Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Consultant - Digital Factory

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll drive transformation and ensure the reliability of cutting-edge platforms. You'll implement observability practices, define SLIs and SLOs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency. This role offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies in a dynamic environment, contributing to high-profile transformations while fostering your personal and professional growth. Be part of a team that values innovation and creativity, and enjoy a culture that promotes learning and ownership.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Training and certifications

Monthly team events

Employee wellbeing programs

Access to unique training environments

Opportunities for business development

Exposure to high-profile transformations

Mental Health Champions program

Qualifications

• Experience implementing SRE principles focusing on observability.
• Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency of client platforms.
• Define and implement SLIs and SLOs for performance measurement.
• Architect scalable cloud infrastructure for containerized applications.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Observability

Kubernetes

Cloud Infrastructure

Continuous Delivery Pipelines

Collaboration Skills

Client Engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Dynatrace

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Docker

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02.05.2025

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Job Description:

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

YOUR ROLE

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our clients' platforms. Your focus will include building strong observability practices, aligning with the SRE mindset & principles, and driving continuous improvement. This will involve:

• Defining and implementing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure and maintain system and application performance, ensuring services meet agreed reliability targets.
• Instrumenting applications to collect key metrics, logs, and traces that enable proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Creating dashboards and configuring alerts to provide real-time visibility into system health, enabling teams to quickly detect and resolve issues.
• Assessing and enhancing Kubernetes capabilities, improving DevOps efficiency through innovation, agility and cost optimisation.
• Taking a holistic approach to modernising the developer experience, focusing on organisational culture, DevOps practices, processes, automation and tooling.
• Architecting scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure to ensure the seamless deployment and optimisation of containerised applications.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement automation strategies that reduce operational complexity and drive continuous improvement.
• Roles can involve out-of-hours or on-call support, depending on client requirements.

Key expectations from this role include:

• As a Consultant: Lead site reliability engineering initiatives with a strong emphasis on observability, ensuring high performance and reliability of applications & infrastructure. Provide strategic insights to shape the overall SRE strategy while collaborating on the design and implementation of scalable and reliable solutions. Establish effective monitoring, alerting and incident response strategies to maintain system availability and promote continuous improvement by collaborating with team members to deliver observability best practices and SRE methodologies.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

We are looking for someone with experience in implementing SRE principles, with a focus on observability and optimising applications & cloud environments. You will be comfortable working in a dynamic, technology-driven environment, while bringing proven expertise in the following areas:

• Strong understanding of the SRE mindset and principles, including the creation and management of Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets ensuring reliability and performance.
• Experience in implementing observability, instrumenting applications to provide insights into system performance. Hands-on experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry for monitoring, tracing, and real-time alerting is highly sought after.
• An understanding of microservices and container orchestration with the ability to optimise containerised applications for reliability and scalability.
• Experience enabling continuous delivery pipelines, with a focus on ensuring system reliability, quality, and performance through automated deployment, scaling, and observability tools.
• Understanding of build and deployment of pipelines and experience in collaborating with developers to improve observability and monitoring practices.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Comfortability interacting and engaging with clients, although a consulting background is not a prerequisite.
• An enthusiasm and excitement at the prospect of working with a wide range of technology stacks and cloud providers across the wide range of clients and industries we support.
• You must have SC (Security Check) Clearance, or be eligible and willing to gain this level of clearance
• You must be able to work Out of Hours or On Call should this be needed for the role you are on

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE:

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years. To see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our website. Capgemini Invent offers engineers a culture of learning, ownership, and focus on value.

• You’ll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies.
• Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array for different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client’s outcomes.
• Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed.
• We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.
• There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London,Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent on grade and on company and personal performance.

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.