Senior DevOps Specialist

CGI•Baltimore, MD

About The Position

CGI is in the top 5 largest global IT companies spread across 40 countries with endless opportunities to expand and grow. As a Federal CGI Partner, you have the opportunity to be a shareholder at CGI and join a family of 91,000 CGI Partners strong. CGI Federal is seeking a Senior DevOps Specialist to lead enterprise automation initiatives, build high reliability CI/CD systems, and architect cloud native deployment pipelines supporting modernization efforts for a large federal agency. This senior role provides technical leadership, drives innovation, and mentors engineering teams across CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure automation. This position is located in Baltimore, MD

Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance
Bachelor's degree +14 years of relevant IT experience
Expert level experience with CI/CD platforms (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
Advanced Kubernetes and container orchestration expertise, including cluster administration.
Mastery of Docker image creation, registry management, and secure container pipelines.
Strong infrastructure automation skills using Ansible (required).
Extensive experience supporting Linux based distributed systems.
Understanding of networking, TLS, RBAC, secrets management, and cloud identity models.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GitOps frameworks (Argo CD, Flux CD).
Hands on cloud experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
Background leading DevOps transformations in large enterprise or federal environments.

Responsibilities

Architect and own enterprise CI/CD pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and audit compliance.
Lead containerization strategy using Docker, Kubernetes, and best practice image lifecycle management.
Design and implement Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, or on prem), including namespaces, operators, ingress, resource quotas, and scaling.
Develop highly repeatable infrastructure as code using Ansible/AAP, Terraform, or cloud automation frameworks.
Define DevOps standards, governance, and tooling strategy for pipeline modernization.
Integrate observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing) into DevOps workflows.
Troubleshoot complex deployment, orchestration, and platform issues across distributed systems.
Mentor junior team members and guide cross team DevOps practices.
Produce architectural documentation, runbooks, automation frameworks, and operational design packages.