DEVOPS ENGINEER

Position Description.
Unleash your potential and help shape the future, join us as a DevOps Engineer.
If you’ve demonstrable success in a similar position, that has involved utilising your technical capabilities alongside strong soft skills, we would love to hear from you.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine.
We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (% matching), which makes you a CGI member partner, not just an employee.
We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant.
Join us, and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts and we will train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go This role offers the ability to work from home with travel to your local CGI office / client site, as required.
Your future duties and responsibilities.
You will be an experienced DevOps Engineer and be an important part of cloud-native software delivery teams for clients across multiple industries.
Our DevOps Engineers work as part of close-nit teams with Software Developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Cloud Architects, Security specialists etc.
with the same shared objective; rapid, continuous delivery of high-quality code.
As a DevOps Engineer here at CGI, you will be the engine that makes the team function, enabling practitioners through automated tools, testing, orchestration techniques and communication to satisfy customers.
This role involves.
• Work closely with colleagues, mentoring software developers, architecture teams and operators within an organisation to teach them how to deploy software that is easily scalable • Work as a cross functional engineer as part of an Agile team • Collaborate with IT and security teams to ensure quality releases • Create and manage virtual environments • Analyse and automate existing processes • Engage with clients, or their representatives, to understand underlying requirements • For our Senior DevOps Engineers; clearly communicate the characteristics of the DevOps Lifecycle, being able to advise what good looks like and supporting and guiding junior members of the team Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
Firstly, our DevOps Engineers need a mix of “soft” and “hard” skills.
We are looking for strong interpersonal and communications skills (verbal and written) as well as tooling and technical skills.
Secondly, our DevOps Engineers must be team players, supporting their colleagues throughout sprints or software iterations.
We are looking for skills to mentor and advise team members on the best ways to deliver code through a pipeline, what tools to use and how to test the latest features.
You will have ability with a combination of some of the following technologies.
• Experience working in Agile development teams • Experience working with and administering GitLab • Hands on working knowledge of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and supporting infrastructure, system, and security configurations and policies.
– Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes • Hands on working knowledge of GCP, AWS and/or Azure services and technologies • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages.
Shell, Ruby/JRuby, Perl, Python, PowerShell, Java, Go, Bash • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science or equivalent experience.
Any of the following are useful, but not essential.
• Data Lake / Warehousing experience • AI / ML experience • Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
What you can expect from us.
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging.
Here, you’ll reach your full potential because… You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life.
That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees.
We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value.
You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last.
You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.