Senior Azure DevOps Consultant

Position Description :

This role is hybrid and requires you to be in our downtown Toronto office ( Yonge Street) 2-3 times per week - subject to change at any time.

Overview : CGI is a leading services provider to Financial Services, Manufacturing Retail and Distribution, Government, Health Care, Utilities and Telecom industries in the Greater Toronto Area.

Be part of a dynamic team of technical engineers and solutions architects servicing a prominent insurance sector client located in the Don Mills area of Toronto.

The team will be client-centric and will serve as the front door to assess, solution and deploy both data center and cloud-based solutions with two of the largest public cloud providers.

The team will also be responsible ensuring the ongoing health of the IT platforms and continuous service improvements.

Your future duties and responsibilities :

• Education : Three-year Diploma or Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Experience : Minimum 7 years of related experience in information technology
• Strong experience provisioning infrastructure in the cloud and on-premises using Infrastructure-as-code toolset.
• Deploying public cloud, and on-premises infrastructure with Terraform and Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Automating manual configuration, processes and tasks using Ansible to improve efficiency and reduce the risk of human error.
• Designing, provisioning, operating infrastructure in the public cloud
• Providing self-service provisioning capabilities for infrastructure and services through the developer portal
• Implementing security measures to protect the platforms from potential threats.
• Monitoring, and optimizing performance for public cloud and on-premises systems.
• Stay current with continually changing technologies to provide new solutions and / or optimize existing solutions.
• Protect sensitive data using secrets management.
• Driving standards and compliance across all platforms

Required qualifications to be successful in this role :

• Extensive experience managing Azure cloud and on-premises infrastructure using Terraform
• Proficiency in automating configuration using Ansible
• Experience in using Git version control and adopt various code branching (e.g. GitFlow, Trunk-based development etc.)
• Working experience in Agile software development methodologies preferably in Azure DevOps tools (Azure pipelines, Azure Repos)
• Ability to setup observability : processes for monitoring, logging and performance metrics
• Good understanding and hands on experience - OS Administration Unix-like, Windows
• Experience writing Unix Shell scripts, Windows PowerShell Scripts, Batch Scripts
• Strong analytical, problem solving, organizational and time management skills
• Articulation of technical solution in various levels of design documents as needed
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Works well independently and within a team environment
• Motivated and have a positive attitude

Skills Nice to Have :

• Ability to manage of containerized applications hosted in Kubernetes (AWS ECR / EKS and GCP GKE) and using Helm for package management.
• Experience in managing Hyper Converged Infrastructure (e.g. Nutanix AHV)
• Basic understanding of on-premises network infrastructure management

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