Cloud Developer

Position Description:

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our Client office at a minimum 4 days per week - subject to change at any time.

We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Developer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native applications and services. You will work across APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and data integrations, leveraging modern CI/CD and cloud platform capabilities to deliver high-quality features at speed.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with Azure (preferred) / AWS / GCP, and a track record of building production-grade cloud services. Experience in banking/payments is highly desirable.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Design & Build

. Design and implement cloud-native microservices and APIs using modern language stacks (e.g., .NET/Java/Node/Python).
. Build event-driven components using messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, SNS/SQS).
. Implement secure, scalable, and resilient solutions leveraging managed cloud services (compute, storage, networking, identity).
. Write clean, maintainable, testable code with unit/integration tests and clear documentation.

Cloud Engineering

. Develop and deploy services using containers and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE) or serverless (Azure Functions/Lambda).
. Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform/ARM/Bicep/CloudFormation) for repeatable, version-controlled environments.
. Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) and instrument code for Application Performance Monitoring (App Insights/CloudWatch/Stackdriver).


DevOps & CI/CD

. Integrate services into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), enabling automated build, test, security scans, and deployment.
. Practice shift-left principles: automate quality checks, security policies, and compliance in the pipeline.
. Support blue/green, canary, or ring-based deployments, and production rollout strategies.

Security & Compliance

. Implement cloud security best practices: secrets management, identity & access control (Azure AD/Managed Identities), encryption, and network isolation.
. Address threat modeling, secure coding (OWASP), and compliance needs relevant to financial services.

Collaboration

. Work closely with Product, QE, SRE, and Architecture to align on solution design, NFRs, and release readiness.
. Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and post-incident improvements; contribute to standards and reusable libraries.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Core Engineering

. Proficiency in one or more languages: C#/.NET, Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, Python.
. Strong experience building RESTful APIs and integrating with relational/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB).
. Familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD), 12-factor apps, and clean architecture.

Cloud Platforms

. Hands-on with at least one major cloud: Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.
. Practical experience with managed services (compute, API gateways, messaging, serverless, object storage, key vaults).
. Understanding of networking fundamentals in cloud (VNet/VPC, private endpoints, ingress/egress, load balancing).

Containers, Orchestration & IaC

. Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals (deployments, services, configs, autoscaling).
. IaC using Terraform or Bicep/ARM; environment promotion and config-as-code.

DevOps & Quality

. CI/CD with Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions; artifact management and release governance.
. Automated testing (unit/integration/contract) and contract testing tools (e.g., Pact).
. Basic performance tuning and cost-aware design in cloud.


Required Domain Knowledge (Payments – Optional but Preferred)

. Understanding of payment processing flows, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, reconciliation, and settlement.
. Familiarity with payment rails (e.g., SWIFT, ACH, Fedwire, UPI, RTGS) and ISO /message formats.
. Awareness of security, regulatory, and resiliency requirements in financial services (e.g., PCI-DSS, data residency).


Nice to Have

. Event sourcing/CQRS patterns; Kafka streams or Azure Event Hubs processing.
. Experience with serverless event-driven architectures at scale.
. Knowledge of SRE fundamentals (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, resilience patterns like circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries with backoff).
. Exposure to Generative AI/Copilot for code acceleration, documentation, and test generation.
. Experience with feature flags, A/B testing, and progressive delivery.


Soft Skills & Ways of Working

. Product mindset with a focus on business outcomes, reliability, and security.
. Strong communication and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams.
. Bias for automation, simplicity, and continuous improvement.
. Ownership and accountability for code from design through production.

"CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $80,–$,. This role is an existing vacancy."

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Skills:

• Code Review
• Code Review
• Database Design
• Performance/Stress Testing
• Software Architecture
• Software Design Patterns
• Financial Services