Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Description
At CGI, you'll 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. You'll 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 you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll 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. You'll engineer Kubernetes-driven solutions, enhance automation across development and deployment workflows, and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems. You'll 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.

You'll 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, you'll 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, you'll 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.

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.