SRE Managing Consultant - Cloud Operating Model

Overview

SRE Consultant (Manager) – Capgemini Invent

Responsibilities

• Define and implement SRE ways of working and engagement patterns, aligning reliability practices with existing ITSM/ITIL processes and modern engineering delivery.
• Establish service measures (SLIs/SLOs), introduce Error Budgets, and enable data‑driven trade‑offs between reliability and delivery velocity.
• Shape observability approaches (metrics, logs, traces) and operational monitoring models that make reliability risks visible and actionable.
• Design incident analysis and improvement loops, including practical approaches that strengthen incident response and drive learning through post‑incident improvement actions.
• Identify high‑friction operational work and prioritise engineering‑led automation to reduce manual effort, improve repeatability, and increase operational scalability.
• Assess SRE maturity, create a phased roadmap from assessment through recommendations and implementation.
• Improve collaboration across engineering disciplines by standardising processes and enabling platform and delivery capabilities that embed resiliency into application and infrastructure layers.
• Lead advisory engagements, guide senior stakeholders through decisions on reliability investment, and coach teams to adopt new practices and measures sustainably.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Business Development – Lead and contribute to proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitch contributions, and client hosting at events.
• Internal Contribution – Participate in campaign development, internal think‑tanks, whitepapers, practice and offering development.
• Learning & Development – Engage in training to support career development and skill growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in client‑facing consulting and advisory roles, operating credibly with senior stakeholders and shaping complex transformation engagements.
• Proven ability to lead and own advisory engagements end‑to‑end, building trusted senior client relationships.
• Experience in a major consulting firm or industry with a consulting background; ability to succeed in a matrixed organisation.
• Experience in proposition building and delivery.
• Demonstrated business development capability, leveraging personal networks to originate and grow SRE, cloud, and operational resilience consulting opportunities.
• Experience working with at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform), applying SRE and operating‑model principles in advisory or large‑scale contexts.
• Design, establish and evolve SRE‑led centres of excellence, setting enterprise‑level standards for SLIs/SLOs, incident management, observability and continuous improvement.
• Exposure to modern observability tooling and ecosystems (Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki) and a strong understanding of metrics, logs and traces for reliability strategy.

Security Clearance

Applicants must obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. Successful candidates must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last five years and meet other eligibility criteria.

Location & Work Arrangement

This role may be based in London, Manchester or Glasgow. Candidates must be fully flexible regarding assignment location and may experience periods of time away from home at short notice.

EEO Statement & Disability Confidence

Capgemini is a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2). All candidates who declare a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria will be offered an interview. Please opt‑in during the application process.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible benefits options to suit personal circumstances.
• Variable element dependent on grade and performance.
• Hybrid working model and flexible working arrangements available.
• Well‑being support including mental health champions and wellbeing apps.

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