Senior Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain the central platform used by software teams to accelerate delivery. You’ll ship CI/CD templates, AI tooling, and reference patterns as products with discoverability and self-service in mind.

You will guide engineers, validate designs, and collaborate with federated platform teams to align with governance and standards. This role is based in the UK&I region with hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• Strong software and platform engineering experience building developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infra automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable CI/CD templates, pipeline components, and infrastructure patterns.
• Develop Claude Code (or equivalent agentic CLI tooling) skills, subagents, and MCP servers used as standard AI tooling.
• Implement golden path templates and maintain how platform assets reach engineering teams.
• Co-develop shared infrastructure components with federated platform teams within governance.
• Respond to feedback from delivery squads and treat engineers as customers.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and participate in design reviews.

Skills

Platform engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Claude Code

GitLab CI

Autonomy

Security-first

AI-native SDLC

Reusable packages

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

ECS

Cursor/Codex CLI/Aider

Job description

We are GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company and a leader in digital engineering. We help brands across the globe design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for the modern world. 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 strong track record of successfully delivering ground-breaking Cloud, Data & Digital Transformation programmes and we have an international reach working with a wide variety of projects and customers. Our approach enables companies to “build the exceptional” and be fit for purpose in the 21st century.

We are seeking to hire experienced Platform Engineers into our Platform Engineering Practice to technically consult for our clients' solutions.

About the role

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.

You will be hands on in projects to provide technical guidance and validation to the team and be responsible for stakeholder management, building client relationships and identifying new opportunities.

• Design and build reusable CI/CD templates, pipeline components, and infrastructure patterns.
• 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 and maintain and evolve how platform assets reach Engineering teams.
• Co-develop shared infrastructure components with federated platform teams, working within their governance and standards frameworks.
• Respond to feedback from delivery squads and treat consuming engineers as customers.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and participate in design reviews.

About you (ideally)

• 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.
• Ability to work autonomously on complex technical problems while collaborating closely with the team on shared standards.

We hire based on expertise, potential and enthusiasm to make a difference, then we give you the tools and skills you need to create impact. This role is based in our UK&I region.

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.

• a comprehensive health and wellness plan
• private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing)
• discounted gym memberships
• strong benefits package including a competitive pension scheme
• recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives
• 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, theater trips and much more.

We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation.