DevOps Engineers (DV Security Clearance)

Position Description:

At CGI, we build secure, mission-critical systems that help shape the future of the UK’s most important industries. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering resilient, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure that enables innovation and operational excellence for our clients. Working within collaborative, cross-functional teams, you’ll have the opportunity to influence modern engineering practices, automate complex environments, and contribute to meaningful solutions with real-world impact. We empower our teams to take ownership, explore new ideas, and continuously develop their skills within a supportive environment where your contributions are recognised and your career can thrive.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 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.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

In this role, you will design, build, and support secure infrastructure solutions that underpin critical services and applications. You’ll work closely with developers, testers, and platform teams to improve automation, streamline deployments, and enhance system reliability across complex environments. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute ideas, influence engineering approaches, and help drive continuous improvement initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes for clients.

You’ll play an important role in modernising infrastructure and deployment practices, supporting containerised environments, and ensuring systems remain secure, scalable, and resilient. Working within agile teams, you’ll be encouraged to develop your expertise, take ownership of key deliverables, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities
-Design & Maintain secure, scalable infrastructure solutions
-Automate & Optimise deployment and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code
-Collaborate & Deliver with cross-functional agile teams to support CI/CD practices
-Support & Troubleshoot applications and infrastructure environments
-Deploy & Enhance containerised platforms including Kubernetes and Docker
-Improve & Monitor system reliability, resilience, and performance
-Contribute & Innovate through continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

To succeed in this role, you should have experience working within DevOps or platform engineering environments, with a strong understanding of automation, infrastructure, and continuous delivery practices. You’ll be a proactive and collaborative problem solver, comfortable working within agile teams and eager to learn new technologies. Experience supporting secure or highly regulated environments would be beneficial.

Essential qualifications

-Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
-Familiarity with container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
-Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
-Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems
-Exposure to cloud and modern platform engineering practices
-Scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash, Java, or Go
-Familiarity with source control tools such as Git
-Strong communication and collaboration skills within agile environments
-UK Security Clearance / Developed Vetting (DV) or eligibility to undergo clearance

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Skills:

• Amazon Web Services Cloud
• Cloud Computing
• Dev/Tools Infrastructure Supp
• DevOps
• DevOps Engineering
• DevOps Engineering