DevOps Engineers

CGI; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Central Government business. In this role, you will design and implement build, release, and deployment activities while supporting crucial projects aimed at improving services for UK citizens. The ideal candidate should have strong skills in Infrastructure As Code and experience with CI/CD pipelines. This position offers a hybrid working model and requires National Security Vetting.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent pension

Private healthcare

Share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching)

Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate Infrastructure As Code skills.
• Experience in software development lifecycle (Agile/Lean methodologies).
• Awareness of security concerns and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement applications' build, release, and deployment activities.
• Support the design and delivery of services for Central Government.
• Work within multi-functional teams to gather requirements and evaluate tools.

Skills

Infrastructure As Code (AWS Cloud Formation or Azure Resource Manager/Terraform)

Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment Pipelines (GitLab CI)

Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu)

Containerisation (Docker)

Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)

Job description

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Do you enjoy solving complex challenges at the heart of digital innovation? Are you keen to see your work making a real positive impact on UK citizens lives? If so join our Central Government business here at CGI working as a DevOps Engineer.
We work on projects that enhance services, transform organisations, and ultimately make everyday life easier for people. At CGI, you’ll be part of a collaborative, supportive environment where your development matters as much as the solutions you create.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 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 member 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. This is a hybrid working pattern role and ideally you will be based within a commutable distance to one of the following CGI offices Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds or Birmingham, but we will consider candidates from other UK locations.
All applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) to Security Check (SC) level as a minimum.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

You’ll be joining one of our flagship programmes within our Central Government business. You’ll be supporting the design and delivery of services, making them more personal, accurate and efficient for customers, enabling quick access to vital services in a seamless way ultimately improving citizen and colleague experience across several transformational projects. Your contribution will form a vital part in helping our client deliver on the key programme objectives, supporting real changes and improving peoples’ lives
As a DevOps Engineer with us you will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities. Other responsibilities will include working within multi-functional teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, building and executing test plans, provision environments, application performance reviews, assist migration of legacy systems, and triaging and fixing operational issues.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

We expect our DevOps engineers will be able to demonstrate the following core skills:
• Infrastructure As Code (AWS Cloud Formation or Azure Resource Manager/Terraform)

Ideally you will also need to show experience across most of the below
• Experience in software development lifecycle (Agile/Lean methodologies)
• Awareness of security concerns and best practices.
• Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment Pipelines (GitLab CI)
• Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu)
• Containerisation (Docker) and Container Orchestration Systems (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
• Continuous inspection (Sonarqube, Wiz)
• Logging (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk)
• Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)