Senior Platform Engineer - Core - Platform (UK)

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team, focusing on either Runtime/Compute or Developer Experience/CICD. This role involves working with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling. The Senior Platform Engineer will define standards, improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity, and work closely with various engineering and IT teams.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering
• Proficiency with Python and Java
• Familiarity with Kotlin and Go is a plus
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform)
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver defined projects independently
• Clear communication and strong collaboration skills
• Experience with internal developer platforms or tooling
• Exposure to regulated or high-availability environments
• Backend development experience (Java, Python, Go, or similar)
• Familiarity with observability and reliability engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver medium to large platform projects from implementation through production
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling to improve developer experience and delivery velocity
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs
• Drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization across cloud and infrastructure
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response

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