Platform Engineer

Location

UK-Wide

About the job you're considering

Our Senior Platform Engineers still have the chance to roll up their sleeves and frame 'everything as code', driving automation and infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native transformation projects whilst orchestrating and leading scrums teams that leverage DevSecOps or SRE approaches and helping them to deliver unique solutions that leverage all that our hyperscale partners and their ecosystem can offer.

Capgemini's industry-leading cloud-native engineering community is at the top of its game. Responsible for ensuring some of the world's most demanding applications are available, they refuse to be constrained by the limits of today's technology - instead of developing for tomorrow's needs.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

As a Platform Engineer, you'll get the opportunity to:

• Mentor teams and collaborate with others to find the best way to progress.
• Make Product Owners' visions into reality, transforming developers' experiences and enabling organisations to make the most from cloud-native technologies.
• Partner with strategy, enterprise architecture, and application colleagues across Capgemini and drive cloud automation and Kubernetes projects.
• Attract, encourage, and develop our engineers, promoting the fun and excitement of leveraging the latest and best technology.

Your skills and experience

You'll be a motivated tech professional with practical IT experience in cloud technologies, infrastructure and operations:

• Knowledge of cloud-native tools, languages, and methods across a broad spectrum of technologies - demonstrating knowledge of 1 or 2 areas of specialism, e.g., containers, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.
• Willingness to contribute your ideas and opinion on the latest industry trends.
• Experience mentoring and training junior engineers.
• Certified or working towards a Professional level cert with a Cloud Service provider - we're happy to support/fund you on this journey as part of your career development!
• Microservices platform knowledge will be value-add.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible.

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.