Management Consultant - Cloud DevOps

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

As a DevOps Consultant at Capgemini Invent you will be part of our Cloud Advisory capability within the wider Business Technology capability unit. Our cloud advisory capability aims to inspire, lead and support organisations on their journey of adopting cloud. Creating business and revenue models, generating growth, ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing their carbon footprint.

We are growing across all levels from Consultant to Managing Consultant, offering opportunities to make a real impact In your role, you will deliver DevOps advisory that will enable the adoption, acceleration, and innovation for our clients.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• DevOps Capabilities: Assess, define, and implement DevOps capabilities to deliver innovation, agility, cost benefits, and improved time to market.
• Platform as a Product Mindset: Advocate for treating platforms as products, focusing on user-centric design, clear documentation, and robust support models.
• Product Lifecycle Ownership: Experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of a platform, from ideation and roadmap development through launch, iteration, and sunset, ensuring continuous improvement and value delivery.
• Maximize Investments: Leverage and maximize clients' existing investments in ITSM tools and frameworks.
• Roadmap Development: Develop roadmaps to improve DevOps maturity and unlock value through thought leadership in areas like Generative AI and Platform Product Management.
• Collaborative Transformation: Work with all organizational levels to innovate, design, and implement modern technologies, processes, and operating models, delivering sustainable transformations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration between product, engineering, security, and operations to deliver cohesive platform solutions.
• Innovation & Emerging Tech: Awareness of trends in platform engineering, such as platform orchestration, internal developer portals, and integration of AI/ML capabilities into platform offerings.
• Candidates with platform product management experience are encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates will bring a product mindset to platform engineering, with a focus on user-centric design, lifecycle ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key expectations from this role include:

• As a Consultant: lead a stream of work and produce high quality deliverables, providing key input to shape the strategic direction and support the design of propositions.
• As a Senior Consultant: design and lead projects / multiple streams taking ownership for elements of the proposition.
• As a Managing Consultant: desire to contribute to the growth and success of a top-tier consulting practice. Contribute to our market offers, knowledge and the overall strategic goals of the practice. In delivery and leadership, you'll be responsible for consulting sales in excess of £500,000 per annum

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 - 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.

Do you have experience in ServiceNow?, You're a strategic thinker and hands-on problem solver who excels at bridging business and technology. and you thrive in client-facing environments.

You bring a strategic mindset to product-centric delivery and have a combination of the following:

• Lean process design and IT/business automation across product management, engineering, and operations.
• Comfortable in client-facing roles with consulting/coaching experience in agile delivery transformation.
• Define OKRs/KPIs, set up processes to measure and improve speed, productivity, and quality, and implement product-centric operating models.
• Solid understanding of hybrid/multi-cloud environments, DevOps, CI/CD, SRE, DevSecOps models, DevX, build and deployment pipelines, observability, and ITIL.Optional: Required certifications, licenses or languages
• Understanding of observability and monitoring platform; Experience of having collaborated with developers to implement and improve observability and monitoring practices is preferred.

Security Check (SC) Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/united-kingdom-security-vetting-applicant#levels-of-national-security-clearance) To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. 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. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process. What You'll Love About Working Here You'll be part of a team where people can thrive professionally and personally. Here are just a few of the things our team values and enjoys: * Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands-on experience, delivery capability and industry insights. * You'll learn how we write compelling client propositions, structure and lead high-profile transformation, and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies, often taking an idea from a concept to a vision, to strategy and then execution * Our consultants are formally trained from industry experts on management consulting and client delivery. * We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner led programmes from AWS, Google, ServiceNow and Microsoft. * 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 which 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 many opportunities like monthly team drinks to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. * There are regular leadership connect sessions that will 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 inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All 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. 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. 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. 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.