DevOps Lead - London, UK

Capgemini; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology partner is seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to drive transformation initiatives in CI/CD practices. In this role, you will guide teams in adopting GitLab-based pipelines and promote high-quality automated testing. The ideal candidate has a strong DevOps background, experience in containerisation, and excellent communication skills. This position offers a hybrid work arrangement based in London.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading DevOps transformations in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD lifecycle management, preferably with GitLab.
• Strong background in test automation and reducing manual testing effort.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI/CD Transformation across teams.
• Promote trunk-based development and quality gates.
• Help teams automate manual tests and adopt modern practices.

Skills

DevOps transformations

CI/CD lifecycle management

Test automation

Containerisation

Excellent communication

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Ansible

Elastic

Job description

Overview

Job Title: DevOps Lead

Hybrid: 2 days a week working from the office

Location: London, UK

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Your Role

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on DevOps Lead to spearhead a strategic transformation initiative focused on modernising CI/CD practices across a diverse application estate. This role is central to driving adoption of a standardised GitLab-based pipeline, enabling teams to deliver business ideas to production within a single day.

You will work closely with engineering teams across London, Whippany (New York), Pune, and potentially Prague, helping them onboard to a high-quality, automated CI/CD pipeline. The initiative is already underway, with Client engineers supporting onboarding efforts. We are now augmenting this with DevOps SMEs to accelerate progress.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI/CD Transformation: Guide teams through the three-phase pipeline adoption journey - build, deployment, and production release.
• Pipeline Evangelism: Promote trunk-based development, high test coverage, and quality gates across teams with varying levels of readiness.
• Hands-On Enablement: Provide direct support to engineering teams, helping them automate manual tests and adopt modern DevOps practices.
• Test Automation Strategy: Collaborate with QA and development teams to reduce reliance on manual testing through robust automation frameworks.
• Application Modernisation: Identify opportunities to containerise legacy applications and upgrade outdated language versions.
• Metrics & Maturity Assessment: Drive adoption of DORA metrics and perform application maturity assessments to prioritise onboarding efforts.
• Technical Mentorship: Coach junior engineers and partner with senior SMEs to build a scalable DevOps capability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with stakeholders across geographies to build a repeatable playbook for CI/CD adoption.

Your Profile

• Proven experience leading DevOps transformations in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD lifecycle management, preferably with GitLab.
• Strong background in test automation and reducing manual testing effort.
• Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud/on-prem hybrid deployments.
• Familiarity with a broad tech stack including:
  • Languages: Java, .NET, Python, Scala, C++
• Build Tools: Maven, Gradle, MS Build
• DevOps Tools: GitLab, Ansible, Conda, Poetry
• Monitoring & Logging: Elastic, ELK
• Comfortable navigating Rust-based pipeline components and GitLab runners.
• Experience deploying to AWS, internal platforms (SIK, BCP 2.0), bare metal, and virtual platforms (EBP).
• Ability to assess application maturity and bootstrap DevOps capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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