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About The Job You’re Considering
We’re seeking fellow platform engineers who want to grow their career and delight customers through a hybrid of project and foundational activities. We take a modern approach of working collaboratively internally and externally to achieve high levels of satisfaction both for our clients and ourselves collectively. We achieve this through focused groups of technical people, coming together to deliver and maintain cloud services to UK clients. The strength of our deliveries lies within our people, fostered by a supportive team culture. Our ideal candidate would thrive in such an environment.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Your role
As an integral part of a delivery team, you’ll have fantastic opportunities to develop both yourself and our collective capabilities as you progress both project and foundational requirements with other likeminded Cloud DevOps Engineers. As part of the team, you’ll be empowered to:
- Build and maintain cloud platforms with a high degree of focus on automation and innovation.
- Embrace modern ways of working and feel part of our customer’s outcomes as we group around activities in agile type sprints.
- Continue to strengthen and bolster your existing capabilities in platform engineering through a mix of professional training, certifications, and experiences.
- Collaborate and influence our iterative Capgemini offerings.
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.
Your Skills And Experience
We’d particularly welcome applications from people with experience in Databricks or Splunk
- A proven track record in platform engineering, particularly with: Azure/AWS/GCP, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and VCS (GitHub).
- Can demonstrate tangible experiences of end-to-end delivery.
- A background in infrastructure and networking would be advantageous, as would experience working in an Agile manner.
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.
Please opt in during the application process.
Your security clearance
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
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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.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
Make it real – what does it mean for you?
- You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
- You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
- You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
- You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.
Capgemini. Make it real.
Why you should consider Capgemini
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
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Job Description
A platform engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the technology platforms and infrastructure that support software applications and services. They work on creating and managing the underlying systems and tools that enable developers to build, deploy, and operate their applications efficiently. The role of a platform engineer can vary depending on the client and the specific requirements of the platform they are working on.
Job Description - Grade Specific
A role that blends active community involvement and significant contributions to project goals, focusing on cloud platform engineering. This individual demonstrates a solid understanding of the principles and practices of platform engineering, especially within cloud environments, and shows proficiency in specific technical areas related to cloud infrastructure, automation, and scalability. Key responsibilities include at least one of the following:
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Cloud platforms:
- Community Involvement: Actively participating in the professional cloud platform engineering community, contributing insights, and staying abreast of the latest trends and best practices.
- Team Contribution: Making significant contributions to team objectives, particularly in designing, building, and maintaining cloud based platforms and infrastructure.
- Technical Proficiency: Exhibiting a good grasp of cloud platform engineering principles and demonstrating expertise in areas such as cloud service providers AWS, Azure, GCP, containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code IaC.
- Independent Work and Initiative: Expected to work independently on specific tasks, showcasing initiative and problem solving skills in tackling complex platform engineering challenges.
- Emerging Leadership: Beginning to take on leadership roles, which may involve mentoring junior engineers, leading smaller project teams, or spearheading specific aspects of a project.
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ESM platforms: foundational knowledge of ESM platforms and processes, executive service improvement opportunities. Assists in gathering and reviewing requirements and mapping to integration platform features. Participates and actively supports business initiatives by building reliable, efficient, scalable and business-oriented solutions that integrate and orchestrate a complex portfolio of customer, partner, supplier, and Capgemini tools and solutions.
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DevOps: implementing and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/or/CD.
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Site Reliability Engineering: This role includes the ability to oversee software and performance of the full technology stack.
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