Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud Infra (Remote UK)

Fanatics; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive core infrastructure and developer experience. You will design durable platform abstractions, partner with engineering leads, and ship production code with a focus on stability and security.

You will mentor engineers, own incidents, and advance modern engineering practices while leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or backend engineering in cloud-native environments.
• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools to ship production code.
• Experience with IaC using Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation.
• Strong Java and Python; knowledge of Golang is a plus.
• Experience building mature CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Implement AI-augmented development standards with validation frameworks.
• Identify AI-generated code risks and track team productivity metrics.
• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure on AWS/Kubernetes.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Implement platform security safeguards and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to observability roadmap with monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers, lead incident response, and promote best practices.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

Python

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Observability

AI copilots

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

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Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive core infrastructure and developer experience. You will design durable platform abstractions, partner with engineering leads, and ship production code with a focus on stability and security.

You will mentor engineers, own incidents, and advance modern engineering practices while leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and quality.