Senior Platform Engineer – Flutter UK&I

Job Description

Industry: Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting
Seniority for this role: Mid-Senior level
A new opportunity has opened up for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Capabilities team, part of our UK & Ireland Infrastructure tribe! As Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting Flutter UK&I’s internal next-generation Infrastructure automation. Your squad will consist of highly skilled engineers whom your experience and guidance will strengthen. The squad’s goal is to enable our Tribes to evolve their software and services with minimal friction. Being excited to work with the latest technologies, you will develop solutions driven by business priorities and internal customer requirements. This role will give you the opportunity to have an influence our infrastructure automation strategy. Your role in ‘better’ Designing, developing, supporting, and optimising our next-gen automation based on Kubernetes Operators written in Go and deployed to Kubernetes. Designing and implementing projects for new automation and shared tooling. Developing in Go and other languages where necessary. Planning and developing CI/CD pipelines using Groovy for Jenkins Pipelines and Job DSL. Supporting other teams with automation and shared toolset queries and requests. Work closely with other teams, implementing changes that help improve speed and release quality. Write and keep up-to-date documentation. Own improvements to the tools, following the software development lifecycle through tests and into live. You will help ensure our services meet their service level objectives through automated monitoring and alerting. You will proactively investigate the performance of our services to identify enhancements and report service metrics to the SLM team. Keep up to date with the latest open-source technology, and best practises and suggest areas where new tools or practices can help the business achieve its goals. How you’ll create ‘better’ Working experience with at least one programming language, preferably Golang. AWS experience supporting cloud native infrastructure through tooling and automation. Working knowledge of using the supported products in a production environment including Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CDK, Networking, AWS, Git, Jenkins (or similar CI system) & general Linux operations. A deep understanding of how firewall, DNS, and load balancing functions. Good knowledge of MySQL, from a user and maintainer perspective. Experience with managing high-load, high-performance applications. Able to help develop and prioritise a roadmap for the supported products and services. Able to input into the ways of working and structure of the squad, to develop engineers and identify and fill skills gaps. Strong people and communication skills. What you can expect: An open and collaborative team who value and respect each other; An autonomous environment where you are empowered to make decisions; 25 days of annual leave; Share save scheme and „Flexible Benefits” of your choice; Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments); Excellent development opportunities including online and in-house training, access to thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy’. Ways of working: Flexible working is our way of working! We’re a diverse workforce and therefore a ‘one size fits all’ approach isn’t necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let’s have a chat and see how we can accommodate them; We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview. By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective Paddy Power Betfair role.z We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them. Show more Show less