DevOps Engineer

**About the Role You Are Considering:** We are seeking a highly experienced **Senior Platform Engineer with DevOps expertise** to design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient platform solutions. The role focuses on automation, cloud\-native technologies, CI/CD enablement, and ensuring secure, compliant infrastructure for mission\-critical enterprise systems, particularly within regulated domains such as banking and financial services. **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:** * Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes\-based platform solutions, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and resilience. * Lead cluster orchestration, performance tuning, upgrades, and operational best practices across environments. * Build and manage containerized infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes, following cloud\-native design principles. * Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to ensure repeatability, consistency, and automated provisioning. * Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins to enable reliable and efficient application delivery. * Architect and support platform solutions across IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring portability and scalability. * Implement service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) and advanced container networking solutions (e.g., Calico) for secure and efficient service communication. * Develop automation and operational tooling using Linux shell scripting and Python, reducing manual effort and improving reliability. * Support mobile CI/CD pipelines for Android and iOS as part of a unified frontend and backend delivery platform. * Administer and support WebSphere Application Server, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, and lifecycle management. * Monitor system health, troubleshoot complex platform issues, and apply analytical, systems\-thinking approaches to root cause resolution. * Collaborate closely with development, security, QA, DBA, and infrastructure teams to deliver stable, compliant platforms. * Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering technical excellence, DevOps culture, and continuous improvement. **Your Skills:** * 8\+ years of progressive experience in Platform Engineering and DevOps. * Strong expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud\-native architectures. * Hands\-on experience with Docker, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code best practices. * Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins. * Deep knowledge of cloud platforms: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP. * Advanced experience with Git, including complex branching and workflow strategies. * Familiarity with build tools such as Maven and NPM for dependency and artifact management. * Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio) and container networking (Calico). * Strong scripting and automation skills using Linux shell scripting and Python. * Experience supporting banking and financial services platforms, with a focus on security, reliability, and compliance. * Exposure to testing tools and practices, and collaboration with DBA teams for database\-related operations. * Excellent problem\-solving, analytical thinking, and troubleshooting capabilities. * Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively in fast\-paced Agile environments. * Proven ability to collaborate cross\-functionally and mentor team members. * Testing experience and DBA exposure are considered valuable for this position. * Ability to thrive in high\-pressure, enterprise\-scale environments while delivering platform reliability and development velocity through automation and DevOps best practices. **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. **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. Make it real \| www.capgemini.com