Platform Engineer - Public Sector

at  Capgemini

ABOUT THE JOB YOU’RE CONSIDERING:

We want passionate Platform Engineers to work as part of an agile team to help public sector clients build and continuously improve digital services using the best of open source software. We’re looking for Engineers that aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck-in. You should learn quickly and love a challenge.
Join us and help grow our already large and strong community of digital specialists, share ideas and innovate.
You’ll be surrounded by some amazing people and working in one of the best cultures that you can find. Capgemini has a team of great Engineers who work together in a community and help each other to deliver and develop as professionals. We work on large scale, technically challenging projects.
Successful candidates must be willing to undergo SC level Security Clearance. Holding Security Clearance already at application stage is preferred.
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 & EXPERIENCE:

Are you a Platform/DevOps Engineers 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.
• 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.