Job Vacancy OpenShift Engineer

London

CGI

Job position OpenShift Engineer

Permanent

As soon as possible

London, United Kingdom

Published on 01/12/2025

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At CGI, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping next-generation container platforms that power mission-critical solutions across our Space, Defence and Intelligence programmes. As an OpenShift Engineer, you’ll design and operate secure, scalable infrastructure that accelerates delivery for teams transforming how our clients protect and safeguard the UK. You’ll work in a collaborative engineering community where you can take ownership of container platforms, apply creative thinking to automation and cloud-native delivery, and grow your expertise with the support of experienced colleagues. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while expanding your skills across OpenShift, OpenStack and modern platform engineering.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner 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.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance.

Candidate profile

In this role, you will design, deploy and manage secure, high-performing OpenShift environments that underpin critical systems. You’ll take ownership of cluster operations, performance, and lifecycle management, while applying creative engineering approaches to enhance automation and platform resilience. Working closely with DevOps, architecture and development teams, you will help evolve container platforms that support mission-driven applications across Space, Defence and Intelligence programmes.

You’ll contribute to automation, disaster recovery, container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code practices that streamline delivery. You will be supported by a collaborative engineering community while having the autonomy to drive improvements and shape the future of platform capability.

Key responsibilities:

Engineer & Maintain: Design, deploy and operate OpenShift infrastructure at scale.

Automate & Streamline: Implement automation with OpenStack, Ansible and scripting languages.

Orchestrate & Optimise: Manage Kubernetes workloads, container deployments and microservices.

Protect & Recover: Support disaster recovery, backup automation and continuity planning.

Collaborate & Integrate: Work with DevOps teams to evolve CI/CD and IaC workflows.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

To succeed, you’ll need hands-on expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes and automation, along with strong understanding of containerised infrastructure and secure platform operations.

You should have:

Practical experience designing and operating OpenShift environments.

Strong automation skills using OpenStack, Ansible and scripting (e.g., Bash, Python).

Solid understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration principles.

Experience supporting CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup processes and secure platform operations.

Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues with a proactive, improvement-focused mindset.

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Working environment

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Discover CGI

London, England, United Kingdom

> 1000 employees

IT services

We are a global business with 91,500 professionals across hundreds of locations worldwide, providing end-to-end IT and business process services that drive our clients’ businesses. In the UK alone, we have around 6,000 member-partners working across 19 towns and cities, doing everything from writing complex code to designing sophisticated software solutions. The work we do powers some of the most ambitious projects that touch the lives of many. Our approach sets us apart, characterised by our proximity model, international presence, expertise, and operational excellence. We organise our operations within metro markets where our clients have concentrated footprints, empowering our local teams to build trusted, in-person relationships. As you build your career here, you’ll develop your skills, share your insights, and work side-by-side with colleagues and clients on innovative solutions that address the most complex issues. Our commitment to ownership, flexibility, and being approachable makes us easy to do business with. Join us, and together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action to meet the needs and balance the interests of our clients, shareholders, communities, and each other. Benefits: - Insurance coverage - Medical benefits - Pension plan - Member Assistant Programme - Check4Cancer - Flexible time off - Share Purchase Plan - Member discounts - Dental benefits - Vision benefits - Profit Participation Plan - Health and Wellbeing Programme

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