Senior Platform Engineer - London

About Red Badger

We’re a tech and product consultancy, building enterprise software and data products for blue chip companies, multinationals and PLC’s. The best thing about Red Badger is; of course; the team. We’ve been around for 15+ years now and we are over 120 strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages. Headquartered in London we also have offices in Leeds and Cape Town.

The Role

The Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer has deep expertise in building and operating digital and data products, particularly within complex client environments and multi-team projects.

This role plays a key part in delivering high-quality outcomes through strategic influence, hands-on support, and deep domain knowledge.

You will collaborate closely with Product and Delivery roles, as well as Technical and Delivery Leads, to ensure that technology choices align with both client goals and Red Badger’s value propositions.

You will engage with the wider team and stakeholders to consult and influence on topics such as technology adoption, continuous delivery, team structure, deployment strategy, and organisational policy.

Your ability to guide clients through emerging technologies and industry best practice will help create the conditions for teams to succeed with autonomy and impact.

As a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, you elevate those around you by supercharging delivery teams, mentoring others, and embedding technical excellence at every level. You bring thought leadership, pragmatism, and curiosity to solving complex problems, and are trusted to represent Red Badger in high-level client conversations with confidence and clarity.

Hands-on work is expected to be the majority of the role - demonstrating by doing, but also be prepared to get involved in thought leadership, sharing your knowledge with other badgers, and high value consulting activities.

Key Responsibilities

Discipline expertise

Supporting lean approach to software delivery and overall solution design and focus on delivering maximum value with minimal effort
Providing input into architectural framework and solution design
Advocating innovative approach / use of new technology where appropriate
Ensuring quality through coaching, pairing & reviewing code
Advocating for simplicity in design approach, ways of working and tool choice
Deep technical expertise and teaching mindset
Upskilling Red Badger software engineers in new technologies and approaches
Contributing to raising technology discipline standards within Red Badger

Collaborative leadership

Feed into account level technology leadership / governance
Contributing to the overall success of the Red Badger client engagement
Potentially leading multiple technology teams across a programme of work
Aligning Badger / client teams on appropriate processes & tooling

Influencing our clients

Consulting on areas of technology expertise
Operating as trusted advisor consulting on client technology strategy, technology roadmap Coaching senior client technology stakeholders

It’d be great if you have

Experience with the following tools and technologies:
Terraform
FLUX
Kyverno
Istio
Github Actions
Prometheus/OTEL
Extensive experience with cloud platforms - especially AWS., and understanding of progressive ways of managing infrastructure, such as infrastructure-as-code,
Extensive experience with container/image management and orchestration tools such as Docker, K8s/EKS
Experience with setting up modern CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery and deployment and good understanding of the trade-offs (e.g. pipelines-as-code, monorepos, GitOps, branching and release strategies, etc.)
An understanding of information security including common attack vectors, awareness of relevant regulation and restrictions (e.g. PCI, GDPR…)
Experience in design and testing strategies to enable gradual evolution of systems over time