Senior DevOps Engineer

GlobalLogic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health & wellness plan

Private healthcare

Gym memberships

Pension scheme

Volunteer day

Social events

Job summary

GlobalLogic UK&I is seeking experienced Platform Engineering Consultants to lead client engagements and scale the practice. You will provide hands-on technical guidance, mentor the team, and help shape proposals and SOWs.

We value leadership across geographies, a strong DevOps/SRE background, cloud and IaC expertise, and a passion for open‑source tooling. This hybrid UK role combines client delivery with internal growth in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform engineering initiatives and digital transformation programs.
• Proven ability to collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management to bridge technical and business needs.
• Experience building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience engaging in presales activities including requirements gathering and SOWs.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements and build the practice to scale the organization.
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance and validation to the team.
• Own stakeholder relationships and identify new opportunities.
• Mentor and grow team members; prioritize people development.
• Support presales with requirements, proposals, and SOWs.
• Participate in hiring to scale the team to demand.
• Provide recommendations to improve business processes.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Automation

Cloud

Observability

AI agents

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Mentoring

Pre-sales

Tools

Terraform

Vault

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

We are GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company. Based across 23 countries, GlobalLogic is a leader in digital engineering. We help brands across the globe design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for the modern world.

We are seeking to hire experienced Platform Engineering Consultants with a hands‑on engineering background. The candidate will be able to articulate the business benefits that platform engineering and automation, observability, SRE and advanced AI agents provide to our clients and take on the responsibility of handling client engagements from both technical and business perspectives.

About you (ideally):

• Digital Transformation: You have experience contributing to and driving successful digital transformation programs, working across diverse organisational structures and challenges.
• Global Collaboration: Proven experience collaborating with engineering teams distributed across multiple geographies, ensuring seamless communication and delivery.
• Continuous Learner: You are eager to learn and innovate, bringing a client-focused, can-do attitude and the ability to think outside the box.
• Client-Centric Multi-tasker: Comfortable working with multiple clients simultaneously, balancing priorities effectively.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to bridge the gap between technical teams and business leaders.
• Platform Mindset: Capable of articulating, designing, and implementing self-service internal developer platforms, focusing on usability, scalability, and maintainability.

About the role:

• You will be responsible for leading client engagements and building out the practice to enable the organisation to scale. This role will be a mixture of client-facing and internal growth.
• You will be hands‑on in projects to provide technical guidance and validation to the team.
• You will be responsible for stakeholder management, building client relationships and identifying new opportunities.
• You will need to have a thirst to grow and mentor the team, people come first and it's important to foster the growth of the team.
• Part of your responsibilities will be to support and engage in presales activities, this will include understanding requirements from customers, building out proposals and SOWs.
• You will be involved as part of the hiring process to ensure the team scales to match business growth and demand.
• Provide recommendations and thought into existing business processes to ensure optimum efficiency

About you (ideally):

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of DevOps practices such as CI, CD, Infra as Code, Cloud, Monitoring
• A passion for open‑source programming or commercial tooling
• A strong background in leadership of multiple engineering teams
• Experience in building up and mentoring teams
• Being part of implementing end to end delivery lifecycles
• Hungry to learn, out of the box thinkers
• A client-focused 'can-do' attitude
• High attention to detail
• Continuously challenging the status quo
• Feeling comfortable to work with new clients
• Ideally passionate for speaking at conference and meetups

Technical Insight:

• Experience working with some DevOps and SRE tooling:
• Cloud - AWS; desirable of Azure, GCP etc...
• Infrastructure as Code - HashiStack (Terraform, Vault, Consul), CloudFormation etc
• Secrets Management - Vault highly desirable
• Experience in one of the following scripting language: Java, Bash, Python, Powershell, Golang, TypeScript
• Hands-on experience developing and implementing advanced AI agent systems, including creating custom functionalities, designing multi-agent architectures, and setting up necessary server components.

Our approach enables companies "build the exceptional" and be fit for purpose in the 21st century. We hire based on personality, potential, and enthusiasm to make a difference, then we give you the tools and skills you need to follow your own path. You'll benefit by gaining exposure to a wide range of tools and technologies that you can then put into practice and become certified on various Cloud (and related) technologies that will help you to develop your own toolkit.

This role is based in our UK&I region.

Why work at GlobalLogic.

By integrating experience design, complex engineering, and data expertise - we help our clients imagine what's possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses. At GlobalLogic, we have a phenomenal track record of successfully delivering ground-breaking Cloud&Digital Transformation programmes and we have an international reach working with a wide variety of projects and customers.

Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering our people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences - providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career.

Our region also supports a hybrid model which can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by our business, customer and individual needs. You'll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), and discounted gym memberships. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day - so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social at our trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more. We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation.