Cloud Platform Engineer (DV Security Clearance)
On site
London, United Kingdom
Freelance
21-04-2025
Job Specifications
Position Description
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 the government agencies most challenging problems. Our teams work alongside our clients to help them understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage. Our systems are engineered for performance, security, reliability and scalability; built 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 fantastic opportunities to work on leading edge and bespoke technologies within an interesting and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and will provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation, collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would like candidates to have all of the mandatory requirements, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.
You will provide the critical operational glue between the applications produced by the developers and the broader technical eco system, on-cloud and on-premise.
Essential Skills
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Be able to Interact with External Customers to understand and optimise for their legacy and future environment, bringing platform optimisations to minimise the amount of code that we need develop, and infrastructure that we need to deploy. Integrating with other systems and sub systems, where required.
Able to understand Product Roadmaps and conceive the platforms that will be required to support them.
Mentor our teams in technology, architecture and the 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 the common Enterprise and Service Provider protocols that enable packets to move on the 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 Virtualisation (Windows and Linux)
Infrastructure as Code and Operational Automation (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
Message Queueing 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 API
Databases and Storage Systems
Development Build, Test, and Deployment Pipelines
Observability and Monitoring (Open Telemetry, TIG and ELK stacks)
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. 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. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with 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.
About the Company
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