Position Description:
Elevate your potential with CGI, a global technology service provider and premier business consultancy recognized by Forbes Magazine as a top employer. Our mission is rooted in evolution, excelling in intricate challenges. Collaborating directly with our clients, we employ innovative technologies to revolutionize, empower, safeguard, and deliver critical mission systems.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member 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.
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 our client's most challenging problems. Our teams work alongside our clients to help them understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage.
We require an Infrastructure Solutions Architect to work as part of the Consulting Unit, on a diverse set of projects delivering on prem, cloud and niche solutions.
Any individual without security clearance is welcome to apply and will always be considered for this or wider opportunities in CGI, where appropriate.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
They will be working on a highly secure cloud project. The role is on an established fast-moving DevSecOps team, on on-prem and multi-cloud infrastructure, using a multitude of technologies including Ansible and Terraform, Ubuntu and Windows, SDN, VPNs, firewalls, VMs, laptops, MFA, AD, monitoring, network performance, resilience and security design, plus some integration scripting and application configuration and management.
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.
Software and hardware infrastructure design, build, test and manage.
• Network, OS and application security.
• Innovative use of modern capabilities: on-prem, remote and cloud.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• IP networking experience (LAN, WAN and Internet).
• Firewalls (physical, virtual and host).
• Network and OS security.
• Consultancy, effective communicator & interpersonal skills.
• Agile DevSecOps.
• Self-starter / Self-Managed / Self-organising, with remote working.
• Infrastructure and application monitoring.
Desired Competencies:
• Automation tools such as ansible and Terraform.
• Linux skills, particularly Ubuntu.
• Windows skills, particularly Active Directory.
• Cloud platforms, particularly VPCs and networking.
• Retail/home hardware and software VPNs and networking.
• Packet-level tracing and debugging, particularly network performance.
Working pattern: due to the secure nature of the work we are operating with a hybrid working policy. We would expect our members to be in their local office as and when required. Some travel to other CGI or client sites might be required (all travel away from your base office is expensed)
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.
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Skills:
1. Firewalls
2. Infrastructure architecture
3. IP Networking
4. LAN
5. WAN