IKP Platform Engineer (Kubernetes + Automation) – Hiring ASAP- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: 6 months, with the opportunity to extend for a further 6 months
- Location: Hybrid – 2 days remote, 3 days in the Sheffield Office
- Rate: £400 - £450 per day inside IR35
We have an opening for a IKP Platform Engineer to join Capgemini. You will be part of a team responsible for the end?to?end operation, automation and enhancement of a large?scale hybrid server estate supporting business?critical workloads, for end client HSBC.
The Expertise we are looking for:
- Strong, real hands-on Kubernetes skills (not managed/cloud K8s services).
- Ability to operate, configure, maintain and troubleshoot clusters deployed on physical/VM infrastructure.
- Solid experience supporting cloud-native environments using on-prem or hybrid deployment models.
- Strong automation experience using: Ansible, Python, GitHub / Git, CI/CD tools (Jenkins or similar)
- Good understanding of Linux system engineering, networking fundamentals and container ecosystem tools
- Ability to work across fulfilment and engineering tasks—flexible to take on any required technical activity.
- Experience implementing production changes, ideally in large enterprise environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across infrastructure, platform and automation layers.
- Ability to document, improve and standardise engineering procedures and automated workflows.
