Overview

Secure Innovation is part of CGI’s Space, Defence, and Intelligence business unit, focused primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for government agencies. Our teams work with clients to understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage. We design systems engineered for performance, security, reliability and scalability with modern CI and CD tooling and techniques. We’re looking for experienced Platform Architects who can design, build, and maintain the platforms upon which our products and services are developed and/or run.

Your future duties and responsibilities

The role offers opportunities to work on leading edge and bespoke technologies within an interesting and rewarding environment. We are committed to developing our members and provide learning and development opportunities to ensure your knowledge keeps pace with evolving technology. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would like candidates to have all mandatory requirements, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most criteria.

You will provide the critical operational bridge between applications produced by developers and the broader technical ecosystem, on-cloud and on-premise.

Essential Skills

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Interact with external customers to understand and optimise for their legacy and future environment, bringing platform optimisations to minimise the amount of code to develop and infrastructure to deploy. Integrating with other systems and sub-systems where required.
• Able to understand product roadmaps and conceive the platforms required to support them.
• Mentor teams in technology, architecture and delivery of new solutions.
• Build productive relationships with the developer, architecture, and in-service operations teams.
• Work on new projects and established live systems.
• Distributed system architecture and engineering.
• Develop explainable conceptual and detailed design documentation to a professional standard.
• Bring a toolbox of actionable design patterns for systems.
• Enable data-intensive applications and their streams/message flows.
• Data communications and network services including common enterprise and service provider protocols for public cloud.
• Instrumentation and control engineering.
• Public cloud API and major cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an Associate/Professional level.
• Cloud native architecture including microservices.
• Data storage (block, object, SQL, NoSQL).
• Authentication, authorisation, identity platforms.
• Information security, privacy and regulatory compliance.
• Performance tuning, hardening and troubleshooting.
• Problem solving skills to methodically find faults and perform root cause analysis.
• Able to evaluate multiple courses of action, achieving goals by non-standard means if necessary.
• System regression.
• Protocol analysis.
• Load testing.
• Availability and resilience optimisation.
• Lockdowns and basic penetration testing.

Technologies

• Operating systems and virtualization (Windows and Linux).
• Infrastructure as Code and operational automation (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
• Message queuing and streaming fabrics (e.g. AMQP, Kafka, Kinesis).
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting (Shell and PowerShell).
• Basic coding with a bias for infrastructure (Python, Go, C#).
• IAM policy and authentication/authorization schemes.
• Web services and REST APIs.
• Databases and storage systems.
• Development build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Observability and monitoring (OpenTelemetry, TIG, and ELK stacks).

About life at CGI

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. You’ll be invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work to bring our Dream to life. 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, supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide 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.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Temporary

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet