Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer (GCP)
Location: Manchester (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Technology & Engineering | Type: Permanent
Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering in Financial Services
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Capco, you’ll design and deliver scalable, automated, and secure cloud platforms that power the next generation of financial services. Working within cross-functional agile teams, you’ll drive the adoption of modern DevOps practices and continuous delivery frameworks that help our clients transform their technology landscapes.
You’ll work on both greenfield and enterprise-scale projects, spanning cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise environments. This is an opportunity to deepen your expertise, gain certifications, and make a real impact in a collaborative, inclusive environment where your ideas are valued.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for internal and cloud platforms
- Drive improvements of developer productivity striving towards self-service platform engineering
- Automate and optimise deployment processes using infrastructure-as-code.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to enhance performance, reliability, and security.
- Drive continuous improvement through innovation and experimentation.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to Capco’s growing DevOps community.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience in platform engineering agnostic practises
- Ideally experience with developer productivity and platform engineering improvements with large scale data platform
- Experience with public cloud and ideally GCP
- Expertise in containerisation (Docker) and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with scripting (Python, Groovy) to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CircleCI, or GoCD.
- Solid understanding of monitoring, automation, and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Helm).
Bonus Points For
- Experience in financial services or consulting projects.
- Hands-on knowledge of test orchestration (Cucumber, Karate, Selenium).
- Exposure to Kubernetes ecosystems (Istio, Kiali, Fortio).
- Experience migrating on-premise systems to cloud platforms.
- Interest in coaching and mentoring other team members.
Why Join Capco
- Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions.
- Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.
- Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications.
- Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services.
- Help drive transformation and innovation across Financial Services and Energy sectors.
We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:
- Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
- Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
- Family-Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
- Family Care: 8 complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
- Holiday Flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
- Continuous Learning: Your growth, your way - minimum 40 hours of training annually. Take your pick; workshops, certifications, e-learning. Also, Business Coach assigned from Day One: Get one-on-one guidance to fast-track your goals and accelerate your development.
- Healthcare Access: Convenient online GP services.
- Extra Perks: Gympass(Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work, and dental insurance.
Inclusion at Capco
We’re committed to a barrier-free, inclusive recruitment process. If you need any adjustments at any stage, let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. At Capco, we value the difference you make, and the differences that make you. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture celebrates individuality, collaboration, and authenticity every day.
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