Software Engineer - Gloucester, United Kingdom - CGI

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Position Description:

Elevate your potential with CGI, a global technology service provider and premier business consultancy recognized by Forbes Magazine as a top employer. Our mission is rooted in evolution, excelling in intricate challenges. Collaborating directly with our clients, we employ innovative technologies to revolutionize, empower, safeguard, and deliver critical mission systems.

The Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit in CGI is a true IT Systems Integrator. We work, build and operate bespoke, technically complex, mission-critical systems which help our clients keep us all safe and secure. We bring innovation to our clients using proven and emerging technologies, agile delivery processes and our deep expertise across the breadth of space, defence, intelligence, aerospace and maritime, all underpinned by our end-to-end cyber capability. We work collaboratively with global technology companies, cutting edge SMEs and academia to deliver the optimal solution for each client.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the 'World's Best Employers' by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member 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.

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to come and join our Secure Innovation & Advisory area which sits within the Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit here at CGI.

The successful Senior Engineer can either be based out of our Gloucester or Manchester offices.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who are passionate about, and comfortable working with leading edge and bespoke technologies, delivering solutions to help keep our country safe. Our teams work alongside our clients to help them understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage. Our systems are engineered for performance, security, reliability and scalability; built with modern CI and CD tooling and techniques.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

As a minimum, candidates must have proven technical skills in at least one (ideally several) of the following:

• Containerisation/Container Security;

• Microservice Architectures;

• API Development, REST, Swagger, OpenAPI, gRPC;

• Cloud platforms and technologies, AWS, (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, EKS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP);

• Cloud native Apps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, MicroK8s;

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation & configuration management;

• Ansible (plus Puppet, Saltstack), Terraform, CloudFormation;

• NodeJS, REACT/MaterialUI (plus Angular), Python, JavaScript;

• Big data processing and analysis, e.g. Apache Hadoop (CDH), Apache Spark;

• RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian or Ubuntu.

• Java 8, Spring framework (preferably Spring boot), AMQP – RabbitMQ,

• Open source technologies;

• Experience of Agile software development (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, etc)

• Experience writing technical documentation such as LLDs, user guides, release notes etc

All applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (SC) level.

Any individual without security clearance is welcome to apply and will always be considered for this or wider opportunities in CGI, where appropriate.

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