Position Description:
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. 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.
CGI’s Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit, focuses primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for the government agencies most challenging problems. We work, build, and operate bespoke, technically complex, mission-critical systems which help our clients keep us all safe and secure. We are currently looking for an experienced Automation Framework Engineer to join our cross-functional team to guide, assure and deliver integrated solutions. This will be in partnership with our clients. This role offers fantastic opportunities to work within an interesting, innovative and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation, collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would prefer candidates to have all the skills we need, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.
Our roles are only available if you hold a UK Security Clearance and are a sole UK National due to the secure nature of the project. You will either hold a higher level clearance or be willing to obtain it. Any individual without security clearance is welcome to apply and will always be considered for this or wider opportunities in CGI, where appropriate. The position is suitable for some office or home-based work but due to the secure access of systems, this position will require onsite attendance in Gloucester.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
As an Automation Framework Engineer within the SDI business unit, you will apply your technical expertise to create and maintain automation environments. These environments will enable our customers to validate their applications and services, linking into and providing ongoing support from our infrastructure project. Your work and developments will allow our clients to focus on more unique problems to increase their speed to market.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
- Design, develop & maintain the frameworks and automation environments.
- Work with testers to ensure their scripts run and that results integrate with dashboards.
- Participate in agile ceremonies, including team meetings, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Participate in knowledge sharing sessions involving the team, our partners and our clients.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Hands on experience at deploying virtualised workloads with L3/L4 networking.
- Skilled in configuration and automation tools such as Robot Framework, Go, vCentre Networks.
- Experience of RedHat or CentOS Linux (System Admin and Bash) and or Windows (System Admin and PowerShell).
- Use of tooling such as Jenkins, InfluxDB and Grafana.
- Experience of containerisation and orchestration technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift.
Desired competencies:
- Experience of infrastructure engineering on Cloud platforms and technologies e.g. such as AWS Cloud Practitioner.
- Understanding of software and infrastructure testing.
- Understanding of test management tools, e.g. TestRail and or X-Ray.
- Creation and configuration of reporting dashboards with Splunk and or ELK stack.
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Skills:
1. Behaviour Driven Development
2. DevOps Engineering
3. Linux