Principal Platform Engineer - DevOps & Release Automation

Category: Business Consulting, Strategy and Digital Transformation

Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax

Alternate Location(s): United States, Louisiana, Lafayette

Position ID:J0626-0913

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

CGI is seeking a highly skilled Principal Platform Engineer - DevOps & Release Automation to join our Advantage Cloud Operations team and lead a strategic transformation of our build and release platform. This is a technical role focused on modernizing and optimizing our enterprise build and release pipeline supporting CGI Advantage, our flagship ERP platform. We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader who can assess the existing environment, identify bottlenecks and dependencies, redesign the pipeline architecture, and implement scalable automation strategies that improve release velocity, resiliency, and operational efficiency.

This is not a traditional DevOps support role. The successful candidate will take ownership of a critical engineering initiative focused on reducing build times, improving deployment reliability, implementing automated rollback capabilities, and establishing a modern CI/CD foundation for CGI Advantage. The work performed in this role will have a direct impact on release quality, operational stability, and customer outcomes.

The ideal candidate has successfully modernized complex build and deployment pipelines in enterprise environments and is comfortable operating as both an architect and a hands-on engineer. This position offers the opportunity to drive transformational change across the software delivery lifecycle while partnering with engineering, architecture, cloud operations, and product teams to establish modern DevOps best practices.

Location: This role can be performed from any CGI U.S. office.

Your future duties and 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

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering environments
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in rebuilding a slow, fragile pipeline and demonstrating measurable outcomes
• 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
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS), and policy-as-code; you can trace a change from Git commit to running workload
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs to engineering teams and leadership
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical teams and executive stakeholders
• Experience with multi-tenant cloud environments
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and operational excellence frameworks
• Experience implementing Policy-as-Code solutions and cloud governance controls
• Experience working in Agile and DevSecOps environments

Success Measures
• Pipeline build time reduced to under 2 hours (incremental) and under 4 hours (full build) within six months
• Automated rollback demonstrated and tested for all Advantage release tracks
• Dependency map and build architecture documented and peer-reviewed within 60 days
• Eliminate manual deployment and rollback activities through end-to-end automation
• Improve overall pipeline reliability, deployment success rates, and operational efficiency
• Establish scalable DevOps standards and best practices that can be adopted across engineering teams

CGI anticipates accepting applications through July 31, 2026.

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $127,500.00 - $223,200.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment and include:
• 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

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Skills:

• DevOps
• GitHub
• Kubernetes
• SRE (Site Reliability Engr.)
• Terraform