Senior Cloud Engineer - #1706488

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Location – Leeds or Dublin

Hybrid - 2 days per week

Flutter Technology are recruiting a Senior Cloud Engineer to take a leading role in driving the implementation, automation, and operation of our evolving AWS-based Internal Developer Platform. This platform is foundational to the global services consumed by Flutter's well-known betting brands, enabling faster delivery, improved reliability, and enhanced developer experience across the group.

In this senior capacity, you won't just engineer; you will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the technological trajectory for Flutter’s cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with brands across the group to migrate and modernise their services, deliver innovative platform capabilities, set technical standards, and promote knowledge-sharing and best practices across the engineering community. Your experience will be crucial in the evaluation, selection and implementation of AWS services, platform tooling (including IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability), and the variety of components required to achieve our group strategic objectives.

As a highly effective senior engineer, you adeptly translate requirements, champion cloud-native practices and platform adoption, and implement risk-reducing methodologies within dynamic, global teams. Drawing on experience from enterprise-scale cloud transformations, your deep technical expertise, passion for cloud, and collaborative approach provide confidence and articulate business value. You're will offer technical leadership (potentially shaping our API strategy), mentor others, contribute strategically, and navigate complex interdependencies.

About Division/Function

Flutter consists of two commercial divisions (Fanduel and International) and our central Flutter Functions; COO, Finance & Legal. Here in Flutter Functions we work with colleagues across all our divisions and regions to deliver something we call the Flutter Edge. It’s what differentiates us, our ‘secret sauce’ which plays a key part in our ongoing success and powers our brands and divisions, through Product, Tech, Expertise and Scale.

In Flutter COO we work with experts across Flutter to build, deploy and communicate the Flutter Edge. Together we cover Product & Payments, Technology, Sportsbook Product & Trading, People, Property, Corporate Communications and Strategic Partnerships & Transformation.

What You’ll Do

• Build and operate a secure, performant, and cost-effective AWS Cloud Platform.
• Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform, ensuring its scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Spearhead the automation strategy using advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies (Crossplane, Terraform, CDK) and configuration management tooling, driving towards a self-service developer experience.
• Own and implement standard processes for source code management (Git/GitHub) and artifact repositories (e.g., container registries, Helm repositories), ensuring security and consistency.
• Drive technical design reviews, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and setting high standards for code quality. Enable and support engineering teams with the adoption of cloud services.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers within the team, fostering their technical growth, reviewing their work, and ensuring their success.
• Actively contribute to the platform’s technical roadmap and strategy, collaborating with architects, product managers, and leadership to define future direction.
• Lead the troubleshooting of complex incidents, problems, and risks impacting the platforms services, driving sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems.
• Author, oversee, and ensure the quality of technical documentation, LLDs, runbooks, and architectural diagrams.
• Lead the evaluation and integration of new tools and technologies (e.g., within the Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and observability ecosystems).
• Ensure the platform meets stringent security and compliance requirements, embedding security throughout the design and operational lifecycle.
• Liaise with Third Party vendors and partners.
• On-call is likely to be introduced in the future.
  
  

How You’ll Do It

• Significant, demonstrable experience building, operating, and scaling cloud platforms within highly available AWS environments.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS preferred) architecture, operations, and ecosystem tooling.
• Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Crossplane, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) at scale.
• Proven experience implementing and managing GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Strong, practical experience designing and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Strong programming and scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) applied to automation, platform development, and tooling.
• Mastery of Git and collaborative development workflows (GitHub).
• Extensive experience working with Linux operating systems in cloud environments.
• In-depth understanding of cloud security principles and proven experience delivering systems in security-compliant environments.
• Proven ability to design, document (LLDs), and implement complex technical solutions independently.
• Experience leading technical initiatives or feature development within a platform or cloud team.
• Experience managing deployment assets like container images, Helm charts, and operators.
• Demonstrable experience with incident, change, problem, and risk management processes in a production environment.
• Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Collaborative: Exceptional ability to work effectively, build strong relationships, and influence stakeholders in crossfunctional, global teams. Outstanding communication skills.
• Objective & Analytical: Impartial, data-driven approach to decision-making. Excellent complex troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Adaptable & Strategic: Ability to grasp the big picture, navigate ambiguity, adapt approaches, and translate strategic goals into technical solutions.
• Proactive & Considered Communicator: Actively listens, provides constructive feedback, clearly articulates complex ideas, and influences effectively. Passion for sharing knowledge.
• Experience architecting and implementing large-scale service migrations (rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting) to AWS.
• Broader software engineering background (distributed systems design, API design, testing methodologies).
• Experience specifically building platform APIs or developer-facing tools.
• Relevant AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Security Specialty, Advanced Networking Specialty).
• Kubernetes Certifications (e.g., CKA, CKS).
• Experience presenting technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  
  

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 reinvent 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.