Role Title: Platform & DevOps Engineer
Location: Northampton, UK
Days on site: 2-3 days a week
Role Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Platform & DevOps Engineer to engineer and support the delivery platform, deployment automation, and operational controls that underpin entitlement, authorization, and event-driven services. The successful candidate will play a critical role in embedding security, reliability, observability, and quality into the software delivery lifecycle, enabling engineering teams to build, test, deploy, and operate applications through consistent and automated pathways.
### Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain robust GitLab CI/CD 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.
### Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.
- Proven expertise in GitLab CI/CD pipeline engineering, release automation, and artifact promotion strategies.
- Hands-on 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, OpenTelemetry, 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 CI/CD 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.
Platform & DevOps Engineer in Northampton employer: Capgemini Europe
As a Microsoft Viva Architect in London, you will join a forward-thinking company that prioritises employee experience and innovation. With a strong commitment to professional development, our collaborative work culture fosters continuous learning and growth, while our focus on data-driven solutions ensures that your contributions have a meaningful impact. Enjoy the unique advantage of working in a vibrant city that is at the forefront of technology and business transformation.
