Platform Engineer

Amelco Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme - company matched up to

Staff Benefits Portal access

Yearly discretionary bonus

Office travel to Poland & Hungary

Job summary

Amelco Limited is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our platform team in London. You will maintain production infrastructure and build the next generation of platform services to scale operations and developer self-service capabilities.

You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, deployment pipelines, and platform services, balancing reliability with platform development. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and collaboration with development teams to drive platform maturity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Platform Engineering, Infra, or DevOps.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Strong scripting (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Understanding CI/CD and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain production infrastructure and scale platform services.
• Build self-service platform features for development teams.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling to improve ops efficiency.
• Implement GitOps workflows and IaC patterns.
• Design observability dashboards and alerting systems.
• Collaborate with dev teams to understand requirements and document runbooks.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Scripting

Communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Prometheus

GitOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio/Linkerd

Job description

We are a leading gaming and gambling solution software provider building cutting-edge platforms across sportsbooks, lottery, casino, and financial trading. We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join our platform team as we evolve our operations and build more sophisticated platform capabilities.

The Role

You’ll join our platform team during an exciting growth phase. You’ll maintain our production infrastructure while building the next generation of platform services. This role balances operational excellence with platform development—helping us scale from manual operations to developer self-service over time.

You’ll work across our full technology stack, from AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters to deployment pipelines and platform services for our development teams.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Production Operations

• Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS EKS clusters across development, staging, and production environments
• Ensure high availability and performance of core platform services and databases
• Handle infrastructure requests and support development teams with platform needs
• Participate in production incident response and resolution

Platform Development & Automation

• Build platform services that enable development team self-service for common operations
• Create automation scripts and tooling to improve operational efficiency
• Implement and improve GitOps workflows using Flux for infrastructure management
• Develop Terraform modules and AWS infrastructure as code patterns
• Design and build observability dashboards and alerting systems
• Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements and design effective platform solutions
• Document operational processes and create platform runbooks
• Establish platform standards and best practices for service deployment
• Contribute to evolving our platform capabilities and operational maturity

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Experience

• 3+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps roles
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, logging systems)
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) for automation and tool development
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Critical Skills & Mindset

• Experience balancing production operations with strategic platform development
• Ability to work effectively in scaling environments while driving continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with development teams
• Problem-solving mindset focused on building sustainable platform solutions
• Willingness to tackle both operational responsibilities and long-term platform building

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with GitOps implementations (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD) or AWS certifications
• Knowledge of gaming/betting platform architecture and requirements
• Experience with service mesh implementations (Istio, Linkerd)
• Background in platform engineering or internal developer platform initiatives

What You’ll Work With

• Infrastructure: AWS EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, FluxCD GitOps
• Observability: Grafana with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo
• Deployment: Docker containers, Helm charts, automated release pipelines
• Platform Services: ExternalSecrets, ALB ingress controllers, service mesh
• Development Environment: Java Spring Boot and React applications requiring production stability

Why This Role Is Valuable

This position offers a powerful combination of operational responsibility and platform innovation. You’ll:

• Ensure the reliability of live betting operations while building improved platform capabilities
• Work at the intersection of infrastructure operations and developer productivity
• Have measurable impact on platform reliability and team efficiency
• Help shape the evolution of our platform engineering practices
• Pension Scheme: Amelco matches up to 7% contributions of your base salary for all staff. You will automatically be entered at 4%.
• Staff Benefits Scheme: access to the staff benefits portal after successful completion of a 4-month probation period.
• Yearly discretionary bonus scheme and pay reviews
• Opportunity to travel and visit our office in Poland and Hungary