Azure Platform Engineer

About the role

CGI is looking for an Azure Platform Engineer to support our client. You will work hands-on with the teams responsible for building and operating the Azure infrastructure that supports enterprise AI services. As an Azure Platform Engineer, you will help build, automate, monitor and operate production Azure environments, with a focus on reliability, security, observability and cost management. You will work with Azure infrastructure, APIs, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code while supporting the operational needs of enterprise AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Azure AI platform infrastructure (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, AI Search, networking, and identity) that other teams build on top of.
• Implement platform level controls required by governance policy: content filtering, prompt/response logging, access controls, rate limiting, and data residency enforcement.
• Manage provisioning, scaling, and cost governance for AI workloads across resource groups, subscriptions, and environments (dev/test/prod).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model deployment, prompt/config versioning, and infrastructure as code for AI services.
• Own platform security posture: private endpoints, managed identities, RBAC, key/secret management, and integration with enterprise security tooling.
• Monitor platform health, latency, and reliability (SLOs/SLIs) for AI services, and lead incident response for platform level outages or degradations.
• Partner with the AI Governance Lead to implement policy requirements as technical controls, and flag where policy asks exceed current platform capability.
• Support FDEs and application teams by maintaining reusable platform components (RAG scaffolding, agent orchestration patterns, connectors) so they aren't rebuilding infrastructure per engagement.
• Evaluate and onboard new Azure AI capabilities (new models, agent frameworks, evaluation tools) and assess their fit for the platform roadmap.
• Maintain documentation of platform architecture, configuration standards, and runbooks to support audits and onboarding.

Required Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience as an Azure Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, platform operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure (APIM, Monitor, Log Analytics, Entra ID, Terraform).
• Experience building observability pipelines (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Azure native equivalents).
• Experience with CI/CD for infrastructure (Terraform, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, IaC patterns).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Available for on-call production support systems.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with LLM-specific operational concerns: token cost tracking, model latency monitoring, provider failover, rate limiting per caller identity.
• Experience with SIEM integration and security event feeds from application infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI gateway patterns (prompt logging, PII interception, content filtering at the infrastructure layer).
• Experience in a regulated environment where audit trails and change management are mandatory.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $71,700.00 – $188,100.00.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and well-being programs