Azure Cloud Engineer - Sheffield, UK - Fulltime

Capgemini; Manchester; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer with 10 years of experience to architect, implement and manage secure cloud infrastructure automation frameworks and AI-enabled application delivery across multicloud environments.

The role is hybrid in the UK, focusing on Azure, GCP and AWS, with Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, AKS/GKE, Nexus, and rigorous security and governance.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, SRE, or related roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure and GCP services, architecture, and operation.
• Working knowledge of AWS for multicloud integration.
• Advanced experience with CI/CD tools including Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Architect secure, scalable cloud platforms across Azure and GCP with AWS support as needed.
• Design and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Build reusable Terraform modules with strong state management and governance.
• Deploy and manage container platforms on AKS and GKE, with some EKS support.
• Oversee enterprise artifact lifecycle with Nexus, repos, and promotion controls.
• Implement DevSecOps controls including SAST/DAST and secret management.
• Define release strategies, environment promotion, rollback, and audit-ready deployments.
• Establish observability using logs, metrics, traces, and alerting.
• Lead incident response and reliability improvements to reduce downtime.
• Drive FinOps and cloud cost optimization through governance and rightsizing.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliant platform patterns.
• Mentor engineers and promote automation-first culture and standardization.

Skills

Azure

GCP

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Nexus

Python

PowerShell

Security

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Nexus Repository Manager

Job description

Azure Cloud Engineer

About the Job you are considering:

Join Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice, where we Consult with Purpose, Continuously Evolve, and Architect Tomorrow. Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer with 10 years of experience to architect implement and manage secure cloud infrastructure automation frameworks and AIenabled application delivery across multicloud environments This role has a primary focus on Azure and GCP with secondary support for AWS The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Terraformbased Infrastructure as Code CICD Kubernetes DevSecOps Nexusbased artifact management and platform reliability with strong alignment to security compliance and governance standards in regulated environments 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:

• Architect and operate secure scalable and resilient cloud platforms across Azure and GCP while supporting AWS integrations and workloads where required
• Design and maintain endtoend CICD pipelines using Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins and cloudnative tooling
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and standards using Terraform with strong state management and deployment governance
• Deploy and manage container platforms and workloads across AKS and GKE as primary targets with practical support for EKS
• Own enterprise artifact lifecycle management using Nexus Azure Repos GitHub GitHub Enterprise GitHub Actions including repository strategy dependency governance retention and promotion controls
• Implement DevSecOps controls including SAST DAST dependency and container image scanning secrets management and policyascode
• Define release strategies environment promotion flows rollback mechanisms and auditready deployment processes
• Establish observability standards for logs metrics traces and proactive alerting across cloudnative applications
• Lead incident response root cause analysis and reliability improvements to reduce service disruption and improve recovery times
• Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices through resource governance rightsizing and utilization analysis
• Collaborate with security architecture and engineering teams to ensure secure platform patterns and enterprise compliance
• Mentor engineers and drive DevOps best practices automationfirst culture and platform standardization

Your Skills:

• 10 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Platform Engineering SRE or related roles
• Strong handson expertise in Azure and GCP services architecture and operation
• Working knowledge of AWS for secondary multicloud support and integration use cases
• Advanced experience with CICD tools such as Azure DevOps GitHub Actions and Jenkins

• Deep Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform including module design and lifecycle management
• Strong containerization and orchestration experience with Docker and Kubernetes AKS and GKE preferred
• Mandatory handson experience with Nexus Repository Manager for artifact storage versioning security and pipeline integration
• Solid scripting and automation skills in Python Bash and PowerShell
• Strong cloud security knowledge including IAM RBAC secrets and key management encryption and network security controls
• Practical DevSecOps experience with vulnerability management and secure software supply chain practices
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Azure
• Monitor Google Cloud Operations Prometheus Grafana and centralized logging platforms
• Strong understanding of networking concepts including VNET VPC DNS ingress load balancing and private connectivity patterns
• Proven experience in regulated enterprise environments with strict governance change control and audit requirements
• Excellent communication stakeholder management and crossfunctional collaboration skills

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 organizations 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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