Cloud Engineering Specialist – Infrastructure and Automation Expert

Job description

Position Description:

Location: Montreal
Bilingual: French/English

CGI is evolving fast and we're looking for Cloud Engineers to shape the infrastructure backbone of our future. This role blends hands-on cloud automation with engineering best practices and enables scale, resilience, and velocity across public cloud environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work hands-on in designing, building, and enhancing cloud-based architectures, engineering standards, and operational excellence strategies. This role will place you at the heart of innovation, where your deep technical knowledge and strategic thinking will have a tangible impact on both our clients and CGI's future cloud initiatives. If you're a proven leader in your field and ready to shape the future of cloud technology in a dynamic, client-facing environment, we want to hear from you. This is your opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, influence industry-leading transformations, and be part of a collaborative, innovative team at CGI.

Who are You?

You’re hands-on with infrastructure. You’ve written the Terraform scripts, built the pipelines, and stood up the monitoring. You thrive in cloud-native environments and love to make systems reliable, secure, and scalable. You are a strong communicator, equally comfortable in high-level strategic conversations and low-level technical design discussions. You understand what it takes to bridge gaps between business goals and technical execution. With a mindset rooted in continuous learning, you champion modernization, automation, and pragmatic transformation. You are trusted by stakeholders for your sound judgment, admired by peers for your depth of knowledge, and valued by teams for your ability to elevate the work around you. At CGI, we recognize top talent and give it the space and support to thrive.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Deploy, manage, and automate infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP. This includes close collaboration with teams to ensure best practices are shared and adopted.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to support fast, safe deployments. This includes close collaboration with teams to ensure best practices are shared and adopted.
• Maintain high standards for monitoring, security, and availability. This includes close collaboration with teams to ensure best practices are shared and adopted.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and security engineers. This includes close collaboration with teams to ensure best practices are shared and adopted.
• Champion best practices in infrastructure as code and cloud operations. This includes close collaboration with teams to ensure best practices are shared and adopted.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 3+ years in cloud engineering or DevOps roles. A commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to stay at the forefront of industry trends is essential.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. A commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to stay at the forefront of industry trends is essential.
• Solid Linux skills and cloud networking knowledge. A commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to stay at the forefront of industry trends is essential.
• Fluent in French and English. A commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to stay at the forefront of industry trends is essential.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and drive continuous improvement. A commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to stay at the forefront of industry trends is essential.

Proficiency with the following or similar technologies is required or strongly preferred:

• Containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure automation platforms (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD pipeline technologies (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Cloud-native monitoring services)
• Hands-on experience with GitOps and Git-based workflows.
• Experience building observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Proficiency in container security tools (e.g., Trivy, Aqua).
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).

Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.

Use of the term ‘engineering’ in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions, but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

Skills:

·  DevOps
·  Linux
·  Ansible
·  Kubernetes

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.