What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior AWS DevOps Engineer position at Capgemini?
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Your Role
As a Senior AWS DevOps Infrastructure Engineer you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. This role leads the implementation of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) practices, automates deployment pipelines, and ensures robust observability and operational excellence across all environments.
You will also be across:
- Architect, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, and CloudFront.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, Jenkins) for reliable and automated deployments.
- Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Enhance system reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK).
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance through IAM, KMS, security groups, and AWS best‑practice frameworks.
- Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement across infrastructure components.
- Mentor junior engineers and guide engineering teams on DevOps and cloud‑native practices.
About You
- Extensive hands-on AWS experience (5 years preferred).
- Strong expertise with Linux, networking, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and automation tooling.
- Proficient with scripting languages (Python, Bash).
- Strong expereince with Terraform
- Experience with cost optimization, performance tuning, and designing resilient architectures.
- Ideally have worked in a consulting environment
This is an initial 6 month fixed term contract with the intention to be extended a further 6-12 months.
Must be able to work onsite in Wellington CBD 3-4 days per week.
What you’ll love about working here
- You will be a part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. You will love the exposure to the scale of transformation, the depth of expertise, and the opportunities for growth.
- 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.
- At the heart of our mission is your career growth. You will have countless learning and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
- We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. We offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called ‘Celebrate’.
Apply today!
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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