Red Bull Technology

Platform Engineer

Milton Keynes Full time

Precision, performance, and passion drive everything we do—including supporting our business functions.  Our teams ensure seamless operations in a high-performance environment. Ready to make an impact behind the scenes of elite motorsport? Join us!

Purpose: 

Design, build and operate reliable, scalable platform services that support engineering and simulation workloads across on-premises and cloud environments. The role focuses on delivering well-engineered compute and underlying infrastructure platforms using Linux-based systems, automation, DevOps practices and containerised workloads. Working closely with Developer teams, this role contributes to the operation and continuous improvement of platforms built.

Accountabilities: 

  • Design, implement and maintain innovative platforms end-to-end for the Technology Campus

  • Provide advanced technical support and manage problem escalations from users communicating well and recording in ticketing management system

  • Own the existing on-prem and in-cloud platforms and proactively monitor the environment for issues and areas of optimisation identifying and architecting solutions

  • Drive automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices to improve reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency of platform services

  • Contribute to platform governance forums, providing technical input, sharing knowledge, and supporting alignment across infrastructure and engineering teams

  • Enable efficient and reliable consumption of platform services by internal teams, with a focus on usability, repeatability, and reduced operational friction

Essential Competencies:

  • Expert knowledge administering Linux/Unix systems

  • Experience in scripting and programming e.g. Python, Bash, Go

  • Network knowledge of InfiniBand, MPI and Ethernet concepts

  • Awareness of good security practices

  • Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools (Ansible, Git, Vault)

  • Knowledge of container orchestration tools, virtualisation and observability stacks e.g. Kubernetes, Grafana, Kafka, Docker, OpenStack, OLVM

  • Experience working to DevOps practices

Want to be part of the team that keeps things running behind the scenes at Red Bull Racing? Join our Support Functions and you’ll get more than just a competitive salary you will also get access to our brilliant benefits offering including:

  • Bonus scheme

  • Private healthcare

  • A pension scheme

  • On-site gym

  • Free daily food allowance

  • And many more!

Sound good? Come be part of something special. Let’s make great things happen—together.

Job Posting End Date

Fri, 13 Mar 2026