IT Capacity Manager

About the job you’re considering

We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Capacity Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the Capacity and Performance Management practice, ensuring that IT services, infrastructure, and supporting resources deliver agreed levels of performance in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. You will establish and maintain capacity management processes, monitor service and resource utilisation, produce forecasts and trend analysis, and collaborate with internal teams and third-party suppliers to ensure future capacity requirements are identified and planned effectively.

You will play a key role in safeguarding service availability and performance, minimising the risk of capacity-related incidents, optimising investment in technology resources, and supporting the delivery of business and digital transformation initiatives.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

• Develop, maintain, and implement Capacity Management policies, processes, standards, and reporting across the IT estate.
• Analyse business, service, and component capacity requirements, ensuring sufficient resources are available to support current and anticipated demand.
• Track and manage any issues & risks that are potentially due to capacity and manage the remediation plans with the customer and technical support teams.
• Work closely with Service Owners, Architecture, Engineering, Operations, and suppliers to forecast demand and develop cost-effective capacity plans.
• Monitor service performance and capacity thresholds, identifying trends, risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for optimisation.
• Drive continual service improvement through proactive capacity planning, performance analysis, and recommendations that enhance service availability, reliability, and user experience

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

• Proven experience in IT Service Management, with significant expertise in Capacity and Performance Management within complex enterprise IT environments.
• Strong understanding of ITIL best practices, particularly Capacity and Performance Management, Service Level Management, Availability Management, and Continual Improvement, with ITIL Foundation certification essential.
• Experience in capacity planning, performance monitoring, trend analysis, forecasting, and demand management, ensuring IT services and infrastructure can meet current and future business requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify capacity risks, performance bottlenecks, service constraints, and opportunities for optimisation across infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, service owners, suppliers, and business stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience using ServiceNow and performance monitoring, reporting, and analytics tools to produce capacity reports, support decision-making, manage risks, and drive continual service improvement initiatives that enhance service performance, resilience, and resource utilisation.
• Experience using tools utilised for monitoring capacity and familiarisation with network devices, virtualised and cloud platforms.

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

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 2023. 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