Senior DevOps Engineer

Location This is a hybrid role based in St. Louis, MO. About the Job You're Considering Capgemini is seeking a DevOps & Kubernetes Administrator to lead the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence of enterprise container platforms and cloud infrastructure. This role partners with engineering, operations, and platform teams to manage production Kubernetes environments, drive automation, improve observability, strengthen security, and ensure highly available and resilient application deployments. Your Role • Administer, operate, and scale production Kubernetes clusters including deployments, upgrades, node pools, networking, storage, and RBAC. • Manage infrastructure resources through capacity planning, resource governance, autoscaling, and cost optimization initiatives. • Analyze and troubleshoot performance issues across pods, nodes, networking, storage, and application workloads. • Diagnose root causes of platform degradation and implement long-term remediation solutions. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable and repeatable application deployments. • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Helm, and automation frameworks. • Establish and enhance observability through dashboards, alerting, SLOs, SLIs, and operational runbooks. • Implement platform security controls including network policies, secrets management, image scanning, and least-privilege access. Your Skills and Experience • At least 10+ years of overall experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering. • Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience administering Kubernetes in production environments. • Strong expertise with Kubernetes including scheduling, networking (CNI), storage (CSI), ingress, node management, and cluster operations. • Experience with Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD preferred. • Strong experience with Docker, container image optimization, and container registries. • Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Helm, and scripting using Bash, Python, or Go. • Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or Flux. • Strong experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Datadog. • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. • Strong Linux systems administration experience. • Solid understanding of networking concepts including DNS, load balancing, TLS, service discovery, and traffic routing. • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. • Certifications such as CKA, CKS, or cloud provider professional-level certifications are preferred. #LI-SD1 The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is $101,140 to $182,624 Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, 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 to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction. These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, 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. Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include: • Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, 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 • Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility