Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native, Multi-Cloud Lead

Capgemini; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior/Lead Platform Engineer to design, build and run production-grade cloud platforms for public sector clients. You will influence platform strategy, governance and adopt modern cloud-native tooling to deliver reliable services at scale.

You'll lead design reviews, mentor engineers and champion platform-as-a-product thinking, delivering secure multi-cloud landing zones (AWS) and self‑service dev platforms, with strong focus on observability,

Qualifications

• Senior/Lead Platform Engineer with cloud-native experience.
• Experience designing secure multi‑cloud landing zones (AWS).
• Proven ability to lead workshops and design reviews with stakeholders.
• Experience with observability and incident management.
• Understanding of FinOps and cloud cost optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, multi‑account AWS landing zones.
• Build internal developer platforms and self-service automation.
• Deploy and operate hardened Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS).
• Create unified observability stacks with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Deliver cloud-native modernisation and legacy transformation.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines with security and supply chain integrity.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Cloud architecture

SRE / DevOps

OpenTelemetry

Observability

CI/CD

FinOps

Multi-cloud AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)

GitOps

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Capgemini in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior/Lead Platform Engineer to design, build and run production-grade cloud platforms for public sector clients. You will influence platform strategy, governance and adopt modern cloud-native tooling to deliver reliable services at scale.

You'll lead design reviews, mentor engineers and champion platform-as-a-product thinking, delivering secure multi-cloud landing zones (AWS) and self‑service dev platforms, with strong focus on observability,