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# Platform and DevOps Engineer - Northampton, UK

- **Company:** Capgemini
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Artificial Intelligence, Application Services, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Programming, HP Systems Insight Manager, Java Web Services, Key Management, OpenShift, Performance Tuning, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Software Tools, Prometheus, Systems Integration, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Logging, Test-Driven Development (TDD), GitHub Copilot, System Availability, Claude Code, Grafana, Spring-boot, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Gitlab, Cloudformation, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Terraform, Dynatrace, Docker, Static Application Security Testing
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6668a4e3ec946de9

## About the Role

* Strong experience in Platform Engineering DevOps Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering SRE roles
 * Proven expertise in GitLab CICD pipeline engineering release automation and artifact promotion strategies
 * Handson experience with Docker Helm containerized platforms Kubernetes and or OpenShift
 * Strong understanding of Java Spring Boot applications and the ability to troubleshoot service deployments and runtime issues
 * Practical experience with Apache Kafka including operational monitoring and troubleshooting of event driven systems
 * Expertise in observability platforms such as Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Open Telemetry Observe or equivalent tooling
 * Experience implementing structured logging distributed tracing W3C Trace Context and application monitoring frameworks
 * Strong knowledge of integrating security scanning code quality controls container security and dependency management into CICD pipelines
 * Experience supporting and managing distributed systems within enterprise production environments
 * Familiarity with Test Driven Development TDD principles and automated quality assurance practices
 * Experience leveraging AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code GitHub Copilot or equivalent technologies while applying appropriate governance and validation
Preferred Skills

 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent
 * Knowledge of Vault or enterprise grade secrets management platforms
 * Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering SRE principles Service Level Indicators SLIs Service Level Objectives SLOs and operational resilience practices
 * Experience supporting highly regulated environments within Banking Financial Services Insurance or Public Sector organizations
 * Familiarity with service mesh technologies API gateways policy enforcement platforms and authorization frameworks Knowledge of cloud native architecture and modern platform engineering practices.
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## Description

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:

 * Design build and maintain robust GitLab CICD pipelines covering build testing security scanning artifact promotion and multi environment deployments
 * Develop and manage Helm charts and reusable deployment configurations for Java services OPA Envoy and supporting platform components
 * Build maintain and troubleshoot Docker images Docker Compose environments container networking and runtime configurations
 * Implement and enhance platform observability through metrics dashboards alerting structured logging and distributed tracing
 * Integrate security and quality controls including SAST container scanning dependency scanning code quality analysis and vulnerability management
 * Automate secure configuration management secrets handling certificate deployment and compliance evidence generation
 * Design deployment resilience strategies including rollback mechanisms circuit breakers high availability and disaster recovery controls
 * Support performance tuning capacity planning and operational optimization across policy engines event streaming platforms and application services
 * Collaborate with engineering security architecture and operations teams to deliver secure scalable and resilient platform capabilities
 * Promote DevOps best practices automation first principles and continuous improvement across the engineering organization