Remote Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Powered Cloud

Fanatics; Leeds; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office setup stipend

Remote-friendly work (UK)

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive core infrastructure and developer experience within our cloud-native platform, leveraging AWS/Kubernetes. You will own complex features from ideation to production, mentor engineers, and champion secure, observable systems and scalable CI/CD pipelines.

We embrace AI-assisted development with tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot to ship high‑quality production code. UK remote candidates welcome.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or backend engineering.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS/Kubernetes).
• Proficient in using AI collaborators (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot).
• Evaluate AI-generated code for security gaps and test rigorously.
• Hands-on with IaC frameworks: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation.
• Proficient in Java and Python; Golang a plus.
• Experience building mature CI/CD pipelines and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Strong ownership and collaboration in fast-paced, distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement team-level standards for AI-augmented development, utilizing prompt engineering and validation frameworks to increase velocity without sacrificing code quality.
• Identify and mitigate AI-generated code pitfalls, such as security vulnerabilities or over-abstraction, and assist in tracking team productivity metrics.
• Design, build, and maintain highly available cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring the platform scales reliably with our growing user base.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling to eliminate friction in the software delivery lifecycle.
• Implement and maintain platform security safeguards and compliance standards to protect the integrity of the firm’s systems.
• Contribute to the system observability roadmap by implementing monitoring, tracing, and alerting to ensure high operational reliability.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate technical requirements into scalable platform solutions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, lead incident response for team-owned services, and advocate for modern engineering best practices.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

Python

Golang

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Mentoring

Security testing

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive core infrastructure and developer experience within our cloud-native platform, leveraging AWS/Kubernetes. You will own complex features from ideation to production, mentor engineers, and champion secure, observable systems and scalable CI/CD pipelines.

We embrace AI-assisted development with tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot to ship high‑quality production code. UK remote candidates welcome.