Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer at CGI

Company Profile:

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 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 cgi.com.

Role Overview:

The Senior DevOps Engineer will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platforms. This role focuses on CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across multi-cloud environments.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or CircleCI.
• Architect and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Drive Kubernetes platform architecture and operations (AKS, EKS, GKE), including cluster design, networking, autoscaling, upgrades, and governance.
• Implement GitOps frameworks using ArgoCD or Flux for automated, declarative deployments.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, patching, and container orchestration.
• Ensure environments (DEV, QA, UAT, PROD) follow security, compliance, and best-practice configuration standards.
• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and PaaS components.
• Own observability strategy: logs, metrics, traces using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or Datadog.
• Implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, playbooks, and automated incident remediation.
• Champion DevSecOps by integrating code scanning, container security, secrets management, and policy-as-code (OPA, Conftest).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (cloud, security, development, architecture) to accelerate software delivery.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, pipeline, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud issues.
• Provide best practices for versioning, branching strategy, release management, and rollback strategies.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and improve team capabilities through training, documentation, and standards.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization for cloud resources.

Required Skills & Experience

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, pipeline, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud issues.
• Provide best practices for versioning, branching strategy, release management, and rollback strategies.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and improve team capabilities through training, documentation, and standards.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization for cloud resources.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, networking, storage, serverless, and PaaS components.
• Champion DevSecOps by integrating code scanning, container security, secrets management, and policy-as-code (OPA, Conftest).

Behavioural Competencies

• Proven experience of delivering process efficiencies and improvements.
• Clear and fluent English (both verbal and written).
• Ability to build and maintain efficient working relationships with remote teams.
• Demonstrate ability to take ownership of and accountability for relevant products and services.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and complete your own work, whilst remaining a team player.
• Willingness to engage with and work in other technologies.

Life at CGI

CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

It 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. Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Key skills/competency

• CI/CD Automation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Kubernetes
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• DevSecOps
• Multi-cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Terraform & Ansible
• Troubleshooting
• Mentoring & Team Leadership