Senior Cloud Engineer

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world. They are seeking an experienced Infrastructure / Cloud Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across AWS using enterprise toolset.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, and policies to enforce Linux OS baseline configurations and compliance
• Automate onboarding of Linux systems into Chef, including bootstrapping, configuration, and compliance validation
• Own the monthly golden image lifecycle (patching, hardening, validation, versioning, and deprecation)
• Build and manage AWS AMIs and Azure Managed Images / Shared Image Gallery (SIG) across accounts and regions
• Ensure images include required monitoring, security, EDR, and vulnerability scanning agents
• Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure with secure defaults and standards
• Integrate image engineering and IaC workflows into CI/CD pipelines, with testing, validation, and quality controls

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5–8+ years of hands on experience in Linux systems engineering and OS hardening
• Proven experience in infrastructure automation and configuration management
• Strong experience with cloud platforms: AWS and Azure
• Hands on expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation
• Solid working knowledge of Linux OS internals, security baselines, and compliance
• Proficiency with Chef and Terraform
• AWS certification is a plus