Cloud Architect (On-site)
- Manchester, United Kingdom
Posted 6 days ago
About the role
About the job you’re considering
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join Capgemini's Managed Services business, supporting clients through cloud transformation and the ongoing evolution of complex cloud platforms.
Working within Capgemini's pod-based delivery model, you will act as the Design Authority for your technology domain, providing architectural leadership across live services and strategic initiatives. You'll work closely with engineers, operational teams, and clients to ensure cloud platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business objectives.
Onsite working requirement: This role will require you to work onsite 5-days per week, without any opportunity for hybrid or home working.
Your role:
As a senior technical authority for cloud platform, you will contribute to both operational and project-based activities alongside fellow Consultants, Engineers, and Analysts. You will be empowered to:
- Own end-to-end technical delivery of cloud managed services, meeting SLAs and customer outcomes, and acting as authority for change and acceptance into service.
- Provide technical thought-leadership and authority for the service line aligned to your expertise, ensuring architectural integrity, governance, and standards adherence.
- Define, maintain, and govern cloud blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, and lifecycle standards.
- Improve platform reliability and performance through SRE principles, automation, and continuous service optimisation.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients across live services, service improvements, transitions, and projects.
- Contribute to bids, proposals, and service shaping, ensuring solutions are viable, scalable, and operable.
- Influence, mentor, and guide engineers and stakeholders without formal line management responsibility.
- Ensure services meet security, compliance, resilience, and contractual requirements.
You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Your skills and experience
A proven track record of acting as a Cloud Architect within a Managed Services environment.
- Experience operating as a Service Line Design Authority within large Managed Services environments, including bids, transitions, and live services, with strong commercial awareness, stakeholder management, and client relationship skills.
- Strong understanding of Azure cloud services and how business applications are hosted, integrated, and supported within enterprise environments.
- Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning databases (particularly SQL), identity and access management, Single Sign-On (SSO), Windows operating systems, end-user computing technologies, and SaaS platforms.
- Understanding of application deployment and packaging technologies, including Intune and modern endpoint management concepts.
- Strong DevOps and automation expertise including Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
- Experience improving reliability, performance and resilience through SRE principles, observability and automation.
- Proven technical leadership with the ability to influence engineers, architects, and stakeholders, alongside experience working within Agile, collaborative, and product-aligned delivery models.
We are a Disability Confident Employer
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
- Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process.
Your security clearance and pre-employment checks
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)
Some roles will also require an additional level of security clearance:
Security Check (SC) Clearance:
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
Make it real – what does it mean for you?
Flexibility to work your way
You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means 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.
Your wellbeing
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
Shape your path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
Shared energy
You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.
Why should you consider Capgemini?
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations 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 over 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 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com