DevOps Engineers (DV Security Clearance)

Position Description

At CGI, we build secure, mission-critical systems that help shape the future of the UK’s most important industries. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering resilient, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure that enables innovation and operational excellence for our clients. Working within collaborative, cross-functional teams, you’ll have the opportunity to influence modern engineering practices, automate complex environments, and contribute to meaningful solutions with real-world impact. We empower our teams to take ownership, explore new ideas, and continuously develop their skills within a supportive environment where your contributions are recognised and your career can thrive.

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. 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.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance.

Your future duties and responsibilities

In this role, you will design, build, and support secure infrastructure solutions that underpin critical services and applications. You’ll work closely with developers, testers, and platform teams to improve automation, streamline deployments, and enhance system reliability across complex environments. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute ideas, influence engineering approaches, and help drive continuous improvement initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes for clients.

You’ll play an important role in modernising infrastructure and deployment practices, supporting containerised environments, and ensuring systems remain secure, scalable, and resilient. Working within agile teams, you’ll be encouraged to develop your expertise, take ownership of key deliverables, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Design & Maintain secure, scalable infrastructure solutions
• Automate & Optimise deployment and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code
• Collaborate & Deliver with cross-functional agile teams to support CI/CD practices
• Support & Troubleshoot applications and infrastructure environments
• Deploy & Enhance containerised platforms including Kubernetes and Docker
• Improve & Monitor system reliability, resilience, and performance
• Contribute & Innovate through continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role To succeed in this role, you should have experience working within DevOps or platform engineering environments, with a strong understanding of automation, infrastructure, and continuous delivery practices. You’ll be a proactive and collaborative problem solver, comfortable working within agile teams and eager to learn new technologies. Experience supporting secure or highly regulated environments would be beneficial.

Essential Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Familiarity with container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Exposure to cloud and modern platform engineering practices
• Scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash, Java, or Go
• Familiarity with source control tools such as Git
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within agile environments
• UK Security Clearance / Developed Vetting (DV) or eligibility to undergo clearance

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.