Release Platform Engineer: Scalable Automation & Compliance

bet365; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

bet365 is seeking a Release Platform Engineer to build automated guardrails that keep our global development pipelines moving safely and quickly. You will manage our source-code-management estate, including GitLab, Sourcegraph, and supporting services like token rotation.

By leveraging Python, Go, React, and TypeScript, you will create in-house applications—from compliance dashboards to automated release engines that solve complex engineering challenges.

Qualifications

• Commercial software engineering experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with release pipelines, automation and compliance.
• Hands-on with GitLab, Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling.

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

Commercial software engineering

On-call experience

Tools

Python

Go

Bash

GitLab

Sourcegraph

Terraform

React

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

PostgreSQL

Job description

bet365 is seeking a Release Platform Engineer to build automated guardrails that keep our global development pipelines moving safely and quickly. You will manage our source-code-management estate, including GitLab, Sourcegraph, and supporting services like token rotation.

By leveraging Python, Go, React, and TypeScript, you will create in-house applications—from compliance dashboards to automated release engines that solve complex engineering challenges.