with infrastructure-as-code, maintain our CI/CD pipelines, and implement monitoring and resiliency practices to ensure reliable, scalable services across UPP’s cloud environment.
This role is based in downtown Toronto in a hybrid work environment, allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely and in-office (minimum two days per week in-office).

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following:

• Standardization, automation, and operationalization of cloud deployments in our hosting environment (GCP)
• Building, managing, and running infrastructure-as-code pipelines using Terraform or similar tools.
• Manage and optimize foundational platform components such as networking, security, and organizational policies, with a focus on enabling DevOps-driven delivery of robust data pipelines and enterprise services.
• Implement tools and design processes that help improve monitoring and system resiliency. Monitoring CI/CD pipelines for failures
• Design service level objectives and report on corresponding service-level health indicators
• Designing and implementing network security (VPC, Firewall, VPC-SC) changes in GCP
• Assisting project teams with integration of application pipelines
• Managing our source code and CI/CD platform – GitLab
• Managing GitLab operations including GitFlow change management workflows
• Research and understand industry trends and their applicability to support operational efficiencies for the enterprise
• Effectively communicate technical decision-making processes and solution designs to various audiences
• Contribute to UPP’s reputation as a respectful employer, partner, and participant in the financial secto