Cloud and platform engineer

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.

• Work with architects and cross-discipline teams to design and implement CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform tooling suited to the team’s needs
• Be responsible for infrastructure and platform provisioning, configuration, build, deployment, and monitoring using Infrastructe-as-Code
• Define and implement what good observability practices look like for clients, track reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs/error budgets) and participate in incident response where relevant to your specialism
• Build and maintain internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service tooling that improve developer experience
• Work with clients and internal teams to shape new engineering opportunities and grow a strong DevOps/SRE/platform culture
• Provide operational support: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, resilience, and availability
• Share your knowledge, coach and mentor colleagues, and grow your own skills by experimenting across adjacent disciplines
• Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal projects, campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

• To Be Considered For This Position You Must Hold Active SC (Security Check) Clearance, Or Be Eligible To Gain This Level Of Clearance.
• You’ll bring deep, hands-on experience in one or more of the areas below — plus enough breadth to work confidently alongside colleagues in the others. You don’t need to tick every box.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi
• Configuration management: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Networking, virtualisation, and compute provisioning
• Building or operating internal developer platforms (e.g. Backstage, Port, Cortex, OpsLevel)
• Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• Designing golden paths and self-service tooling for engineering teams
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.
• Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
• Working in agile team environments
• Defining and operating against SLIs/SLOs/error budgets
• Incident response, on-call practices, and post-incident review
• Observability and monitoring: Grafana, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Scripting (bash/shell)
• Testing tooling: Selenium, Cucumber, etc.
• Ability to flexibly support a variety of technologies (Java Spring Boot, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL) and cloud components
• Ability to converse with internal and external stakeholders at the appropriate level

• Capgemini Invent offers Consultants 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: Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM), cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 grade and on company and personal performance.