Java Developer (IT)

At CGI, we are transforming how secure digital healthcare is delivered across the UK. Join us to help build and evolve critical identity and authentication services that enable millions of healthcare professionals to access vital systems safely and efficiently. You?ll play a hands-on role in modernising national platforms, working in a collaborative environment where you can shape solutions, contribute ideas, and see the real-world impact of your work every day. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ?Best Employer? by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you?ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We?ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position. Candidate profile: In this role, you will help run and enhance a critical national authentication platform, ensuring reliability, security, and continuous improvement. You?ll take ownership of delivering new features, resolving incidents, and shaping how the platform evolves as part of a supportive, high-performing engineering team.

• Own & Deliver: Build and enhance features aligned to the product roadmap
• Resolve & Support: Troubleshoot and fix high-priority incidents quickly
• Collaborate & Shape: Work closely with Product Owners, BAs, and Technical Leads
• Improve & Modernise: Reduce technical debt and enhance system performance
• Automate & Streamline: Improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Scale & Maintain: Support a high-availability, critical national service

Required qualifications to be successful in this role You are an experienced Java engineer with a strong DevOps mindset and a passion for building secure, scalable systems. You?re comfortable working across the stack and enjoy collaborating to deliver high-impact solutions. Must-have experience:

• Strong Java development experience
• Python scripting
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure)
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven)
• Containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Database experience (PostgreSQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server)

Desirable skills:

• Identity & access management tools (PingDS, PingIDM, HAProxy)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Testing tools (Karate, Playwright, Gatling/Scala)

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