Senior Equity/SRE Platform Support

Work Mode: On-site

Mission

As part of a dynamic team, you are convinced that technology can drive the transformation of our industry. In an agile-focused environment, you leverage the latest technologies and cutting-edge solutions on the market. Your actions will help our teams achieve our ambitious business goals by implementing a data-centric enterprise architecture dedicated to capital markets.

The position is within our Global Markets IT department. The Global Markets IT (GMI) department manages the global information system across the entire value chain of capital markets enterprises. The GMI teams are primarily located in Paris, London, New York, Montreal, Hong Kong, India, and Singapore.

We are looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join the team in Montreal. This position aims to deploy, support, and enhance the Equity platform in the Americas and ensure the best possible digital experience for our transactions, sales, and operations in the Americas, as well as globally. The selected candidate will therefore contribute to the broader digital transformation agenda while strengthening the security and resilience of the existing platform.

Key Responsibilities

Trading and Client Service Quality Guardian: Collaborate closely with FO Trading in New York to understand workflows and potential future needs in terms of features and SLAs.

Production Control Tower: Ensure that adequate instrumentation is in place, easily accessible, and understandable for daily platform monitoring as well as for ad-hoc prospective analysis.

Technical Advisor: Perform periodic tests and analyses on the platform to understand recurring or potentially upcoming bottlenecks. Formalize proposals to address identified issues by refactoring algorithms, redesigning building blocks, or resizing infrastructure.

DevOps Engineer: Utilize the existing inner-sourcing framework to collaborate or self-implement suggested changes, when deemed appropriate and possible.

Agility Facilitator: Actively contribute to the security and efficiency of the CI/CD pipeline as a critical factor in production stability and problem resolution efficiency.

Strategic Thinker: Work closely with the Asian and global service teams to continuously foster technical and organizational excellence.

Technological Evangelist: Integrate AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot into all aspects of your daily work to improve development speed, business security, and delivery quality.

Education and Experience

• Computer Science degree (preferred)
• 5 years of experience in development, support, or SRE in IT within the financial industry
• Financial Knowledge
• Equity business and financial markets knowledge
• Understanding of end-to-end equity workflows
• Basic knowledge of instruments (stocks, indices, options, futures, swaps)
• Nice to have: P&L and VaR concepts
• Technical Skills
• SQL and NoSQL
• Windows Server environments (services, IIS, scheduled tasks)
• UNIX/Linux (navigation, shell scripts, Perl)
• SQL databases (query writing, stored procedures, query optimization)
• Batch systems (Control-M)
• Monitoring systems (ITRS Geneos, ELK)
• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible)
• Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• GitHub Copilot, Jira
• Nice to have: C#
• Nice to have: Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Communication and Skills
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Detailed documentation skills
• English proficiency
• Self-motivated and autonomous
• Team player
• Ability to work under pressure
• Meticulous and rigorous
• Fast learner
• Your future duties and responsibilities
• Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• 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.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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