Cloud and Platform Engineer Consultant

ROLE DETAILS

SBU - Invent

CU - Business Technology 

Global Grade - B 

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

Our Cloud, Platform & Reliability Engineering Consultants sit within AI & Digital Factory, part of the Business Technology practice in Capgemini Invent, which leads digital transformation projects across Capgemini. We are a dynamic community that values innovation, professional development, and the ability to make a real difference for our clients.

As one of our engineers, you’ll work across one or more of the following disciplines: cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). As an engineer in our Cloud Team, you will design, innovate, optimize, build, and run the infrastructure and platforms our clients depend on. Depending on your specialism, this could mean designing and provisioning cloud infrastructure, building internal developer platforms and self-service tooling, running CI/CD automation, defining and monitoring SLOs and leading incident response, or engineering resilient infrastructure at scale.

You will be using variety of technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes and have exposure to public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

You don’t need deep expertise across every one of these areas. We’re looking for strong specialists in at least one, with the curiosity and breadth to collaborate with colleagues across the others.

As part of your role, you will:

• 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

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-Internal projects, 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

To be considered for this position you must hold active SC (Security Check) Clearance, or be eligible to gain this level of clearance. You will also have:

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.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

• 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

Platform Engineering

• 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

DevOps & CI/CD

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.

• Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab

• Working in agile team environments

Site Reliability Engineering

• 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

General

• 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

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work in the UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years. To see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page. 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. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.
• 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 Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you 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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

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 grade and on company and personal performance.

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 350,000 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.