Senior Platform Engineer

Hitachi, Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model

Private healthcare

Comprehensive pension

Volunteer day

Team social events

Job summary

GlobalLogic is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help design, implement, and maintain the central platform used by all software engineering teams. You will build CI/CD templates, AI tooling configurations, and golden-path assets to accelerate delivery and reduce friction.

You will work autonomously on complex technical problems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure self-service, discoverability, and robust documentation across versioned assets.

Qualifications

• Production experience building developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Hands-on Claude Code and agent tooling, with context files and MCP servers.
• Platform-as-a-product mindset: prioritise discoverability and self-service.
• Experience building reusable components and templates for others.
• Security-first engineering: SAST/DAST integration and secret management.
• Ability to work autonomously on complex technical problems within a team.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable CI/CD templates and infrastructure patterns.
• Develop Claude Code skills and MCP servers for AI tooling.
• Implement golden path templates with security guardrails and defaults.
• Maintain distribution/versioning of platform assets with docs and channels.
• Collaborate with federated platform teams within governance standards.
• Respond to feedback and evolve patterns from real usage.
• Write docs and examples to enable self-service for engineers.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and design reviews.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Developer tooling

Infrastructure automation

Claude Code tooling

GitLab CI experience

IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)

Kubernetes / ECS

AI-native SDLC

Security - SAST/DAST

Autonomous problem solving

Tools

Claude Code

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Job Description

The Senior Platform Engineer is a key builder of the central platform that all software engineering teams consume to accelerate delivery and reduce friction. They design, implement, and maintain the platform’s components — CI/CD templates, AI agent configurations, golden path tooling, reference patterns — and ship them as products: discoverable, self-service, instrumented for adoption, and tuned to the real workflows of the engineers using them

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience:-

• Strong software and platform engineering skills with production experience building developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code (or equivalent agentic CLI tooling — Cursor, Codex CLI, Cline, Aider): writing custom skills, building subagent systems, implementing MCP servers, and authoring AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md context files
• Platform-as-a-product mindset: builds reusable assets with their consumers in mind, prioritises discoverability and self-service, and validates designs against real adoption rather than assumed need
• Deep hands-on experience with GitLab CI; transferable expertise from GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps also welcome — not just using these, but building reusable components and templates for others
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
• Understanding of AI-native SDLC practices and how to encode them into platform tooling (automated quality gates, agent-triggered workflows, prompt-aware build steps)
• Experience building and publishing reusable packages, templates, or internal libraries — with proper versioning, documentation, and consumption patterns
• Strong understanding of security-first engineering: encoding SAST/DAST integration, secret management, and policy-as-code into central platform assets
• Ability to work autonomously on complex technical problems while collaborating closely with the team on shared standards

Desirable Skills & Experience:-

• Experience with project scaffolding and template engines (Backstage software templates, Cookiecutter, Yeoman, Hygen, Copier) and chart/module systems (Helm, Terraform modules)
• Background in developer experience research — understanding how engineers consume platform tooling and designing for adoption
• Experience with observability and monitoring (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog) — particularly instrumenting developer workflows
• Experience in financial services or similarly regulated environments

Job Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable CI/CD templates, pipeline components, and infrastructure patterns that form the core of the central platform’s offering
• Develop Claude Code (or equivalent agentic CLI tooling) skills, subagents, and MCP servers that become the standard AI tooling distributed to all client teams
• Implement golden path templates — project scaffolding, pipeline configuration, security guardrails, AI-native workflow defaults, etc.
• Maintain and evolve how platform assets reach engineering teams: versioning, distribution across the appropriate channels (version-controlled component repos, package registries, deployed agent services), compatibility testing, and documentation
• Co-develop shared infrastructure components with federated platform teams, working within their governance and standards frameworks
• Respond to feedback from delivery squads — debugging integration issues, evolving patterns based on real-world usage, and building new platform assets as needs emerge
• Treat consuming engineers as customers: design assets to be self-service, write the docs and examples that remove the need for a support ticket, and instrument usage so the team knows what’s actually being adopted
• Contribute to architectural decisions and participate in design reviews with the Platform Team Lead

What we offer

Why work at GlobalLogic

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.

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic is a full-lifecycle product development services leader that combines chip-to-cloud software engineering expertise and vertical industry experience to help our customers design, build, and deliver their next-generation products and digital experiences. We expertly integrate design, complex engineering, and agile delivery capabilities to deliver superior business outcomes for global brands in telecom, automotive, healthcare, technology, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and semiconductor industries.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GlobalLogic employs over 25,000 designers and engineers across the globe. Analysts like NASSCOM and Zinnov have recognized us for being a top company in our field, and we are consistently nominated as a preferred employer by both global HR consultative firms and local job boards. By creating a work environment that is exciting and flexible, and by fostering growth through ongoing learning and development programs, we empower our employees to achieve both their professional and personal goals.

At GlobalLogic, we make amazing products — and careers.