Platform & DevOps Engineer: Automate, Secure & Scale

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

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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

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.