Position Description:
Secure Innovation is part of CGI’s Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit, focused primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for the our client's most challenging problems.
Our teams work alongside our clients to help them understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage.
We require a Infrastructure Engineer / Architect to work as part of the Consulting Unit, on a diverse set of projects delivering on prem, cloud and niche solutions.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
They will be working on a highly secure hyprid on-prem / cloud projects. The role is on an established fast-moving DevSecOps team, on on-prem, remote and multi-cloud infrastructure, using a multitude of technologies including CloudFormation, Ansible and Terraform, Ubuntu and Windows, VPNs, firewalls, VMs, laptops, MFA, AD, monitoring, network performance, resilience and security design, plus some integration scripting and application configuration and management.
We are heavily committed to developing our staff and will 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 like candidates to have all of the mandatory requirements, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Ideally 3 years of experience of Infrastructure engineering - design, build, deploy, test and support
• Deployment across on prem and cloud infra
• Kubernetes, Containerisation, Platform Engineering
• Kubernetes architecture - pods, services, deployments and networking, software defined networking
• Scripting, e.g. Python/Shell
• Experience of Docker, including image creation, container management (including security patching) and orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
• Experience of cloud compute - AWS, GCP or Azure (primarily AWS)
• GitOps tooling such as Argo CD
• Infra security, compliance and governance
• Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem and building platforms on top of Kubernetes
• Container orchestration tools, e.g. Docker Swarm / Apache Mesos
• Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies, e.g. Istio / Linkerd
• Experience of monitoring tools, e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Rounded problem-solving skills - troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure related issues
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work across a diverse set of stakeholders, across multiple sites
• Experience with agile development methodologies and tooling such as Git
Skills:
1. Cloud Computing
2. Grafana
3. Infrastructure as a Code
4. Kubernetes
5. Network Architecture
6. Prometheus
7. Infrastructure architecture