ABOUT THE JOB YOU’RE CONSIDERING

Are you a passionate Platform Engineer eager to make a difference? We invite you to be part of our agile team, helping public sector clients build and continuously improve digital services using the best open-source software.
We are looking for experienced Platform Engineers, who are ready to roll up their sleeves and dive into challenges. Quick learners who thrive on innovation and problem-solving and individuals who value collaboration and are excited to share ideas.
You’ll be part of a strong, established community of digital specialists. Together, you will share your ideas, innovate and grow. Our team of engineers supports each other to deliver and develop professionally and you’ll get to work alongside amazing people in one of the best cultures you can find.
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 SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Are you a Platform/DevOps Engineer with an appetite to extend your knowledge and apply new skills rapidly on challenging projects? Do you have a broad range of experience in modern open source stacks? Don’t worry if you haven’t got strong experience in every skill listed below. If you can demonstrate a good selection of these skills and a passion for developing exciting new technical skills, then we’d really like to talk to you.

Essential skills:

• Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Sound knowledge of Linux, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience of building infrastructure in AWS using Terraform.
• Experience in automation tooling such as Ansible.
• Provide technical leadership in either a project sense and/or to more junior members of your team.
• Strong understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools.

Desirable skills:

• Core Networking & Loadbalancing.
• Jenkins / Concourse / Gitlab CI.
• Git / GitHub / GitLab.
• Graphite / Grafana / ELK / Prometheus.
• SQL / NO-SQL DB’s.
• HashiCorp (Packer / Terraform / Vault / Consul).

• 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 technology – the UK Government has an IT strategy 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.
  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.