Platform Engineer

Your future duties and responsibilities: As a Platform Engineer at CGI, you’ll be a key member of our cloud-native delivery teams, enabling rapid, continuous delivery of high-quality software for clients across multiple industries. You’ll work hand in hand with developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Cloud Architects, and Security Specialists to design, build, and support resilient, automated environments that drive performance and reliability. In this role, you will: Work closely with software developers, architecture teams, and operations to advise on effective software deployment and platform management.

Operate as a cross-functional engineer within an Agile team, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality releases. Create and manage virtual environments, ensuring scalability and security.

Analyse and automate existing processes to improve efficiency and resilience. Engage with clients to understand requirements and design platform solutions that deliver measurable outcomes. Communicate and advocate for best practices across the platform lifecycle, guiding and mentoring junior engineers.

Key responsibilities: Build & Automate: Develop, maintain, and enhance cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. Collaborate & Integrate: Partner with developers and architects to embed infrastructure best practice into delivery pipelines. Optimise & Support: Troubleshoot and resolve issues across CI/CD pipelines, AWS environments, and networking configurations.

Enable & Mentor: Share knowledge, promote standards, and support the growth of other engineers within the team. Required qualifications to be successful in this role: To succeed in this role, you’ll bring both technical depth and a passion for enabling continuous delivery through automation, collaboration, and innovation. You should have: Experience working in Agile software delivery teams.

Hands-on expertise with cloud-native infrastructure, systems, and security configuration (Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes). Strong practical knowledge of AWS services (EC2, VPC, Security Groups, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch). Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).

Proven troubleshooting skills, including diagnosing pipeline failures, logs, and cloud or network issues. Working knowledge of Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, or Go. Experience with Git source control tools (GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket).

Knowledge of GCP and/or Azure is desirable. Nice to have: Apache Groovy scripting experience. GitHub Actions expertise.

Docker or ECS Fargate knowledge. Skills: BASH GitLab Jenkins Python Terraform What you can expect from us: 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr