Platform Engineer - Public Sector

Platform Engineer

You will be primarily working on a client site which is the closest to your base location, however there may be requirements to travel to alternative client sites around the UK which are London, Woking, Worthing, Birmingham, Cardiff, South Wales, Telford, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle

The Job on Offer

We want passionate, energetic Security Cleared Platform/DevOps Engineers to work as part of an agile team to help clients build and continuously improve digital services using the best of open source software. We’re looking for Engineers that aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck-in. You should learn quickly and love a challenge. Join us and help grow our already large and strong community of digital specialists, share ideas and innovate. You’ll be surrounded by some amazing people and working in one of the best cultures that you can find.

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 engineers – at the end of the day it’s all about people. Capgemini has a team of great engineers who work together in a community and help each other to deliver and develop as professionals. We work on large scale, technically challenging projects
•    You’ll work with great technology 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 such as Linux Academy, A Cloud Guru and the Capgemini University. You will have the opportunity to attend conferences, support tech meetups, take part in hackathons, gain industry recognised certification and much, much more.

Your Profile

•    Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment.
•    Good communication skills both in written and verbal format with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely
•    Extremely sound knowledge of GNU/Linux. 
•    Experience of building infrastructure in AWS using Terraform
•    AWS certification (SysOps/Developer/Architect) – preferred but not essential
•    Knowledge and experience of setting up and using configuration management tooling – Puppet preferred.
•    Reasonable fluency in at least one of: Ruby, Go, Python
•    Strong Understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools.

Why Capgemini is unique

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance.  Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to 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. 
Capgemini offers the opportunity to shape your career path, based on your interests and ambitions.  For example, if you want to become a ‘People Manager’ Connected Manager learning journey is there for you.  If you want to become an ‘Architect’ our Global Architect Community offerings can help you get there. 

Get the future you want

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.  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. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.  Capgemini. Get The Future You Want.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.