Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes, Observability & Platforms

CGI Group Inc.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CGI Group Inc. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performing team supporting multiple data product and platform groups.

The role focuses on improving reliability, scalability, observability, deployment, and operational support of critical data-driven platforms in complex production environments. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, platform, and operational teams to strengthen monitoring and alerting capabilities, automate tasks, and

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Production Support environments.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and improve highly available production platforms and services across cloud and containerised environments.
• Manage and support Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments across multiple environments.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions to improve operational visibility and system reliability.
• Investigate incidents, analyse logs, identify root causes, and drive timely resolution of production issues.
• Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous service improvement activities.
• Automate operational tasks and repetitive support activities to reduce manual effort and improve platform efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and data platform teams to improve scalability, resilience, deployment reliability, and operational maturity.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, support procedures, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Contribute to reliability engineering initiatives including proactive monitoring, service health management, operational readiness, and platform optimisation.
• Support deployment activities, release processes, and production change management activities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

DevOps

SRE practices

Logging & monitoring

Python scripting

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Linux

Bash

Python

Windows

Amazon EC2

Job description

CGI Group Inc. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performing team supporting multiple data product and platform groups.

The role focuses on improving reliability, scalability, observability, deployment, and operational support of critical data-driven platforms in complex production environments. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, platform, and operational teams to strengthen monitoring and alerting capabilities, automate tasks, and