Senior Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer

CGI is seeking a Senior Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer to support the design, implementation, and ongoing management of enterprise scale cloud data platforms within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role is responsible for building and maintaining secure, scalable, and production ready infrastructure that enables modern data processing and analytics solutions across development, test, and production environments. We partner with 15 of the top 20 banks globally, and our top 10 banking clients have worked with us for an average of 26 years!. This role is located at a client site in Reston, VA. A hybrid working model is acceptable.

The ideal candidate will bring strong AWS cloud expertise, hands on experience with Databricks, AWS EMR, and AWS Glue, and a solid understanding of infrastructure automation, platform security, governance, monitoring, and operational resiliency. Working closely with data engineering and platform teams, this individual will help establish best practices for cloud infrastructure, automate deployments, support CI/CD processes, and ensure the platform meets performance, security, and reliability requirements. This position requires a proactive engineer who can work independently, solve complex infrastructure challenges, and contribute to the continuous improvement of cloud-based data platforms.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role include: 5+ years of experience supporting cloud-based data platforms, infrastructure engineering, or related data engineering environments. Strong experience designing, deploying, and supporting AWS based data platform infrastructure. Hands on expertise with Databricks administration and platform management. Experience supporting AWS data services including EMR, Glue, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and EFS. Proficiency in Python and PySpark for data engineering and platform support activities. Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform. Knowledge of AWS networking, security, encryption, IAM roles, secrets management, and access controls. Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab. Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational support processes. Understanding of data governance, metadata management, data cataloging, and storage integration. Experience with disaster recovery, backup strategies, platform resiliency, and high availability architectures. Ability to establish and enforce security, performance, and cost optimization standards. Experience working with AI assisted development tools and modern engineering practices. Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams. Self starter who can work independently and take ownership of platform operations and improvements.

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.