Principal DevOps Engineer
About The Position
CGI is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the transformation of our enterprise build and release platform supporting CGI Advantage. Advantage Cloud Operations runs a build pipeline that takes a long time end to end. The Principal DevOps Engineer will own the full transformation: analyze the current pipeline, map every dependency, redesign the build architecture for speed and resilience, and deliver automated rollback. This is a hands-on engineering role with direct impact on release safety and customer outcomes. This role can be performed from any of the US CGI office. Candidates should follow a hybrid schedule of 2–3 days onsite per week.
Requirements
- 10 + years in software engineering , DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering —you have rebuilt a slow, fragile pipeline before and can show the outcome.
- Deep hands-on expertise in GitHub Actions (or equivalent); you write pipelines as production code, not YAML copy paste.
- Strong grasp of dependency analysis — build graphs, artifact registries, incremental compilation, and test impact analysis.
- Proven experience designing automated rollback and blue green or canary promotion strategies in a multi tenant environment.
- Comfortable with Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS), and policy as code – you can trace a change from Git commit to running workload.
- Communicates trade offs clearly to both engineering teams and leadership; writes the design doc before writing the code.
Responsibilities
- Audit the current pipeline – instrument every stage, identify bottlenecks, and produce a dependency map
- Redesign the pipeline architecture – parallelization, incremental builds, caching, artifact promotion, and environment reproducibility
- Deliver automated rollback – every promotion gate must be reversible without manual intervention
- Build resilience into the pipeline – flaky test isolation, retry policies, circuit breakers on external dependencies, and alerting when pipeline health degrades.
- Establish quality gates (unit, smoke, security scan, policy check) that block unsafe promotions without adding latency to the happy path.
- Document and hand off – every pattern, module, and decision is code reviewed, tested, and transferable to the wider team.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive insurance options
- Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
- Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
- Wellness and well-being programs
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
