Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Description:

At CGI youll help shape the future of cyber defence by engineering the modern platforms. This role gives you the opportunity to build cloud-native containerised solutions that strengthen national security while driving meaningful technical innovation. Youll work at the heart of a collaborative engineering community enhancing reliability scalability and automation across complex environments. Here you can take real ownership of high-impact solutions bring creative thinking to modern delivery practices and grow your career with the support of experienced technologists who value curiosity initiative and shared success.

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.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

In this role you will design build and operate modern Linux-based containerised platforms that underpin advanced cyber-defence capability. Youll engineer Kubernetes-driven solutions enhance automation across development and deployment workflows and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver resilient scalable systems. Youll take ownership of platform performance apply creative problem-solving to drive continuous improvement and be supported by a highly skilled community as you develop new approaches to cloud-native engineering.

Youll also contribute to the integration configuration and testing of systems translating detailed business and technical requirements into robust software and platform functionality. As systems evolve youll help shape their lifecycle management ensuring operational excellence across complex mission-critical environments.

Key responsibilities:

Engineer & Orchestrate: Build enhance and operate Linux-based Kubernetes platforms.

Automate & Optimise: Develop scripts pipelines and tooling that streamline delivery and operations.

Operate & Troubleshoot: Maintain system health diagnose issues and support continuous availability.

Integrate & Configure: Convert specifications into functional capabilities through development and configuration.

Collaborate & Deliver: Work in Agile teams to improve workflows performance and reliability.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

To succeed youll bring strong experience in Linux systems engineering container orchestration automation and cloud-native delivery paired with a practical understanding of modern DevOps toolchains and iterative delivery approaches.

You should have:

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Linux-based platform engineering.

Strong scripting and automation capability (Python preferred).

Familiarity with AWS Azure GCP or secure on-prem cloud equivalents.

Solid understanding of networking concepts (routing DNS firewalls service mesh).

Experience with Elastic for monitoring logging and observability.

Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD and wider DevOps toolchains.

Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical issues with a continuous improvement mindset.

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Skills:

• Kubernetes
• GitLab
• Linux
• OpenShift

What you can expect from us:

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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.