Infrastructure Test Automation Engineers

Position Description:

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named one of the Worlds Best Employers by Forbes magazine. 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.

CGIs Space Defence and Intelligence business unit focuses primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for the government agencies most challenging problems. We work build and operate bespoke technically complex mission-critical systems which help our clients keep us all safe and secure. We are currently looking for an experienced Test engineers to join our cross-functional team who in partnership with our clients will help define guide and assure the delivery of integrated solutions. The role offers fantastic opportunities to work within an interesting and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would like candidates to have all the skills we need we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.

Due to the secure nature of this project this role requires candidates to either already hold or be eligible to obtain a high level of UK Security Clearance. To meet the eligibility criteria for this clearance applicants must be sole British nationals have been resident in the UK for the past 10 years and must not have spent more than 28 consecutive days outside the UK within the last five years. Individuals who do not currently hold clearance are still encouraged to apply and will be considered both for this position and for other suitable opportunities within CGI where appropriate.

This role is primarily based on a secure client site and requires attendance on site five days per week due to the sensitive nature of the work and the systems involved. While the position is predominantly site-based there may be occasional flexibility where business needs and security constraints allow. Any such arrangements would be agreed in advance with the project team.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure and Automation Tester / Engineer to join our cross-functional team. You will have the opportunity to work alongside domain experts to design build test and assure next-generation platforms and automation frameworks. This role offers exposure to complex technical challenges innovative environments and highly rewarding work with real impact.

As an Infrastructure & Automation Tester / Engineer within CGI you will:

Build manage and maintain complex test environments to support capability assurance.
Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to provision VM and networking infrastructure.
Develop maintain and reuse configuration playbooks and roles (e.g. Ansible).
Work with internal stakeholders to create and refine test pipelines.
Support ongoing improvements to the test and CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with development teams.
Ensure test results are documented traceable and accessible to stakeholders.
Support automation activities through the design development and maintenance of automation frameworks and environments.
Work with testers to integrate scripts and ensure results feed into monitoring dashboards.
Participate in agile ceremonies team meetings retrospectives and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Liaise directly with Client stakeholders including Product Owners and Systems Design Authorities.
Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team and wider client organisations.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Infrastructure & Automation
Docker
Ansible
VMWare
Bash
Python & Pytest
Git / GitLab Enterprise
Experience deploying virtualised workloads with L3/L4 networking
Skilled with automation tools such as Robot Framework Go or vCentre
Platforms & Systems
Experience with RedHat/CentOS Linux (sysadmin & Bash) or Windows (sysadmin & PowerShell)
Tooling
Jenkins
InfluxDB
Grafana
Understanding of containerisation & orchestration (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift)

Desired Competencies
vCentre
Terraform
Splunk
JavaScript
Atlassian toolset
Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Cloud Practitioner)
Test management tools (TestRail X-Ray)
Dashboarding with ELK Stack (Elastic/Logstash/Kibana)
Selenium Cypress or Playwright
Broader infrastructure or software testing experience

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Skills:

• DevOps Engineering
• Behaviour Driven Development
• Linux

What you can expect from us:

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