Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Description:

At CGI youll help shape the future of secure scalable digital platforms that power critical services across the UK. As a Platform Engineer you will play a central role in strengthening high-performance environments that enable agile delivery and continuous innovation initially for our major UK Government and Justice clients. You will take ownership of complex platform challenges collaborate closely across multi-disciplinary teams and apply creative problem-solving to drive automation reliability and resilience. Supported by a community of experts you will contribute to modernising platforms that make a real impact while evolving your skills in an environment that values curiosity initiative and continuous growth.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK Best Employer by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary excellent pension private healthcare plus a share scheme (3.5% 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI 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 youll be part of an open friendly community of experts. Well train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Due to the secure nature of the programme you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position with very occasional travel to one of our clients sites in Newcastle Bristol Leeds and Telford.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

In this role you will maintain and enhance secure resilient and scalable platform environments that underpin continuous delivery for multiple teams. You will take ownership of platform health proactively identifying improvements strengthening automation and ensuring the reliability and performance of core systems. Working closely with developers security specialists and infrastructure teams you will help streamline CI/CD pipelines embed secure-by-design practices and support the rapid deployment of high-quality applications.

You will contribute ideas trial new approaches and be supported by a collaborative community as you help drive forward platform innovation operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

Lead & Innovate: Configure manage and optimise platform infrastructure to ensure high availability scalability and resilience.
Develop & Deliver: Build automation for provisioning deployments remediation and system maintenance using IaC and CaC.
Monitor & Enhance: Implement advanced monitoring analyse performance metrics and optimise system capacity.
Secure & Strengthen: Embed security controls throughout environments and CI/CD pipelines ensuring compliance and automated vulnerability detection.
Collaborate & Enable: Work with developers and security teams to streamline deployments and integrate secure DevSecOps practices.
Resolve & Improve: Lead incident triage troubleshoot issues and introduce automated remediation where possible.
Explore & Evolve: Research new technologies and integrate modern practices to uplift platform performance and reliability.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

To succeed you will bring hands-on experience in platform engineering or DevSecOps with strong knowledge of cloud platforms IaC automation tooling and secure development practices. You should be comfortable working across cross-functional teams contributing to continuous improvement and supporting mission-critical environments.

You should have:

Extensive experience in platform engineering DevSecOps or similar roles.
Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure.
Proficiency with container tools (e.g. Docker Docker Swarm).
Expertise with IaC tools (Terraform ARM Templates).
Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps Jenkins) and Git.
Knowledge of monitoring technologies (Prometheus Grafana Dynatrace).
Proficiency in scripting (Python Bash) and CaC tools (e.g. Ansible).
Understanding of cloud and container security automation tooling and frameworks such as OWASP and CIS Benchmarks.


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Skills:

• DevOps
• Jenkins
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform

What you can expect from us:

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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.