DevOps Engineer

United Kingdom, zINACTIVATE - Greater London, London

Secure Innovation is part of CGI’s Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit, focused on delivering contemporary and innovative technical solutions to complex challenges faced by government agencies.

The team works with clients to understand, adopt, and exploit emerging technologies to maintain strategic and operational advantage. Systems are engineered for performance, security, reliability, and scalability using modern cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps practices, and CI/CD tooling.

This role offers the opportunity to work on leading-edge and bespoke technologies in a mission-focused environment, with a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Design, build, implement, and support secure and scalable DevOps solutions across complex cloud and hybrid environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, deployment, and release processes.
• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
• Support containerised and orchestrated environments using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, security, and client teams to improve platform reliability, automation, and operational maturity.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code, automation tooling, and configuration management solutions.
• Support secure cloud adoption and operational best practices across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment, infrastructure, and platform-related issues across development and production environments.
• Create and maintain technical designs, operational documentation, standards, and implementation artefacts.

• Minimum of 7 years’ commercial experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related engineering disciplines.
• Proven experience leading DevOps teams and mentoring junior engineers.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience designing, building, and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Bamboo, GitLab CI/CD, or cloud-native equivalents.
• Strong hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience scripting and automating solutions using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Experience producing technical designs, architecture documentation, and operational documentation.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively and work through complex technical challenges.
• Passion for learning emerging technologies and driving innovation.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite at the client location five days per week.
• Must already hold current HLC clearance.
• Due to client security requirements, only candidates meeting the required clearance criteria will be considered.

• Previous experience working within secure, government, defence, or highly regulated environments will be highly regarded.

• Learning and development opportunities to keep skills aligned with the evolving technology landscape.
• Ownership culture from day one as CGI Partners.
• Opportunity to shape company strategy and direction through collective success.
• Access to global capabilities, expansive industry and technology expertise, and new opportunities.
• Support from leaders who care about health and well-being.
• Opportunities to deepen skills and broaden horizons.