Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud Leader

Capgemini; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior or Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and run secure, scalable government digital services using cloud-native and open-source tooling. You’ll work across multi-cloud environments, primarily AWS, to deliver reliable platforms for national-scale services.

You’ll lead platform strategy and governance, champion SRE practices, and drive CI/CD improvements, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with client teams.

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead platform engineer with experience designing, building and operating secure, scalable platforms.
• Experience delivering cloud-native government or public sector services is highly desirable.
• Ability to influence governance, standards, and operability across large engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Influence platform strategy, design and governance guardrails.
• Lead workshops and design reviews with client stakeholders.
• Define SLOs, improve reliability, and lead incident reviews.
• Mentor engineers through hands-on leadership and collaboration.
• Develop platform-as-a-product thinking with reusable capabilities.
• Contribute to designs, code, and problem solving while guiding others.

Skills

Platform engineering

AWS cloud

Kubernetes

GitOps

Observability

CI/CD

FinOps

Security

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

AWS

Job description

Capgemini in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior or Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and run secure, scalable government digital services using cloud-native and open-source tooling. You’ll work across multi-cloud environments, primarily AWS, to deliver reliable platforms for national-scale services.

You’ll lead platform strategy and governance, champion SRE practices, and drive CI/CD improvements, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with client teams.