Cloud Architect (On-site)

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join Capgemini’s Managed Services business, supporting clients through cloud transformation and the ongoing evolution of complex cloud platforms.

Working within Capgemini’s pod-based delivery model, you will act as the Design Authority for your technology domain, providing architectural leadership across live services and strategic initiatives. You’ll work closely with engineers, operational teams, and clients to ensure cloud platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business objectives.

Onsite working requirement: This role will require you to work onsite 5-days per week, without any opportunity for hybrid or home working., As a senior technical authority for cloud platform, you will contribute to both operational and project-based activities alongside fellow Consultants, Engineers, and Analysts. You will be empowered to:

• Own end-to-end technical delivery of cloud managed services, meeting SLAs and customer outcomes, and acting as authority for change and acceptance into service.
• Provide technical thought-leadership and authority for the service line aligned to your expertise, ensuring architectural integrity, governance, and standards adherence.
• Define, maintain, and govern cloud blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, and lifecycle standards.
• Improve platform reliability and performance through SRE principles, automation, and continuous service optimisation.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients across live services, service improvements, transitions, and projects.
• Contribute to bids, proposals, and service shaping, ensuring solutions are viable, scalable, and operable.
• Influence, mentor, and guide engineers and stakeholders without formal line management responsibility.
• Ensure services meet security, compliance, resilience, and contractual requirements.

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.

A proven track record of acting as a Cloud Architect within a Managed Services environment.

• Experience operating as a Service Line Design Authority within large Managed Services environments, including bids, transitions, and live services, with strong commercial awareness, stakeholder management, and client relationship skills.
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services and how business applications are hosted, integrated, and supported within enterprise environments.
• Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning databases (particularly SQL), identity and access management, Single Sign-On (SSO), Windows operating systems, end-user computing technologies, and SaaS platforms.
• Understanding of application deployment and packaging technologies, including Intune and modern endpoint management concepts.
• Strong DevOps and automation expertise including Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
• Experience improving reliability, performance and resilience through SRE principles, observability and automation.
• Proven technical leadership with the ability to influence engineers, architects, and stakeholders, alongside experience working within Agile, collaborative, and product-aligned delivery models.

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. *, 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.

Flexibility to work your way You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means 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.

Your wellbeing You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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.

Shape your path 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 thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Shared energy 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.