Hybrid Release Platform Engineer

bet365 Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

bet365 Group is hiring a Release Platform Engineer to build automated guardrails for global development pipelines and release approvals. You will manage the SCM estate (GitLab, Artifactory) and create in-house apps using Python, Go, React, and TypeScript. The role includes on-call duties and a hybrid work-from-home policy.

You will automate repetitive tasks, leverage AI tools, and enhance release security and compliance across platforms, containers, and pipelines, driving reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform roles.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Go or Bash.
• Strong understanding of version control systems like GitLab and Artifactory.
• Practical knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Hands-on experience with AI-native engineering, including LLM platforms and prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL and AlloyDB.
• Frontend development skills using React and TypeScript.
• Understanding of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards within source-code management.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve release and compliance platforms built in Python and Go.
• Support automated release approvals and software-change auditing.
• Administer the source-code-management tooling estate and supporting services.
• Develop and maintain user interfaces using React and TypeScript.
• Ensure application availability and resolve issues across the platform estate.
• Write automation and integrations to reduce manual toil.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform; containerise services with Docker on Kubernetes (GKE) hosted on GCP.
• Participate in on-call services as a technical escalation point.
• Build dashboards and alerts to monitor pipeline reliability.
• Coach and mentor colleagues across the wider engineering function.

Skills

DevOps

Python

Go

Bash

AI/LLM tooling

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Windows

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Security standards

Tools

GitLab

Artifactory

Terraform

Docker

GKE

Google Cloud (GCP)

Job description

bet365 Group is hiring a Release Platform Engineer to build automated guardrails for global development pipelines and release approvals. You will manage the SCM estate (GitLab, Artifactory) and create in-house apps using Python, Go, React, and TypeScript. The role includes on-call duties and a hybrid work-from-home policy.

You will automate repetitive tasks, leverage AI tools, and enhance release security and compliance across platforms, containers, and pipelines, driving reliability at scale.