Senior Platform Engineer: Architect of Self-Serve DevTools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness plan

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Office yoga sessions & massages

Pension scheme & volunteering day

Job summary

GlobalLogic in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a central platform for all software teams. You will build CI/CD templates, AI agent configurations, and reusable patterns that are discoverable, self-service, and instrumented for adoption.

You’ll work with GitLab CI, Terraform/Kubernetes, and agent-based tooling to deliver secure, scalable, reusable assets.

Qualifications

• Strong software and platform engineering with production experience building developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code (or equivalent agentic CLI tooling) and writing custom skills.
• Platform-as-a-product mindset with reusable assets and strong discoverability.
• Experience with GitLab CI; ability to build reusable templates/components.
• IaC experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation and container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Understanding of AI-native SDLC practices and embedding them in platform tooling.
• Experience publishing reusable packages/templates with versioning and docs.
• Security-first engineering: SAST/DAST integration, secret management, policy-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable CI/CD templates and infrastructure patterns for the central platform.
• Develop Claude Code skills, subagents, and MCP servers for AI tooling across teams.
• Implement golden path templates including scaffolding and security guardrails.
• Manage distribution, versioning, and documentation of platform assets.
• Co-develop shared infra components with federated platform teams under governance.
• Respond to feedback from delivery squads and evolve patterns accordingly.
• Design assets to be self-service with docs and examples reducing support tickets.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure automation

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

Security-first engineering

Agentic CLI tooling

Project scaffolding & templates

Platform as a product mindset

Tools

Claude Code

Backstage

Cookiecutter

Yeoman

Hygen

Copier

Helm

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

GlobalLogic in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a central platform for all software teams. You will build CI/CD templates, AI agent configurations, and reusable patterns that are discoverable, self-service, and instrumented for adoption.

You’ll work with GitLab CI, Terraform/Kubernetes, and agent-based tooling to deliver secure, scalable, reusable assets.