DevOps Lead Engineer

Join the Financial Services Business Unit within Capgemini's Cloud and Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as a DevOps Engineer, helping clients deliver resilient, scalable, and future-ready digital services. In this role, you will combine technical leadership with a continuous improvement mindset to accelerate delivery, enhance platform reliability, and enable high-performing teams. Working as a trusted advisor, you will help shape modern engineering practices, drive automation and operational excellence, and support the creation of a secure and sustainable delivery ecosystem. You will also champion innovation, AI awareness, and knowledge sharing to help build a future-ready workforce while delivering measurable business outcomes.

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:

• Lead, coach, and support engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
• Define and continuously improve engineering standards, delivery practices, and operational excellence across programmes.
• Drive adoption of automation and streamlined delivery approaches that improve speed, quality, and consistency.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to achieve successful business outcomes.
• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure and deployment approaches that support growth, resilience, and performance.
• Promote proactive service reliability practices, reducing operational risk and improving customer experience.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities to prevent recurrence of issues.
• Embed security, compliance, and governance considerations throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure effective environment, release, and deployment management practices that minimise disruption and maximise business value.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, AI fluency, and knowledge sharing to support a future-ready workforce.

• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineering teams within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in continuous integration, continuous delivery, release management, and deployment automation principles.
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing cloud-based infrastructure and modern application delivery platforms.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, configuration management, and environment provisioning practices.
• Experience working with containerised and distributed application architectures.
• Solid knowledge of observability, monitoring, incident management, and service reliability principles.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities in business-critical environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience driving continuous improvement, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.
• Awareness of emerging technologies, AI-enabled ways of working, and their application within software delivery and operations.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications.
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Docker and Kubernetes (including Amazon EKS).
• Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
• AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling.
• Monitoring and observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and security automation.
• Knowledge of blue-green, canary, and progressive deployment strategies.
• Relevant cloud, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps certifications.

' 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.

Capgemini ist einer der weltweit führenden Anbieter von Management- und IT-Beratung, Technologie-Services und Digitaler Transformation. Als ein Wegbereiter für Innovation unterstützt das Unternehmen seine Kunden bei deren komplexen Herausforderungen rund um Cloud, Digital und Plattformen.