BackSenior Operations Analyst (SRE)
@ CGI
Position Description:
CGI's Advantage Cloud Operations is an SRE-driven operating model, anchored on an Operations Control Plane that unifies telemetry, event management, automation, and IT Service Management (ITSM). The Senior Operations Analyst is a senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practitioner responsible for driving reliability engineering, problem management, and runbook automation across customer environments. This role also mentors the operations team in adopting proactive, data-driven operational practices while improving platform reliability, operational efficiency, and service quality.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Reliability Engineering & Operations Leadership
- Serve as a senior SRE within the Cloud Operations team supporting the CGI Advantage platform.
- Own end-to-end reliability outcomes, including reducing MTTD and MTTR, minimizing escalations, and improving release safety.
- Lead incident response, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Problem Management activities.
- Design and implement automation and self-healing workflows with appropriate guardrails, approvals, and rollback capabilities.
- Act as the technical lead for the Operations technology stack and drive platform adoption.
- Mentor Operations Analysts while establishing operational standards, taxonomy, and Service Level Objective (SLO) discipline.
Observability & Incident Response
- Drive distributed tracing adoption using OpenTelemetry with trace-to-log and metric correlation for priority services.
- Define SLO-aligned alerting strategies and optimize deduplication, suppression, and event correlation to reduce alert noise.
- Lead Sev 1 and Sev 2 incident bridges while ensuring evidence-based RCAs and corrective actions are completed.
- Standardize dashboards and observability signal sets across customer environments.
Automation & Problem Management
- Build and maintain an active automation backlog and deliver automated runbooks on a quarterly basis.
- Convert recurring incidents into problem records with RCA hypotheses, ownership, and due dates.
- Develop guard-railed self-service operational actions (diagnostics, restarts, environment tasks) utilizing RBAC and audit trails.
- Champion Configuration-as-Code practices, including version control, drift detection, and baseline versus override governance.
Release Safety & Security
- Enforce release gates, quality thresholds, and automated rollback to the last known good state.
- Implement time-bound privileged access (JIT/Break Glass), SSO integration, and audit-ready operational controls.
- Apply Policy-as-Code guardrails across Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes admission controls, and CI/CD pipelines.
Leadership & Governance
- Mentor and upskill Operations Analysts while documenting and promoting "golden path" operational workflows.
- Report reliability KPIs including: Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) , Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) , First Touch Resolution , Automation Coverage
- Partner with Product, Delivery, ITSM, and Security teams within a matrix operating model.
Qualifications:
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
- 6–9 years in cloud operations/SRE, including 3+ years operating production SaaS on Azure.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, log analytics, metrics, and dashboards.
- Kubernetes at scale: AKS, Calico network policy, KEDA autoscaling, Helm based deployments.
- IaC and configuration: Terraform; GitOps with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
- Event management and orchestration: event correlation, auto remediation workflows.
- Scripting/automation: strong Python and Bash; API driven integration across ITSM and tooling.
- Security tooling: Keycloak/ SSO, Azure Key Vault, cert manager, JIT access patterns.
- ITSM depth: incident/problem/change management, severity taxonomy, SLA/SLO reporting.
Preferred Experience
- Policy as code (OPA, Kyverno, Conftest) and compliance grade audit reporting.
- Job/batch orchestration (JS7 or equivalent) and API gateway operations (APISIX/APIM).
- PostgreSQL operations, PgBouncer connection pooling, and managed database patterns.
- Multi tenant managed services delivery with contractual SLA/SLO obligations.
- Certifications: CKA/CKAD, Azure Administrator/Architect, ITIL 4.
How to Apply:
Apply online at: https://www.cgi.com/en/careers
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Location: Lafayette, LA
Date Posted: July 30, 2026
Application Deadline: August 31, 2026
Job Type: Full-time