Platform DevOps Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Pipelines

Capgemini; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident Employer (Level 2

Great Place to Work Wellbeing 2024

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a highly skilled Platform DevOps Engineer to engineer and support automated deployment and operational controls that underpin entitlement authorization and event-driven services. You will blend office, client sites, and home-based work, with no 100% home-working flexibility.

You will design and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, manage Helm charts, build Docker images, and drive platform observability and security across environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE roles.
• Proven expertise in GitLab CI/CD, release automation and artifact promotion.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Helm, Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of Java Spring Boot apps and troubleshooting deployments.
• Experience with Kafka including monitoring and troubleshooting of event-driven systems.
• Observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch).
• Knowledge of integrating security scanning, code quality controls and dependency management into CI/CD.
• Experience supporting distributed, enterprise production environments.
• Familiarity with TDD and automated QA practices.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools with governance and validation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for multi-environment deployments.
• Develop and manage Helm charts and deployment configurations for Java services and platform components.
• Build, troubleshoot, and optimize Docker images and runtime configurations.
• Enhance platform observability through metrics, dashboards, alerts, and tracing.
• Integrate security and quality controls within CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate secure configuration management, secrets handling, and compliance evidence.
• Design deployment resilience strategies including rollback, circuit breakers, and high availability.
• Support performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational optimization across services and event streams.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.
• Promote DevOps best practices and continuous improvement across the organization.

Skills

DevOps engineering

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Java Spring Boot

Kafka

Observability

Security scanning

Automation

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Helm

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Capgemini is seeking a highly skilled Platform DevOps Engineer to engineer and support automated deployment and operational controls that underpin entitlement authorization and event-driven services. You will blend office, client sites, and home-based work, with no 100% home-working flexibility.

You will design and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, manage Helm charts, build Docker images, and drive platform observability and security across environments.