Position Description:
At CGI, you’ll play a vital role in delivering secure, mission-critical solutions that protect and enable our clients’ most important operations. In this role, your work will directly shape how complex applications are deployed, tested, and evolved within a modern containerised environment, helping to reduce risk and accelerate delivery on a high-profile defence programme. You’ll join a collaborative team where your ideas are valued, your ownership drives real outcomes, and you’re supported to innovate, grow, and make a tangible impact through high-quality engineering and shared success.
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. This position will require being on site 5 days a week in our Leatherhead office.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
In this role, you will work closely with CGI colleagues and partner suppliers to deploy a Linux-based container platform and integrate existing application container images into a secure defence environment. You will take ownership of deployment activities, helping to de-risk solutions through hands-on delivery, while contributing to a culture that encourages continuous improvement and shared problem solving.
You will also help evolve manual installation steps into robust, repeatable, and automated processes, ensuring deployments are reliable, maintainable, and scalable. Throughout, you’ll be supported by experienced engineers while having the freedom to shape better ways of working.
Key responsibilities include:
- Deploy & Integrate containerised application components for testing and assurance
- Consolidate & Standardise installation steps into repeatable processes
- Automate & Improve deployment workflows using scripts and tooling
- Collaborate & Communicate with multi-supplier teams to support successful delivery
- Test & Validate application deployments within a secure Linux environment
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
You will have a solid foundation in Linux and software development, with experience working in collaborative engineering teams. You should be comfortable learning new tools, improving deployment approaches, and contributing ideas to enhance delivery quality within a secure environment.
Essential qualifications:
- You should have good experience working with Linux systems
- Strong software development or scripting experience
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes
- Proven ability to work effectively within a team and communicate clearly
- Willingness to work full-time from CGI’s Leatherhead office (5 days per week)
- Sole UK nationality with SC Clearance, or eligibility to obtain it
Desirable experience:
- Deployment automation and Linux scripting
- Java development experience
- Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
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Skills:
1. Container Technology
2. Linux