Senior Cloud Specialist

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Specialist to join our dynamic team. As a key member of our cloud Operations team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our clients cloud infrastructure. Your expertise will ensure the availability, security, and performance of our cloud-based systems.

Location: Ideally to be situated in the Montreal area, but also open to Toronto, Ottawa and Saguenay.

Clearance: This role requires to have or have the ability to obtain SECRET level Government of Canada Security Clearance.

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Manage cloud infrastructure components, including virtual machines, storage, networking, and security resources.
• Manage container infrastructure components
• Provide expertise and leadership regarding Cloud for both infrastructure and applications in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of Cloud services, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to ensure optimal system functionality.
• Perform regular backups, disaster recovery planning, and ensure business continuity for critical applications and data.
• Implement and maintain security best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance standards.
• Automate routine operational tasks using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Solve exciting technical challenges by analyzing, troubleshooting, and designing vital services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you collaborate with.
• Help build a Site Reliability Engineering culture across the organization by sharing your best practices, approaches, documentation, and code with other engineering teams.
• Document your system knowledge as you acquire it over time, create runbooks, and ensure critical system information is readily available to those who need it.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role