Platform Engineer

About Flutter UKI:

Flutter UK & Ireland are the UKI region of Flutter Entertainment. They unite a dozen brands including powerhouses Paddy Power Betfair Tombola and Sky Betting & Gaming bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.

Overview of the role:
The UKI Infrastructure and Platform team provides core services to our product and technology teams to enable them to have delivery and execution independence. As a Platform Engineer in the Flutter UKI Infrastructure and Platform team your role is essential for maintaining and evolving the organizations technology infrastructure to improve our customers enablement. Responsibilities include platform development and maintenance system monitoring and optimization capacity planning infrastructure automation security and compliance and incident management and support.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates Good Knowledge of Infrastructure & Platforms Systems: Applies a comprehensive understanding of group engineering systems management as key responsibility involves contributing to designs implementing and maintaining the Flutter UKI platform infrastructure. This includes both the development of new platforms and the improvement of existing ones to meet evolving business needs.

• Driving Improvements: actively seek out opportunities to improve processes adopt new technologies and enhance the reliability performance and security of the platform

• Automation Contributor: Actively seeks and implements automation solutions and practices to reduce reliance on manual processes and promote self-service

• Ownership: Exhibit ownership of squad deliverables demonstrating a sense of responsibility and accountability. Lead and take charge of a workstream or incident.

• Mentorship: Act as a mentor to peers in the squad actively sharing knowledge and teaching skills.

• Role Modelling: Serve as a role model both behaviourally and in terms of capabilities encouraging Associate/Graduate Engineers through their actions.

• Consistency: Demonstrate a consistent delivery approach providing a reliable and proven pair of hands in all tasks.

• Stakeholder Management: Exhibit comfort in engaging with non-technical stakeholders showcasing effective communication and high-level engagement.

• Collaboration: Developing effective communication and collaboration with other teams such as development and operations. Youll work closely with these teams on initiatives embracing feedback with a positive attitude.

Skills Capabilities & Experience Required:

Experience with managing the following technologies:

• Splunk

• Vault

• Sensu

• Elasticsearch/ECE

Experience coding with:

• Python

• Ruby

• Golang

Solid understanding of using the supported products in a production environment:

• CDK

• Kubernetes/Docker

• Networking

• AWS

• Git

• Jenkins (or similar CI system)

• Configuration Management (Chef Ansible)

• General Linux operations.

• Infrastructure Specific Products (Virtualization Storage technologies Hardware appliances)

• Aptitude for evaluating and embracing new technologies and tooling.

• Experience with managing high-load high-performance applications.

• AWS experience supporting cloud native infrastructure through tooling and automation.

• Able to input into the ways of working and structure of the squad: Develop engineers; Identify and fill skills gaps.

Strong People and communication skills.

Why choose us:

Aside from a generous base salary we have a fantastic benefits & rewards program that is designed to encourage personal and career development.

• 30 days paid leave

• Health and Dental Insurance for you your partner and your children (if you all live at the same address)

• Personal life insurance and disability coverage

• Wellbeing fund

• A sports card membership valid across the country

• Discounts as a compliment form us among different services

• Monthly food vouchers

• Free snacks fruit and drinks in the office

Equal opportunities:

At Flutter we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where our people can be their authentic selves and thrive. We embrace and celebrate diversity respecting all our uniqueness and differences.

We welcome you to let us know whether you have any accessibility needs. All you need to do is email us at . Your journey with us is focused on ensuring you have what you need to be your best self.

Learn more about the works we are doing on Inclusion and Belonging here: group:

Flutter UKI is a proud member of the Flutter Entertainment family a global leader in sports betting iGaming and entertainment. Were not just another company; were listed on both the prestigious FTSE 100 index on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). What sets us apart is our world class brands cutting-edge products and our International division includes our operations in over 100 global markets and offers sports betting casino poker rummy and lottery mainly online. What truly defines us is our commitment to ensuring that the excitement of gaming and entertainment is experienced in a responsible and sustainable way. Our remarkable team of over 8000 colleagues drives this vision spread across 28 offices worldwide

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