Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer (GCP)

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.