Position Description
If you’re looking for a challenge that stretches your talents and want to make a real difference in people’s lives, come and help us support the digital transformation of the UK. We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join us, working with a high-profile public sector client to deliver meaningful change.
From transforming vital public services to improving the way government departments operate, your work will help protect and serve the UK public. When you start your CGI story, not only will you be improving people’s lives, but you can be sure we’ll do the same for you.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 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, 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.
All applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) to Security Check (SC) level. This position also includes out-of-hours on-call support to ensure continuous service excellence.
Your future duties and responsibilities
You will be responsible for managing and maintaining the platform and infrastructure components of the DevSecOps/PlatOps environments across the Continuous Improvement Teams. This includes configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting the underlying systems to support software development activities and the smooth running of the production applications.
You will ensure the scalability, availability, and reliability of the infrastructure supporting software delivery pipelines, working across the teams to triage, resolve and continuously improve platform-related issues.
You will play a pivotal role in enhancing and maintaining the platform operations environments (using a DevSecOps approach) to support efficient and agile software development across the Continuous Improvement Teams. This role is integral in implementing advanced shift-left testing approaches, maintaining the quality and reliability of core casework tools, and driving automation and process optimisation in collaboration with internal infrastructure teams
Key Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure and Platform Management: Oversee the configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of secure systems as well as develop infrastructure solutions for high availability, scalability, and resilience, leveraging cloud services, container orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Automation & Optimisation: Implement automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and maintenance, including Configuration as Code (CaC), with a focus on minimising manual tasks, developing and maintaining automated remediation, and increasing deployment efficiency and reliability.
- Monitoring & Performance Management: Establish robust monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform reliability and identify performance bottlenecks. Use tooling to analyse metrics and logs to optimise system performance and capacity.
- Security & Compliance: Work closely with the security team to embed security best practices within infrastructure and systems, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and managing identity and access controls. Embed security throughout the CI/CD pipeline, automating security checks, compliance validation, and vulnerability scanning.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with developers to understand application requirements, optimise CI/CD pipelines, and facilitate the efficient deployment of applications across various environments, as well as security to integrate security into the development lifecycle.
- Incident Management & Troubleshooting: Take a proactive approach to incident management, ensuring that platforms are monitored continuously, and issues are quickly identified and resolved, implementing automated remediation where possible.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay informed of emerging trends in cloud technologies, DevSecOps practices, and system architecture, integrating these into the platform to enhance operational efficiency.
- Out-of-Hours Support: Participate in a on-call rotation covering out-of-hours support of the production platform.
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
Key Competencies:
- Proven experience in platform engineering, SysOps, DevSecOps, or related roles.
- Extensive expertise in Windows Server, configuring and optimising IIS to host and manage .NET applications, as well as with Windows Services.
- Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure) or virtualised environments using vCloud and vSphere.
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell).
- Ability to take ownership of and troubleshoot application platform issues, working with colleagues to identify root causes and resolve.
Ideal Competencies:
- Experience with Configuration as Code “CaC” (e.g. Ansible) for automation tasks as well as Infrastructure as Code “IaC” tools (e.g. Terraform, ARM Templates).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins), automating deployments and updates via PowerShell or Ansible, and version control systems (Git).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).
- Knowledge of container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Docker Swarm).
- Understanding of security best practices in cloud and app hosting environments, as well experience with security automation tools and techniques (e.g. vulnerability scanners, static and dynamic code analysis).
- Experience in security frameworks (e.g. OWASP, CIS Benchmarks) and risk management strategies.
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.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
