Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & Architecture

Red Badger; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual £2,000 training budget

Enhanced pension

Group Life Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Home-office setup budget

Job summary

Red Badger is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in London to build and operate enterprise software and data products. You will work closely with Product, Delivery, and Leads to ensure technology choices align with client goals and Red Badger’s value propositions.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, mentoring, and embedding technical excellence across delivery teams, with opportunities to lead multiple technology teams on client engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern DevOps practices and platform engineering in complex client environments.
• Hands-on work with cloud native tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to influence architecture and technology strategy in client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Support lean software delivery with value-focused architecture and design.
• Contribute to architecture input and solution design.
• Lead multiple tech teams across a programme of work where needed.
• Coach and mentor engineers to raise standards and adopt best practices.

Skills

DevOps

Consulting

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

FLUX

Kyverno

Istio

Github Actions

Prometheus/OTEL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes/EKS

Job description

Red Badger is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in London to build and operate enterprise software and data products. You will work closely with Product, Delivery, and Leads to ensure technology choices align with client goals and Red Badger’s value propositions.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, mentoring, and embedding technical excellence across delivery teams, with opportunities to lead multiple technology teams on client engagements.