Principal Platform Engineer

Title: Principal Platform Engineer

Location: Any UK based location (Hybrid)

Role: Permanent

The job on offer

• Our Principle Platform Engineers are responsible for the technical decisions for large cloud-native transformation projects, guiding and orchestrating multiple scrum teams to deliver unique solutions that leverage all that our hyper scale partners and their ecosystem can offer.
• Capgemini' s industry-leading cloud-native engineering community are at the top of their game. Responsible for ensuring some of the world's most demanding applications are available, they refuse to be constrained by the limits of today's technology - instead developing for tomorrow's needs.

Your role

• Working with our Full Stack DevOps teams to frame novel, cloud-native platform and SRE offerings.
• Working with strategy, enterprise architecture and application colleagues from across Capgemini, assembling teams with the optimum blend of skills and experience to rapidly deliver business value.
• A true agile coach, piloting your teams, collaborating with others, and finding the best way to progress.
• Attracting, encouraging and developing our engineers, promoting the fun and excitement of leveraging the latest and best technology.
• Stepping back from hands-on coding but you'll be able to pick up issues and guide your team to fix problems quickly whilst continuously improving
• Sharing vision to create future ready team and focusing on team upskilling

Your profile

• Broad, practical IT experience of more than 6 years of working in cloud technologies, with specific detailed infrastructure and operations knowledge
• Being able to communicate easily and clearly with data scientists, application developers and business executives.
• Deep knowledge of several cloud-native tools, languages and methods.
• Willingness to contribute your thoughts and ideas on the latest industry trends.
• Experience in leading collaborative teams, mentoring and developing junior talent
• Knowledge of multiple Cloud Service providers and technology stacks (we don't except you to know them all!,), if you've got or are working towards certifications with these providers that will be advantageous - we can support you with these certifications too

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.