Lead Platform Engineer

Job summary

Lead the platform engineering team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable infrastructure for online gaming products and services. The role drives cloud-native architecture, infrastructure automation with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker, developer self-service and CI/CD, security, and observability. It also owns the technical roadmap and works with compliance to meet iGaming standards, including GLI and UKGC.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a leadership or senior role.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Software engineering experience with Go, Python, Java, or another modern programming language.
• Ability to design and build highly scalable, resilient, distributed systems.
• Knowledge of information security and iGaming regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including production incident diagnosis.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in B2B iGaming or another high-transactional, regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Design robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant platform architecture.
• Lead, mentor, and manage platform engineers.
• Automate cloud provisioning and maintain consistent, reproducible, cost-effective environments.
• Embed security best practices in platform design and processes.
• Define and own the platform technical roadmap.
• Provide self-service tools, automated CI/CD pipelines, and standardized developer workflows.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Work with compliance to meet GLI and UKGC technical standards.

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