Senior DevOps Engineer

CGI•Reston, VA

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

CGI has an immediate need for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the largest customers. We take an innovative approach to supporting our client, working side-by-side in an agile environment using emerging technologies. We partner with 15 of the top 20 banks globally, and our top 10 banking clients have worked with us for an average of 26 years! This role is located at a client site in Reston, VA. A hybrid working model is acceptable. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud platform operations supporting machine learning and analytics workloads. This role is responsible for building and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable AWS-based environments across development, test, and production. The ideal candidate will take ownership of GitLab CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, and support containerized deployments across AWS services. You will work closely with platform engineering, ML teams, security, governance, and finance stakeholders to ensure operational excellence, compliance, and cost efficiency. This is a hybrid role based in Reston, requiring three days onsite and two days remote each week.

Requirements

7+ years of relevant experience
Strong hands-on experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Solid expertise in Terraform and infrastructure as code (IaC)
Experience building and managing Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters
Deep familiarity with AWS services including IAM, ECR, ECS/EKS, and SageMaker
Experience provisioning and supporting dev/test/prod cloud environments
Knowledge of observability frameworks, logging strategies, and rollback mechanisms
Experience implementing cloud cost monitoring and optimization practices
Understanding of AWS and AI/ML engineering best practices
Ability to collaborate across technical and business teams, including finance stakeholders
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to operational reliability

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting financial software applications in a regulated environment (preferred)

Responsibilities

Lead CI/CD
Lead infrastructure automation
Lead cloud platform operations supporting machine learning and analytics workloads
Building and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable AWS-based environments across development, test, and production
Take ownership of GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
Support containerized deployments across AWS services
Work closely with platform engineering, ML teams, security, governance, and finance stakeholders to ensure operational excellence, compliance, and cost efficiency