Capgemini
DevOps Lead Engineer
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About the Job
Join the Financial Services Business Unit within Capgemini’s Cloud and Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as a DevOps Engineer, helping clients deliver resilient, scalable, and future-ready digital services. In this role, you will combine technical leadership with a continuous improvement mindset to accelerate delivery, enhance platform reliability, and enable high-performing teams. Working as a trusted advisor, you will help shape modern engineering practices, drive automation and operational excellence, and support the creation of a secure and sustainable delivery ecosystem. You will also champion innovation, AI awareness, and knowledge sharing to help build a future-ready workforce while delivering measurable business outcomes.
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
- Lead, coach, and support engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
- Define and continuously improve engineering standards, delivery practices, and operational excellence across programmes.
- Drive adoption of automation and streamlined delivery approaches that improve speed, quality, and consistency.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to achieve successful business outcomes.
- Design and maintain scalable infrastructure and deployment approaches that support growth, resilience, and performance.
- Promote proactive service reliability practices, reducing operational risk and improving customer experience.
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities to prevent recurrence of issues.
- Embed security, compliance, and governance considerations throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure effective environment, release, and deployment management practices that minimise disruption and maximise business value.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, AI fluency, and knowledge sharing to support a future-ready workforce.
Your Skills
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineering teams within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in continuous integration, continuous delivery, release management, and deployment automation principles.
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing cloud-based infrastructure and modern application delivery platforms.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, configuration management, and environment provisioning practices.
- Experience working with containerised and distributed application architectures.
- Solid knowledge of observability, monitoring, incident management, and service reliability principles.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities in business-critical environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Experience driving continuous improvement, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.
- Awareness of emerging technologies, AI-enabled ways of working, and their application within software delivery and operations.
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Good-to-Have Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications.
- Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Docker and Kubernetes (including Amazon EKS).
- Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
- AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling.
- Monitoring and observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and security automation.
- Knowledge of blue-green, canary, and progressive deployment strategies.
- Relevant cloud, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps certifications.
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.
Make It Real (what does it mean for you)
- 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 will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
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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 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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