Senior Platform & SRE Engineer
About the role
Build and maintain platform automation solutions using Python and related tooling. Design, improve, and operate internal platform capabilities that enhance developer productivity and operational reliability. Develop reusable frameworks and tooling for deployments, monitoring, remediation, reporting, and self-service operations. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and repeatable software delivery. Drive observability initiatives using metrics, dashboards, logging, and alerting platforms. Collaborate with application teams to improve platform adoption, deployment standards, and operational excellence. Support and enhance Kubernetes-based application platforms and deployment frameworks. Work with authentication and authorization technologies including OAuth2, SSO, and JWT. Analyze application, infrastructure, and database performance to identify optimization opportunities. Contribute to reliability engineering practices including automation, resilience, capacity planning, and operational readiness. Partner with engineering teams to reduce operational toil through automation and platform improvements.
Must-Have Skills
- Strong Python development and automation experience
- Experience building operational tooling, automation frameworks, or platform services
- Strong understanding of Linux systems and scripting
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, logging, and monitoring solutions
- Good understanding of SQL and database fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in enterprise environments
- Understanding of web applications, APIs, and service architectures
- Experience with Auth, SSO, JWT, or similar authentication technologies
- Strong troubleshooting and system-level problem-solving skills
Nice to Have
- Ansible, Terraform, or Helm
- Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform experience
- Experience building self-healing or auto-remediation solutions
- Cloud-native architectures and services
- AI-assisted automation and operational tooling
- SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Who You Are
- An engineer who enjoys building solutions that eliminate manual effort
- Passionate about automation, reliability, and engineering efficiency
- Comfortable working across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and databases
- Focused on improving developer experience while maintaining operational excellence
- A systems thinker who balances reliability, scalability, and delivery speed
Pay
The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $61,087 – $104,364. Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law. The actual compensation offered may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction, including but not limited to: geographic location, education and qualifications, certifications and licenses, relevant experience and skills, seniority and performance, market and business considerations, and internal pay equity. It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A–F): Vacation (12–25 days), company paid holidays, personal days, sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs