DevOps Engineer

CGI Group Inc.; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK seeks a Platform Engineer to enhance resilient digital platforms for government clients. Your role includes managing high-performance environments, driving automation, and ensuring security using DevSecOps practices. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in platform engineering, cloud platforms like Azure, and automation tools such as Docker and Terraform. Join a company that values inclusivity and personal growth while making a real impact on critical digital services.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent pension

Private healthcare

Share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching)

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in platform engineering or DevSecOps required.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, preferably Azure.
• Proficiency with container tools like Docker is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance platform environments to ensure continuous delivery.
• Configure and manage platform infrastructure for high availability.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines with security best practices.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Cloud platforms (Azure)

Container tools (Docker)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Automation tooling

CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Monitoring technologies (Prometheus, Grafana)

Job description

At CGI, you'll help shape the future of secure, scalable digital platforms that power critical services across the UK. As a Platform Engineer, you will play a central role in strengthening high‑performance environments that enable agile delivery and continuous innovation initially for our major UK Government and Justice clients. You will take ownership of complex platform challenges, collaborate closely across multi‑disciplinary teams, and apply creative problem‑solving to drive automation, reliability, and resilience. Supported by a community of experts, you will contribute to modernising platforms that make a real impact while evolving your skills in an environment that values curiosity, initiative, and continuous growth. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK “Best Employer” by the Financial Times. 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.

Your future duties and responsibilities: you will maintain and enhance secure, resilient, and scalable platform environments that underpin continuous delivery for multiple teams. You will take ownership of platform health, proactively identifying improvements, strengthening automation, and ensuring the reliability and performance of core systems. Working closely with developers, security specialists, and infrastructure teams, you will help streamline CI/CD pipelines, embed secure‑by‑design practices, and support the rapid deployment of high‑quality applications. You will contribute ideas, trial new approaches, and be supported by a collaborative community as you help drive forward platform innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, manage, and optimise platform infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Build automation for provisioning, deployments, remediation, and system maintenance using IaC and CaC.
• Implement advanced monitoring, analyse performance metrics, and optimise system capacity.
• Embed security controls throughout environments and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance and automated vulnerability detection.
• Work with developers and security teams to streamline deployments and integrate secure DevSecOps practices.
• Lead incident triage, troubleshoot issues, and introduce automated remediation where possible.
• Research new technologies and integrate modern practices to uplift platform performance and reliability.

To succeed, you will bring hands‑on experience in platform engineering or DevSecOps, with strong knowledge of cloud platforms, IaC, automation tooling, and secure development practices. You should be comfortable working across cross‑functional teams, contributing to continuous improvement, and supporting mission‑critical environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure.
• Proficiency with container tools (e.g., Docker, Docker Swarm).
• Expertise with IaC tools (Terraform, ARM Templates).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins) and Git.
• Knowledge of monitoring technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and CaC tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Understanding of cloud and container security, automation tooling, and frameworks such as OWASP and CIS Benchmarks.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. You will develop innovative solutions, build relationships with teammates and clients, and access global capabilities to scale your ideas. Join our team—a global consulting firm—to shape your career in a company built to grow, thrive, and benefit from expansive industry expertise.