Platform Engineer – Deployment Automation - FanDuel Careers

FanDuel; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online gaming company is seeking a Platform Engineer in Edinburgh to enhance developer services and tooling using infrastructure-as-code. The ideal candidate will have experience with Python and cloud environments like AWS. This role offers opportunities for personal development, a great financial package, and a hybrid work arrangement.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus and pension

Private healthcare

Flexible working and holiday policy

Learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in scripting or service development, ideally Python.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD processes.
• Keen to learn and work with new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and support tools for managing infrastructure through code.
• Create best practices for infrastructure management.
• Follow best practices to create high-quality code.

Skills

Scripting or service development (ideally Python)

Infrastructure-as-code implementations

CI/CD tooling

Building cloud-based solutions (ideally with AWS)

Ability to build relationships

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Edinburgh / Hybrid Platform Engineering

The Position

Joining ourDeployment Automationteam, you will be a Platform Engineer with experience working in a cloud environmentwithPython (or similar). You’ll be working in an internal development team focusing on improving our developer services and tooling byworking on our infrastructure-as-codetoolchains.

In this role you’ll get to see the benefit that you provide to your customers (our other development teams)on a daily basisand see the positive impact and difference you can make to their working lives.

Our stackincludes:Terraform,Python, AWS,andCI/CD pipelines. We don’t expect experience with all of these - the team will support you in learning and developing your skillset, and FanDuel advocates for continuous learning!

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Building and supporting tools/frameworks that automate how development teams managetheir infrastructure through code
• Creating and promoting best practices generally in your role, but specifically around managinginfrastructure through code
• Followingbest practices to create high quality code
• Be a team player, reflecting FanDuel values everyday

What We’re Looking For

• Experience inscripting or servicedevelopment (ideally Python)
• Experience withinfrastructure-as-code implementations and best practices
• Experience contributing toCI/CD tooling and processes
• Experience building cloud-based solutions and configurations(ideallywithAWS)
• Keen to learn and work with new technologies
• Ability to build relationships with colleagues across the company

What You Can Expect

• Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
• A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feelreally proudof what you and your team created
• Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
• Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
• Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
• Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along witha number ofother benefits.

The Interview Process

• Technical Paired Programming Exercise (Python) - 60mins
• Technical competency conversation – 60 min

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Weendeavorto make our interview process as accessible as possible. If you need any assistance prior to your interview, including any reasonable adjustments, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

We operate a hybrid model for the majority of our roles, where we normally spend a day or two in the office per week.