Company Profile:
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
Position: Linux Security Expert
Experience: 5-7 years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: General Shift
Location: Chennai
Position ID: J0726-2594
Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Required Knowledge / Experience:
- You think like an engineer, not a checkbox-filler. You don’t just follow procedures, you ask "Why?", dig into problems, and connect the dots between security, systems, and business needs. Whether it’s spotting a misconfiguration in IdM, questioning a risky default setting or proposing a smarter way to automate a task you default to critical thinking over blind compliance.
- Problems? You see them as puzzles. When something breaks (and it will) you don’t panic, you debug. You enjoy untangling complex issues, whether it’s a Kerberos auth failure at 3 PM, a vulnerable package in production or an audit finding that needs a fix yesterday. You balance speed with thoroughness and don’t just patch symptoms: you find the root cause.
- You care about the "why" behind the work. This isn’t just about keeping servers running; it’s about protecting the bank’s systems and data. You take ownership of security risks, explain them clearly to non-technical stakeholders and push back when someone suggests a shortcut that could bite us later.
- You share knowledge because hoarding it helps no one. If you figure out a better way to harden a RHEL system or debug an Ansible playbook you document it, share it with the squad or even write a quick script to save others the same headache. You don’t gatekeep, you help the squad level up.
- You’re a team player, but you don’t need hand-holding. You’ll collaborate with colleagues in Brussels, Madrid, Paris, and India, explain tech to non-engineers and sometimes work solo on deep-dive tasks. You know when to ask for help and when to push forward independently. And when you’re on call, you own the incident until it’s resolved.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Must to have Skills-
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a Linux Security function
- Proven experience in maintenance and L3 support of Red Hat-based LDAP Infrastructures, not just their content
- Proven experience in the creation and maintenance of complex Scripts with Ansible, Bash, and Perl
- Proven experience in Solving AuthZ and AuthN issues and troubleshooting Kerberos and NTLM issues with network traces
- Proven experience in the remediation of vulnerabilities, taking into account the security risks vs the impact on business and deploying Security updates
- Proven experience in technical writing (documentation of procedures and troubleshooting guides)
- Proven experience in Security Monitoring and Analysis of Security events
- “Red Hat Certified Engineer” (RHCE): The Security at Scale Certification
- Security-oriented mindset
Preferable:
- Working with Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions
- Tools (CyberArk, ELK, HashiCorp)
- Security knowledge about AIX, Windows and Windows Server
Business experience:
- Writing skills (reports for technical and non-technical audience)
Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication skills
- Security-oriented mindset is mandatory, focusing on due diligence, and also foreseeing the security impact of actions (whether performed by the team or externally).
Good to Have Skills-
Transversal Skills:
- Ability to develop and adapt to a process
- Ability to understand, explain and support change
- Ability to anticipate business and strategic evolution
- Client focused
- Analytical ability
- Ability to manage a project
Behavioral Skills:
- Communication skills
- Ability to collaborate/Teamwork, but also work autonomously
- Organizational Skills
- Client oriented
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.
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.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
