Platform Engineer

About the job you're considering

Are you a passionate SC Cleared Platform Engineer eager to make a difference? We invite you to be part of our agile team, helping public sector clients build and continuously improve digital services using the best open-source software.

We are looking for experienced Platform Engineers, who are ready to roll up their sleeves and dive into challenges. Quick learners who thrive on innovation and problem-solving and individuals who value collaboration and are excited to share ideas.

You’ll be part of a strong, established community of digital specialists. Together, you will share your ideas, innovate and grow. Our team of engineers supports each other to deliver and develop professionally and you'll get to work alongside amazing people in one of the best cultures you can find.

Successful candidates must hold be eligible to undergo SC Clearence. 

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

•    You'll undertake cross-functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other Engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable and reliable services.
•    You’ll work with great technology – the UK Government has an IT strategy based on user centric design, modern open source technology, continuous integration/delivery and modern software architectures such as microservices and cloud technology to name but a few.
•    You’ll help us achieve our vision – the chance to make a real difference at the heart of the digital transformation within the UK Public Sector
•    You’ll get opportunities to develop and progress – working on large scale, technically challenging projects. You will be constantly learning through modern learning environments.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

We're 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.

Your Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are certain criteria and checks required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

In addition to BPSS, you will also need SC (Security Check) Clearance or to be eligible for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 5 years and not having left the country for more than 28 consecutive days during this period)

Your Skills and Experience

Are you a Platform/DevOps Engineer with an appetite to extend your knowledge and apply new skills rapidly on challenging projects?  Do you have a broad range of experience in modern open source stacks? Don’t worry if you haven’t got strong experience in every skill listed below. If you can demonstrate a good selection of these skills and a passion for developing exciting new technical skills, then we’d really like to talk to you.

Essential skills:

•    Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment.
•    Good communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both internal and external stakeholders.
•    Sound knowledge of Linux, Docker and Kubernetes.
•    Experience of building infrastructure in AWS using Terraform.
•    Experience in automation tooling such as Ansible.
•    Provide technical leadership in either a project sense and/or to more junior members of your team.
•    Strong understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools.
 
Desirable skills:

•    Core Networking & Loadbalancing.
•    Jenkins / Concourse / Gitlab CI.
•    Git / GitHub / GitLab.
•    Graphite / Grafana / ELK / Prometheus.
•    SQL / NO-SQL DB’s.
•    HashiCorp (Packer / Terraform / Vault / Consul).

What to expect (interview process)

• Recruiter conversation (role fit, clearance eligibility, assignment preferences)
• Technical interview (platform depth + production scenarios)
• Final conversation (ways of working, team fit)

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. 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 reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.
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 think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations 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. 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 fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.