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Position Description:
Company Profile:
Founded in 1976 CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94000 consultants and professionals across the globe CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at .
Job Title: Architect
Position: Technical Architect
Experience: 9 - 12 Years
Category: Cloud Architect
Shift: General
Main location: India TN Chennai
Position ID: J0825-1570
Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 9 years of relevant experience.
Position Description: Works independently under limited supervision and applies knowledge of subject matter in Applications Development. Possess sufficient knowledge and skills to effectively deal with issues challenges within field of specialization to develop simple applications solutions. Second level professional with direct impact on results and outcome.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Technical & Behavioral CompetenciesQualification & Experience:
5 years in architecture or senior engineering roles with 3 years designing and operating workloads on Cloud in production environments.
Mandatory Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of Cloud services and constructs such as VPC VSI ROKS/OpenShift Kubernetes Cloud Databases Object Storage (COS) Monitoring and Log Analysis.
- Proven experience designing for high availability disaster recovery and continuity including multi-zone/region architectures backup/restore and RTO/RPO planning.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform IBM Cloud Schematics) CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
- Solid foundation in Linux containers networking (firewalls load balancers DNS TLS) and platform operations.
- Strong understanding of security-by-design: IAM/RBAC least privilege workload identity encryption key management vulnerability management and policy enforcement.
- Demonstrated ability to perform architecture reviews document decisions (ADR) assess risks and present trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills; able to conduct training sessions and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SRE practices reliability engineering capacity planning cost optimization and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and internal control environments (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2) and aligning solutions to internal group rules and standards.
- Exposure to API gateways eventing/queues and integration patterns.
- Experience implementing observability stacks and defining SLOs/SLIs.
- Background in incident management postmortems and resilience testing.
- Certifications such as IBM Certified Solution Architect Cloud Red Hat OpenShift CKA/CKAD TOGAF or ITIL.
Responsibilities
- Review and provide actionable feedback on solution architectures proposed ensuring compliance with internal policies security baselines observability standards and production-readiness criteria.
- Validate designs against application continuity objectives including RTO/RPO HA backup DR strategy failover/failback chaos testing readiness and runbook completeness.
- Publish and maintain architecture principles standards guardrails and reference patterns for developers and infrastructure teams; drive adoption across squads.
- Guide implementation teams on provisioning and automation using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices (e.g. Terraform/Schematics pipelines) including environment strategy naming tagging secrets and access control.
- Define production non-functionals and acceptance criteria across reliability performance capacity cost efficiency security compliance networking and operability.
- Partner with Architecture Security SRE and Application teams to resolve design gaps; propose constructive alternatives and trade-offs with clear rationale.
- Represent Production in application design discussions vendor evaluations change advisory boards architecture review committees; clearly articulate Production s position risks and recommended mitigations.
- Develop and deliver information sessions brown bags and enablement on key initiatives new standards and platform capabilities.
- Create and evolve application reference architectures with policy enforcement and controls.
- Ensure observability by design including logging metrics tracing alerting SLOs/SLIs and dashboards; drive readiness checks prior to go-live.
- Contribute to incident postmortems and problem management with architectural remediations and resilience patterns.
- Track emerging internal cloud features and industry best practices; incorporate learnings into standards and roadmaps.
Skills:
- English
- Bitbucket
- GIT
- GIT
- Kubernetes
- Oracle
- Python
What you can expect from us:
Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll 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. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. Youll 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.
Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll 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 teamone of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Employment Type
Full-Time
