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Red Badger

Digital product transformation consultancy for enterprises

Principal Platform Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated
No salary listed
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Cape Town, South Africa
In Person
DevOps & InfrastructurePlatform Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience with Terraform, Flux, Kyverno, Istio, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Extensive experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS, and progressive infrastructure management approaches such as infrastructure as code.
  • Extensive experience with container and image management and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
  • Experience setting up modern continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to support continuous delivery and deployment, and understanding related trade-offs such as pipelines as code, monorepos, GitOps, branching, and release strategies.
  • Understanding of information security, including common attack vectors and relevant regulations and restrictions such as PCI and GDPR.
  • Experience designing and testing strategies that enable gradual system evolution.
  • Understanding of data storage approaches, tools, and trade-offs, including relational database management systems, key-value stores, column stores, and log storage.
  • Understanding of applying cryptography in software development, including TLS, PKI, HMAC, and hashing algorithms.
  • Experience in a consulting environment with client engagements.
  • Ability to influence senior client stakeholders and support teams with technology and process enablers for continuous delivery and DevOps ways of working.
  • Experience establishing good engineering practices focused on lean, cross-discipline, continuous delivery.
Responsibilities
  • Support a lean approach to software delivery and overall solution design, focusing on delivering maximum value with minimal effort.
  • Provide architectural frameworks and solution design.
  • Advocate innovative approaches and use of new technology where appropriate.
  • Ensure quality through coaching, pairing, and code review.
  • Advocate simplicity in design approaches, ways of working, and tool choices.
  • Upskill software engineers in new technologies and approaches.
  • Contribute to raising technology discipline standards within the organization.
  • Feed into account-level technology leadership and governance.
  • Contribute to the overall success of client engagements.
  • Potentially lead multiple technology teams across a programme of work.
  • Align internal and client teams on appropriate processes and tooling.
  • Consult on areas of technology expertise.
  • Operate as a trusted advisor on client technology strategy and roadmaps, and coach senior client technology stakeholders.
  • Represent the company in high-level client conversations and guide clients on emerging technologies and industry best practice.
  • Contribute thought leadership, share knowledge, and undertake high-value consulting activities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience running live services with significant user volume and establishing appropriate service-level objectives and error budgets for services and applications.
  • Experience designing observability strategies for systems with multiple components.

About the company

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Red Badger

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Red Badger is a digital product transformation consultant for large organisations and scale-ups. It helps teams tackle complex, customer-facing challenges by delivering digital products that matter and customers love. The company combines robust product design with deep engineering expertise to embed new ways of working and build high-performance platforms primed for innovation, creating lasting business change. Clients include Santander, Tesco, Levi’s, Nando’s, NHS, London Business School and Sky. Its goal is to drive meaningful business impact by aligning design, engineering, and organisational practices to deliver compelling digital experiences.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2010

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May 2nd, 2023
Red Badger & Contentful Partnership

Red Badger, The Digital Product transformation consultancy for blue chips, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Contentful, a leading composable content platform for digital-first business.In today’s digital-first world, for businesses of all sizes, across market sectors, digital content is at the heart of the customer experience. To build successful customer relationships, businesses need their content to be infinitely composable — easily adapting to new challenges and opportunities as the accelerated pace of the market demands. Businesses must move faster to keep up with evolving customer expectations and new market opportunities.The Contentful® Composable Content Platform makes this possible by bringing the building blocks of content together so businesses can create once and reuse for any digital experience.The API-first platform integrates easily with data sources and new functionality as digital experiences and technology evolve. With built-in orchestration, a robust app ecosystem, and app framework to easily extend the platform, Contentful frees teams across the business to work together to connect, create, and extend content more efficiently. Contentful helps companies unlock the power of digital content so they can build faster and deliver at scale, making their content a strategic business asset.This partnership with Contentful will advance Red Badger’s ability to deliver best-in-class digital experiences for customers. Red Badger’s pioneering teams thrive on complex, business-critical problems, in big complex organisations such as Nando’s, Sky, Security Bank, Santander and BBC.“We are delighted to announce this partnership with Contentful, bolstering our capabilities and giving us the ability to manage content across multiple platforms

FF News
Mar 7th, 2023
Red Badger Announces The Launch Of Crux - Headless App Development Framework In Rust

Red Badger, the Digital Product transformation consultancy for blue-chips, announces a new approach to writing custom, multi-platform applications by sharing an application’s behaviour as a single and easy-to-test Rust core that can be consumed with confidence across every UI platform.Rust has proven itself a safe, scalable and performant language, beloved by engineers, especially as a system language. It is emerging now as the language of choice for big tech and is fast being adopted by consumer-facing enterprises. In this area, where the human interface is a critical differentiator of digital products and services, most apps need to be built three times. Once for iOS (hopefully in Swift), once for Android (hopefully in Kotlin), and once for web (hopefully in TypeScript). This approach offers no code reuse, no saving of effort, and no learning from issues.Options available to date include React Native (with the need to think about Web separately). Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM), or Flutter (with Dart)

FF News
Feb 24th, 2023
Red Badger And Security Bank Partner For Innovative Customer-Centric Digital Capabilities

Red Badger, the Digital Product transformation consultancy for blue chips, announces the launch of a new digital customer onboarding journey for Security Bank, one of the Philippines’ leading universal banks.As it continues its digital transformation journey and investing in what matters most to customers, Security Bank delivers on its mandate to innovate and provide differentiated products, services, and experiences.The partnership between Security Bank and Red Badger began in November 2021, as they jointly set out to bring a lean, agile, product-led approach to developing new experiences for customers. They co-created a product discovery, cloud-native platform architecture, and implementation plan, to build and release a new experience to customers within six months.Red Badger conducted a discovery session with the Bank to identify technology and a customer-centric approaches to how to improve the current online onboarding process. On top of this, they did a series of usability testing procedures to identify customer needs and pain points.A cross-functional team of both Red Badger and Security Bank members —focused on creating streamlined digital onboarding for originating retail products. Using lean and agile approaches, the team delivered: a production deployment within two months, followed by a customer-facing release within six months; a reduction in customer lead times from seven days to 11 minutes; and a circa 100% increase in the rate of successful completions. The product was built alongside an entirely new cloud-native platform, improving time-to-market and increasing resilience, while maintaining compliance with infosec, compliance, and regulatory complexities within the organisation and the industry.David Wynne, Red Badger CEO, said: “This project demonstrates Red Badger’s unmatched ability to introduce new digital approaches, technologies, and ways of working to large banks quickly and safely – rapidly putting value in the hands of customers. By getting close to real-world customer needs and demonstrating how new technologies underpin continuous innovation, we help our established banking clients compete with digital natives and challengers.”Tricia Tan, Senior Vice President and Customer Segmentation Group Head at Security Bank said, “We’re focused on becoming the most customer-centric bank in the Philippines

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Nov 29th, 2022
Adyen helps Red Badger to strengthen payment capabilities

Digital consultancy Red Badger has partnered with financial technology provider Adyen to integrate end-to-end payment capabilities into its digital product offering, which will enable it to enhance its customers’ digital transformation journeys.