Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Consultant - Digital Factory - London

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Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Consultant in London, where your expertise in observability and cloud environments will drive transformation for clients. You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring system reliability and performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency. With a strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement, you'll help shape the future of technology solutions. This dynamic environment offers extensive training opportunities, a commitment to employee wellbeing, and a culture of inclusivity, making it an exciting place to grow your career.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Extensive training and certifications

Monthly showcases and team events

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE principles and observability.
• Expertise in cloud environments and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and scalability of client platforms.
• Implement monitoring and incident response strategies.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability

Cloud environments

SLIs and SLOs

Teamwork

Client engagement

Tools

Dynatrace

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Continuous delivery pipelines

Job description

Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Consultant - Digital Factory - London
Reference Code: 132799-en_GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Communities: Strategy & Transformation

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 involves:

1. Defining and implementing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure and maintain system and application performance, ensuring services meet reliability targets.
2. Instrumenting applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
3. Creating dashboards and configuring alerts for real-time system health visibility.
4. Assessing and enhancing Kubernetes capabilities, improving DevOps efficiency through innovation, agility, and cost optimization.
5. Modernising developer experience focusing on culture, practices, automation, and tooling.
6. Architecting scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure for containerised applications.
7. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement automation strategies that reduce operational complexity and foster continuous improvement.

Roles may involve out-of-hours or on-call support, depending on client needs.

Key expectations

As a Consultant, you will:

• Lead SRE initiatives with a focus on observability, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Provide strategic insights to shape SRE strategy and collaborate on designing scalable solutions.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.
• Contribute to business development activities such as proposals, client pitches, and thought leadership.

YOUR PROFILE

We seek someone with experience in SRE principles, observability, and cloud environments, comfortable in a dynamic, tech-driven environment, with expertise in:

• Creating and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Implementing observability with tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
• Microservices and container orchestration for reliability and scalability.
• Continuous delivery pipelines and automation tools.
• Collaborating with developers to improve monitoring practices.
• Strong teamwork and client engagement skills.

You must have SC (Security Check) Clearance or be willing to obtain it. Ability to work out-of-hours or on-call is also required.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE

We are proud to be a four-time recipient of the 'Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK' award. Our culture emphasizes learning, ownership, and delivering value. You will gain exposure to transformative projects and leading technologies, with access to extensive training and certifications in cloud, programming, DevOps, cybersecurity, and agile methodologies.

Our unique training environment at Les Fontaines near Paris fosters knowledge sharing and leadership development. We host monthly showcases, team events, and away days to build connections and skills.

OUR VALUES AND BENEFITS

We promote a positive, inclusive workplace where you can bring your whole self. Flexible working arrangements support work-life balance. Employee wellbeing is a priority, with mental health champions and wellbeing apps available.

We are committed to social responsibility, reducing our carbon footprint, and making a positive social impact. Recognized as one of the world's most ethical companies, we expect our employees to uphold these standards.

While the primary office locations are London, Manchester, or Glasgow, flexibility regarding assignment locations is expected, including potential periods away from home.

We offer a competitive remuneration package with flexible benefits, dependent on role and performance. Documentary proof of right to work in the UK is required before joining.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology services, and digital transformation, with over 55 years of heritage and 340,000 employees across more than 50 countries. We help organizations accelerate their transition to a digital and sustainable future, leveraging strengths in AI, cloud, data, and industry expertise. In 2023, our global revenues reached €22.5 billion.