Managing Consultant - Cloud DevOps Architect

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.
Your Role
As a DevOps/DevX consultant at Capgemini Invent you will be part of our Cloud Advisory capability within the wider Business Technology capability unit. Our cloud advisory capability aims to inspire, lead and support organisations on their journey of adopting cloud for creating business and revenue models, generating growth, ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing their carbon footprint.
In your role, you will deliver DevOps advisory that will enable the adoption, acceleration, and innovation on the cloud for our clients. This will mean:
- Assessing, defining and implementing DevOps capabilities that will deliver on innovation, agility, cost benefit and time to market promises.
- Adopting a holistic approach across multiple dimensions to modernise the developer experience. These dimensions will include Organization & culture, DevOps practices & process, tooling and automation, architecture & design.
- Leverage and maximising our clients’ existing investments in ITSM tools and frameworks
- Developing the roadmap and transient states to improve the maturity of DevOps practices and unlock maximum value by adopting NextGen techs like Generative AI and Platform Product Management
You will be required to work and communicate with all levels of an organisation to collaboratively innovate, design, and implement modern technologies, processes, and operating models. You will bring an acute sense of market trends and the challenges facing our clients, to deliver lasting and sustainable organisation transformations.
As a Managing Consultant, Key expectations from this role also include the desire to contribute to the growth and success of a top-tier consulting practice. Contribute to our market offers, knowledge and the overall strategic goals of the practice. In delivery and leadership, you’ll be contributing to consulting sales in excess of £500,000 per annum.
As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
- Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
- Internal Contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
- Learning & Development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.
Your Role
Capgemini Invent offers a cultural environment for consultants to learn, to take ownership and contribute to business growth.
- We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner led programmes.
- Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands-on experience, delivery capability and industry insights.
- You’ll learn how we write compelling client propositions, structure and lead high-profile transformation, and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies, often taking an idea from a concept to a vision, to strategy and then execution.
- Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities which will help us and our clients to succeed.
- We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.
- There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office on Fridays to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new – sometimes even pizza-making or shuffle boarding.
As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
- Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
- Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
- Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.
Your Profile
You will bring experience in transformation through technology and optimize the way clients operate. Comfortable at working in a technology-driven environment, you will bring proven skills and experience in the following:
- Solid understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, DevOps, CI/CD and SRE
- Implementation of DevSecOps models along with necessary tooling, business change and processes. Implementing product centric operating model- Focusing on building the right product, cultivating right ways of working and managing the flow of value from concept to delivery
- Experience in DevX, assessment of current development environment and implementing solutions that lead to more efficient, effective, and secure software development environment.
- Experience in lean process design and use of lean techniques like Value stream mapping to identify and remove waste from the system.
- Consulting/Coaching experience in implementing new ways of working and enabling agile delivery transformation.
- Enabling continuous delivery while ensuring reliability, quality, observability, and performance
- Understanding of build and deployment pipelines, test driven development, automated testing, Test data management, automated Environment provisioning, Version control, Monitoring and alerting and DevOps enablers.
- Understanding of observability and monitoring platform; Experience of having collaborated with developers to implement and improve observability and monitoring practices is preferred.
- Experience in leveraging DORA framework to effectively improve the performance of DevOps teams - Desired.
- Experience in defining OKRs/KPIs, setting up process/systems to measure, track and take corrective actions to drive speed, productivity, and quality improvements.
- Security and governance models for cloud engineering and operations -Desired
- Driving IT and business automation across product management, engineering, and operations -Desired
- ITIL and service management
- Being comfortable in a client-facing role, with previously consulting or advisory experience.
What You'll Love About Working Here
No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time..
We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page
Diversity and Inclusion
At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.
We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
CSR
We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.
Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.
We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.