DevOps Engineering Consultant

Job description

Position Description:

CGI is more than just an IT consulting company; we are a global organization offering a world of opportunities. Our culture is built on ownership, collaboration, respect, and belonging, where every professional is encouraged to grow, excel, and make an impact. Our benefits include a share purchase program, profit sharing, wellness credits, training and development programs, and flexible work schedules and locations.

These are exciting times at CGI, and we are looking for experienced professionals to innovate with us. If you thrive in environments where you can delight clients by delivering scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions to complex technical challenges, we want to hear from you!

Our BC offices are building another new team! This exciting initiative will bring together highly skilled data scientists, architects and developers to deliver an innovative solution to a client in the Public sector. We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineering Consultant to work with this team.

The DevOps Engineering Consultant is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the automation, tooling, and processes that enable rapid, reliable, and secure software delivery. This role bridges development and operations by driving CI/CD excellence, infrastructure automation, cloud deployment practices, monitoring, and site reliability engineering.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with cloud platforms, modern DevOps toolchains, and infrastructure-as-code, with a passion for improving developer experience and operational efficiency.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
. Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, security scans, and deployments
. Ensure pipelines are scalable, maintainable, and aligned to DevOps and security best practices
. Integrate automated quality gates, including unit, integration, performance, and vulnerability testing

Infrastructure Automation
. Automate cloud and on-prem infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or CloudFormation
. Support creation and management of environment configurations for development, testing, and production
. Promote GitOps principles for reliable and audit-ready deployments

Cloud Platforms & Environments
. Deploy and optimize workloads across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP depending on organization)
. Support container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE) and serverless compute environments
. Implement cloud-native security, networking, and high-availability configurations

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations
. Implement end-to-end observability solutions including logs, metrics, traces, and alerting
. Monitor system performance and proactively address bottlenecks or reliability issues
. Participate in incident response handling, root cause analysis, and operational improvements
. Help drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices like error budgets and SLIs/SLOs

Security & Compliance
. Integrate DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning, dependency management, and policy enforcement
. Ensure compliance with organizational standards and industry regulations
. Collaborate with security teams to implement identity, access, and network controls in pipelines and environments

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
. Work closely with software engineers, QA, architects, and product teams to improve delivery workflows
. Champion automation, reliability, and “shift-left” quality practices
. Provide guidance, best-practice patterns, and hands-on support to development teams

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

. 4–7 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or site reliability engineering
. Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms
. Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible, or equivalent)
. Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
. Experience with containers and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes)
. Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, App Insights, ELK, Splunk)
. Knowledge of cloud services (Azure preferred, but AWS/GCP acceptable)

Preferred Qualifications

. Azure certifications such as: AZ-400: DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-104: Azure Administrator
. Experience with: GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) Microservices architectures Distributed systems and cloud networking Secrets management (Key Vault, Vault, SSM)
. Exposure to SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, chaos engineering, toil reduction)

Professional Attributes

. Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
. Excellent communication and collaboration skills
. Ability to work across cross-functional teams with competing priorities
. Passion for automation and continuous improvement

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $85,000 - $160,000.

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
·  DevOps Engineering
·  English

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 value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

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