Specialist Software Engineer - Devops

Company Profile:

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.

Job Title: Specialist Software Engineer Devops

Position: Specialist Software Engineer Devops

Experience: 5-8Years
Category: IT Infrastructure
Main location: Bangalore
Position ID: J0826-2066
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description:
We are looking for a Specialist Software Engineer Devops experience in designing, automating, and managing cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms. The role focuses on Kubernetes, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD automation, observability practices. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Linux environments, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and Python-based automation to improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• A Speicalist Software Engineer delivers features for a Product in a business chain.
• As member of a Feature Team, he works in autonomy and in a continuous improvement
• Good understanding of Linux Systems. Good understanding of Terraform and Ansible
• Build and manage continuous deployment of software (CI/CD)
• Strong understanding of Containers and Orchestration
• Should have knowledge on Azure Kubernates Services (AKS), other Azure services using terraform
• Ensure System uptime with Monitoring and Alerting
• Use Python scripts to ensure high availability in Postgres Cluster.
• Ensure Observability of the Kubernetes Systems (both onprem and azure) using Python scripts to monitor Cronjobs/Pods/Cluster health status
• Automation of DNS creation, Certificate management, apm integration using APIs and init containers in CICD pipelines (via scripts)
• Automate creation of Users, Vault Policies using Terraform and Python scripts for maintaining secret management
• Ensuring rebuilds of all backend services to ensure projects have latest dependencies (init containers/base images) via scripts preferably Python.
• Handle migration of repositories more than 200 using scripts like registry migration, db migration (all should be done via scripts).
• Build reusable CICD pipelines using helm to update more than 50 services
• Handle Observability of services for stack like Java, Angular, DotNet using APM agent in ELK.
• Have automate first mindset in all the tasks related to SRE.
• Implement DevOPS/SRE best practices Skills that will help you succeed in this role
• Must have knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Ansible, Terraform, Github actions/Jenkins
• Understands Basic networking Concepts
• Work with Development and Operations teams to understand requirements and translate it into backlog
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to DevOps projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Must be comfortable working with a distributed team

Profiles Required:

• 4 7 Years of DevOps experience required.
• Mandatory skills: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Python/Groovy, Jenkins, Terraform, build tooling (maven /npm/etc.), Github, Sonar, Terraform and Ansible, Azure
• Additional Skills: Certification in Kubernetes Specific Contex
• Candidates who are passionate about quality aspects.
• Proven Ability to learn and work on latest technology, have good analytical skills and pickup faster.
• Should have excellent communication, interpersonal skills and be a team player.
• Should have been engaged on one project for at least 10 months.
• Candidate should work on all below activities related to the software development.
• Guarantee best practice and quality of the code of the whole team.
• Organize and optimize/industrialize the process of development.
• Propose technical solutions.
• Participate to the construction of the technical infrastructure when needed.
• Work in a team with agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, pair programming, e…