DevOps Engineer
Summary
Lead DevOps projects, automate cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and maintain Kubernetes clusters to improve scalability and reliability for enterprise clients.
About The Job You’re Considering
In Digital Customer Experience we specialise in navigating our clients through the complexities of large‑scale, technology‑driven transformation programs, using our skills to drive outstanding delivery. Having the right people using the right methodology and following the right process gives every client the right result.
The Platform Engineering capability within Digital is a growing team of people dedicated to ensuring that the technologies selected and the way that they are implemented meet the business objectives of our clients. There are several disciplines within the Digital Customer Experience team: delivery, business, integration and digital architects and technical managers, and many of our people can perform in more than one of these roles.
Your role
- Be the Lead on multiple delivery projects while working on day‑to‑day BAU and support tasks. Proactively create and deliver infrastructure as code to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our internal or customer‑facing services
- Lead troubleshooting and problem solving. Help with capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
- Take the lead contributing and creating new designs, architectures and standards for new projects or solutions to improve current infrastructure.
- Contribute to the stability and security of the environment.
- Define process and best practices for reliable and timely delivery and communicate work status regularly with a clear articulation of design choices along the way.
- 24 x 7 on‑call support.
You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Essentials and Technical Skills
- Linux System Administration (Ubuntu)
- Networking (LB/Routing/Switching)
- Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/K8s)
- Cloud Platforms – deploying and automation (AWS)
Nice to have
- Databases – (SQL/NoSQL) Cassandra knowledge would be great to have
- Scripting/System‑Programming – (Python/Bash/Go/Java) – Should have experience in at least 1 programming language
- Configuration management; Virtualisation (VMWare)
- CI/CD – Jenkins/Concourse/gitlab‑ci/github actions – should have at least 1
- Monitoring – Prometheus/Grafana/DataDog/Conviva/New Relic
- Logging systems (ELK); Cloud Platforms – deploying and automation (GCP)
We are a Disability Confident Employer
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability, and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Your security clearance
Security Check (SC) Clearance is required for this role. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
What does it mean for you?
We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. You will benefit from learning and development opportunities, including a range of training and certificates from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and more.