Position Description:

Recognised as one of the world’s largest IT and business consulting firms, CGI has offices across Australia, supporting local public and private sector clients to solve real business problems. Life at CGI is based on ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here you’ll develop your skills, share your insights and reach your full potential.

Reporting to the Delivery Director, the Senior Cloud Engineer role bridges the gap between the solution architect, development team, business team, and project/service management. You will define, validate, and promote the right infrastructure to satisfy business requirements, whilst holding responsibility for delivering growth and change activity.

It’s an exciting time to join the team as we have plans to grow and expand this area of the business in the coming years. The role would suit somebody with broad Infrastructure knowledge, Azure or other public cloud design experience, and who is looking to grow in an Architect role with a company focused on career development.

We offer flexible work and a hybrid work environment to promote work-life balance. The work schedule is dependent on client demand but we ask for a minimum of 2 days in the CGI office / client site.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Technical authority for the Infrastructure Team
• Define, validate, and promote the best-fit infrastructure for a bid, a deal, or a project
• Set and manage stakeholder expectations regarding infrastructure
• Assess current and emergent technology, advising on value and performance
• Develop relationships with infrastructure product vendors
• Align the technology with the business and customer goals, identifying benefits and risk mitigation approaches associated with the proposed solution
• Apply appropriate technical standards
• Ensure infrastructure risks are managed, in particular non-functional requirements, including availability, scalability, and performance
• Support formal and informal technical reviews to ensure the quality of the infrastructure solution design and delivery
• Own the list of infrastructure concerns and architectural decisions and contribute to the technical risk register
• Coordinate plans and actions with project managers in Waterfall and Agile methodologies to make the best use of available resources, including specialists such as service architects
• Own collated infrastructure effort estimates and costs from teams, subcontractors, and suppliers for one or more sub-systems
• Support the development of team members by knowledge sharing and mentoring
• Participate in the weekly roster and support for ad-hoc out-of-hours requests.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrated experience working with public and private cloud (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and platforms (Linux/Windows)
• Broad knowledge of Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture such as Cloud provisioning and orchestration, Servers (Linux and Wintel), backups, storage, networks, databases & containerisation
• Knowledge of Azure is highly desirable with a willingness to develop skills in other cloud architectures
• The ability to create risk and cost-based solutions to satisfy complex work requests
• Strong organisational skills; keep track of multiple, complex time-critical activities; attention to detail
• The ability to work effectively with remote and virtual teams
• The ability to work with technical and business stakeholders with a strong customer focus
• Full permanent work rights for Australia.

Why work for CGI?

Make a difference
From utilities and cyber security to government and financial services, we provide high end IT and business consulting to the world’s most vital and exciting sectors. We’re proud to partner with our clients to bring real business value and contribute to their success by delivering practical innovation that helps them meet their goals.

Your work is what you make it.
We provide a working environment where our members are empowered to shape their careers and take on new responsibilities. As owners, we have the opportunity to drive our careers, forge meaningful relationships with our clients, and benefit from a job well done.

We enjoy what we do
As owners, we’re invested in creating an environment where we enjoy working together and learning from each other. We work with teams from all across the world and celebrate our members’ unique differences. We thrive on building strong relationships with our fellow members and supporting each other to develop professionally and achieve our potential.

Great benefits and work-life balance
We strongly believe that work-life balance is crucial to our success and the success of our members. At CGI, a positive work-life balance is encouraged and supported. We offer flexible work wherever possible and invest in benefits and services that are truly valued by our members, such as our world leading health and wellbeing program, Oxygen.

We are proud to be a Work180 endorsed employer for all women.

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Skills:

• Linux
• MS SQL Server
• Wintel/Windows Server

What you can expect from us:

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.