DevOps Engineer

About the Job you are considering:

Join the Financial Services Business Unit within C&CA as a DevOps Engineer, helping clients build resilient, scalable, and future-ready technology platforms. Working as a trusted advisor, you will lead the adoption of modern delivery practices, drive automation at scale, and enable high-performing engineering teams to deliver business outcomes with confidence. This role is ideal for a self-starter who thrives in complex, data-intensive environments, collaborates effectively across diverse stakeholders, and is passionate about continuous improvement, innovation, and evolving ways of working. Aligned to our vision of “Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow.”, you will help shape sustainable, secure, and efficient delivery capabilities for our clients.

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:

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with client objectives, regulatory requirements, and business priorities.
• Lead the adoption of modern engineering and delivery practices that improve quality, consistency, and speed of delivery.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and operational stakeholders to drive measurable improvements across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Establish governance frameworks, standards, and operating models that enable scalable and sustainable delivery.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Champion observability, service resilience, and proactive incident management to support highly available production environments.
• Embed security, risk management, and compliance practices throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Promote awareness and adoption of AI-enabled capabilities and emerging practices that support a future-ready workforce.
• Continuously assess and improve delivery performance through data-driven decision-making and operational excellence.

Your Skills:

• Proven experience leading DevOps capabilities within large-scale, complex, and data-intensive programmes.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based data processing architectures and enterprise delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to define and implement DevOps operating models, governance standards, and engineering best practices.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing senior stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Strong understanding of application delivery, deployment, integration, and operational support concepts.
• Experience planning, estimating, prioritising, and delivering multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation, platform scalability, reliability, resilience, and performance optimisation.
• Experience in data processing, data mapping, and technical workflow design.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
• Awareness of AI-driven capabilities and their application in improving engineering effectiveness and delivery outcomes.

Good-to-Have Skills

• AWS services including EC2, Lambda, Auto Scaling, VPC, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Experience with AWS analytics and data services such as Glue, Athena, Crawler, Lake Formation, and Redshift.
• Experience with orchestration platforms such as Apache Airflow.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms including Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent solutions.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and containerisation technologies.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and cloud security controls.
• Experience delivering solutions across both AWS and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Relevant cloud, DevOps, security, or architecture certifications.

"We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• 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.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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