Cloud Engineering Manager - #1696859

Location – Leeds Hybrid

About Division/Function

Flutter Technology are recruiting a Cloud Engineering Manager, responsible for managing a team of engineers that will drive the implementation, automation, and operation of our greenfield AWS cloud platform. The platform will underpin the global services consumed by the groups well-known betting brands.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to influence the technology choices across Flutter’s cloud hosting platforms. You will collaborate with all brands across the group to migrate and modernize their services, deliver technology solutions to meet their needs, and promote knowledge sharing within the engineering community. You will also chip in to the evaluation and selection of AWS services, code and configuration management tools, and other components essential for achieving our group’s strategic objectives.

You will be effective at articulating technology requirements, promoting cloud enablement, migrations and the methodologies required to reduce risk and achieve desired outcomes. You should be comfortable working with cross functional global teams in dynamic organisations, as the role will have interdependencies with teams in AWS, our partners, and our own engineering teams across various functions in various brands.

The right candidate will have experience working with enterprise organisations on large scale migration/modernisation transformation projects. This will have involved a customer-focused and collaborative approach, coupled with a strong technical understanding to provide confidence and answer questions, an ability to engage and help crystallise business benefits of migrations, demonstrate an excellent technical understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping to transform using cloud technologies.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a hard working team of skilled cloud engineers.
• Prioritise and manage engineering activities within the team, embracing challenges & using agile methods.
• Build and operate a secure, performant, and cost-effective AWS Cloud Platform.
• Automate system deployment and operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling.
• Maintain source code and artefact repositories.
• Write and review platform code, offering constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
• Enable and support engineering teams with the adoption of cloud services.
• Triage incidents, problems, and risks impacting Flutter cloud services.
• Write and maintain appropriate technical documentation.
• Define, document, support, and approve LLDs for Flutter cloud services.
• Support cloud architecture and function leads with developing the cloud technology roadmap and strategy.
• Act as a trusted SME who is focused on offering advice and knowledge sharing to the broader technology team and internal customers.
• Build and drive adoption of standard operating procedures, policies, and runbooks.
• Facilitate the development and communication of Flutter Group standards for design, development, and deployment.
• Liaise with other group functions, building and maintaining relationships, and recognising opportunities for strategic collaboration.
• Liaise with Third Party vendors and partners.
• Maintain industry knowledge to continue developing your skills and enable your team to learn & grow.
• On-call is likely to be introduced in the future.
  
  

How You’ll Do It

• Leading small teams of engineers in the delivery and operation of AWS services.
• Building and operating Infrastructure and Cloud platforms, ideally within highly available AWS environments.
• Relocating, re-hosting, refactoring and re-architecting services into AWS.
• Working with source control management (Git, GitHub) and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Managing deployment assets such as AMIs, container images and artefacts.
• Managing Infrastructure as code using CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Orchestration and management of container platforms, preferably using Kubernetes.
• Delivering systems in security compliant environments
• Writing and maintaining technical documentation.
• Working together to achieve common goals & sharing knowledge with your peers and across the wider engineering community to learn and grow.
• Working in an agile environment.
• Incident, change, problem, and risk management.
• Bonus points for previous software engineering experience, coding, and automation.
  
  

Competencies

• Building Support: We establish close relationships, underpinned by trust, integrity, and respect. We are able to build awareness, understanding, and positive momentum behind the group technology strategy, often without being in a position to assert authority.
• Objective : We are impartial and unbiased, ensuring equal treatment for all and that decisions are based on objective criteria.
• Collaborative: We work effectively and in partnership with on shared goals that align towards the achievement of the group strategy. We cultivate a collaborative environment and assume the role of leader when required.
• Adaptable: We understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue and are able to adapt our approach in order to achieve a successful outcome.
• Critical Thinking: We think about the big picture and use that perspective to support our divisions to achieve competitive advantage through greater agility, faster time to market and a better customer experience.
• Communication: We are proactive and considered in our approach to team member communications. We actively listen, provide constructive feedback and help others to consider new points of view.
  
  

What’s In It For You

We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Hybrid working
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
• Recognition programs
• Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!
  
  

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world.

We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.

With our global scale and challenger mentality, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities

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.