DevOps Platform Engineer

CGI•Lafayette, LA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

CGI is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to own and operate an enterprise GitLab platform hosted on AWS. This position is required in one of the following locations: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Birmingham, AL. In this role, you'll manage end to end platform operations — including upgrades, patching, backup/restore, and disaster recovery readiness — while optimizing AWS infrastructure across EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, and EKS integrations. You'll define platform governance for groups, permissions, and CI/CD standards, and build a scalable, secure GitLab Runner strategy that balances performance, reliability, and cost. This role also involves implementing CI/CD guardrails, reusable templates, and compliance checks, along with strengthening platform security through IAM controls, secrets management, and hardening practices. You'll establish strong observability across metrics, logs, and alerting, lead incident response and root cause analysis, and drive operational excellence through better documentation and runbooks. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys owning a critical developer platform end to end and partnering with engineering teams to improve their day to day experience.

Requirements

5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or a related role
Real experience running GitLab as an enterprise platform — not just using it as a CI/CD tool
Strong AWS background with EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation; working knowledge of EKS
Hands on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release processes
Comfortable with Infrastructure as Code and automation first operations
Solid Linux, networking, and distributed systems troubleshooting skills
Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar
Strong communicator who works well across engineering teams

Nice To Haves

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.)
Experience with compliance/policy enforcement in CI/CD pipelines
Exposure to Kubernetes operational patterns or GitOps workflows

Responsibilities

Manage end to end platform operations including upgrades, patching, backup/restore, and disaster recovery readiness.
Optimize AWS infrastructure across EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, and EKS integrations.
Define platform governance for groups, permissions, and CI/CD standards.
Build a scalable, secure GitLab Runner strategy that balances performance, reliability, and cost.
Implement CI/CD guardrails, reusable templates, and compliance checks.
Strengthen platform security through IAM controls, secrets management, and hardening practices.
Establish strong observability across metrics, logs, and alerting.
Lead incident response and root cause analysis.
Drive operational excellence through better documentation and runbooks.