Infrastructure and Platform Engineering Specialist

CGI; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Infrastructure and Platform Engineering Specialist, contributing to a critical project in Canada's financial ecosystem. You'll innovate infrastructure solutions ensuring high availability and operational excellence while leading a talented team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure design and operational excellence.
• Deep knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and redundancy principles.
• Proficiency in managing containerized environments, particularly OpenShift.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure solutions focused on high availability and disaster recovery.
• Manage vendor components ensuring they meet operational requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while troubleshooting critical incidents.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Job description

Position Description:

We are seeking an Infrastructure and Platform Engineering Specialist to join our team and contribute to a high-profile, national-impact project within Canada’s financial and payments ecosystem. This project is pivotal, handling billions of dollars in daily transactions while driving innovation in the banking and payment space for all Canadian citizens.
As part of the CGI team working on behalf of a major financial institution, you will be responsible for:
• Designing and implementing infrastructure solutions with a focus on high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery.
• Managing vendor-delivered components to ensure they meet strict operational and business requirements.
• Maintaining the long-term operational excellence of critical systems while collaborating with a governing national organization.
This is a long-term engagement that offers opportunities to innovate and lead within a high-impact environment.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain strategies that support system resiliency, high SLAs, and operational continuity.
• Develop and oversee redundancy and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring metrics for system uptime and availability are consistently met.
• Evaluate and confirm the delivery of infrastructure components from vendors against defined business, security, and technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship within the team, fostering knowledge-sharing and operational readiness.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting and problem resolution for critical incidents to minimize downtime and mitigate risks.
• Contribute to the design and integration of future infrastructure projects, ensuring scalability and innovation.
• Play a critical role in documenting and disseminating operational knowledge across teams, including the operations team.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Proven ability to guide project and team best practices for design, planning, and vendor management.
• Expertise in creating and executing testing plans to confirm infrastructure readiness and adherence to requirements.
• Strong collaboration skills across diverse teams and verticals, with the ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift container orchestration and related platforms.
• Ability to take initiative and lead in new, diverse project components.
• Experience mentoring team members and fostering an environment of continuous improvement.
Technologies:
• Core Platforms: OpenShift Container Orchestration System, Kong, Istio
• CI/CD and Automation Tools: ArgoCD, Jenkins, Artifactory
• Messaging and Application Servers: RedHat Message Queue, Spring Boot Server
• Service Management and Security Tools: ServiceNow, Hashicorp Vault, IDAM/2Keys
• Databases: Postgres, CockroachDB
• Orchestration and Collaboration: Ansible, Jira, Confluence (Agile framework)
Qualifications:
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in infrastructure design, operational excellence, and platform engineering.
• Skills:
o Deep knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and redundancy principles.
o Proficiency in managing containerized environments, particularly OpenShift and related technologies.
o Hands-on expertise with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
o Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Strong leadership capabilities with a proven ability to mentor and guide team members.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills to disseminate operational knowledge effectively.

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:

• Infrastructure architecture

What you can expect from us:

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