Platform and DevOps engineer

Capgemini; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning resources

Wellbeing programmes

Mental Health Champions

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Platform and DevOps Engineer to engineer and support deployment automation and operational controls that underpin entitlement authorization and event-driven services.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, and Docker-based deployments, while embedding security, reliability and observability into the software delivery lifecycle. Collaboration with multiple teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD and release automation.
• Experience with Docker, Helm and containerized platforms.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
• Strong troubleshooting of Java Spring Boot deployments.
• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Security testing, SAST, container scanning, and vulnerability mgmt in CI/CD.
• Automation and DevOps automation best practices.
• Familiarity with TDD and automated quality assurance.
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools with governance.
• Infrastructure as code experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security scanning, artifact promotion and multi-environment deployments.
• Develop and manage Helm charts and reusable deployment configurations for Java services, OPA, Envoy, and platform components.
• Build, troubleshoot Docker images and Docker Compose environments; manage container networking and runtimes.
• Improve platform observability with metrics, dashboards, alerts, logging and tracing.
• Integrate security and quality controls into CI/CD: SAST, dependency scanning, code quality, vulnerability mgmt.
• Automate secure configuration management, secrets, cert deployment and compliance evidence.
• Design deployment resilience strategies: rollback, circuit breakers, HA, DR; support performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, architecture and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities.
• Promote DevOps, automation-first principles and continuous improvement across the org.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Java Spring Boot

Observability

Security scanning

Automation

DevOps practices

TDD

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

GitLab

Helm

Docker Compose

OpenShift

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Vault / Secrets management

Terraform / CloudFormation

Job description

Описание:

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform and DevOps Engineer to engineer and support the delivery platform deployment automation and operational controls that underpin entitlement authorization and event driven services The successful candidate will play a critical role in embedding security reliability observability and quality into the software delivery lifecycle enabling engineering teams to build test deploy and operate applications through consistent and automated pathways.

Задачи:

Design build and maintain robust GitLab CICD pipelines covering build testing security scanning artifact promotion and multi environment deployments Develop and manage Helm charts and reusable deployment configurations for Java services OPA Envoy and supporting platform components Build maintain and troubleshoot Docker images Docker Compose environments container networking and runtime configurations Implement and enhance platform observability through metrics dashboards alerting structured logging and distributed tracing Integrate security and quality controls including SAST container scanning dependency scanning code quality analysis and vulnerability management Automate secure configuration management secrets handling certificate deployment and compliance evidence generation Design deployment resilience strategies including rollback mechanisms circuit breakers high availability and disaster recovery controls Support performance tuning capacity planning and operational optimization across policy engines event streaming platforms and application services Collaborate with engineering security architecture and operations teams to deliver secure scalable and resilient platform capabilities Promote DevOps best practices automation first principles and continuous improvement across the engineering organization

Требования:

Strong experience in Platform Engineering DevOps Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering SRE roles Proven expertise in GitLab CICD pipeline engineering release automation and artifact promotion strategies Handson experience with Docker Helm containerized platforms Kubernetes and or OpenShift Strong understanding of Java Spring Boot applications and the ability to troubleshoot service deployments and runtime issues Practical experience with Apache Kafka including operational monitoring and troubleshooting of event driven systems Expertise in observability platforms such as Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Open Telemetry Observe or equivalent tooling Experience implementing structured logging distributed tracing W3C Trace Context and application monitoring frameworks Strong knowledge of integrating security scanning code quality controls container security and dependency management into CICD pipelines Experience supporting and managing distributed systems within enterprise production environments Familiarity with Test Driven Development TDD principles and automated quality assurance practices Experience leveraging AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code GitHub Copilot or equivalent technologies while applying appropriate governance and validation Будет плюсом: Experience with Infrastructure as Code Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent; Knowledge of Vault or enterprise grade secrets management platforms; Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering SRE principles Service Level Indicators SLIs Service Level Objectives SLOs and operational resilience practices; Experience supporting highly regulated environments within Banking Financial Services Insurance or Public Sector organizations; Familiarity with service mesh technologies API gateways policy enforcement platforms and authorization frameworks; Knowledge of cloud native architecture and modern platform engineering practices

Условия:

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. You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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.