Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Fanatics; Leeds; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics in Leeds is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their Platform Engineering capabilities across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems. The role involves project ownership, improving developer tooling, and mentoring junior engineers.

The ideal candidate will possess 5–7 years of experience, strong AWS and Kubernetes skills, and a collaborative mindset. The position offers a salary range of £96,000 – £120,000 depending on location, with opportunities for periodic travel to the United States.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Familiarity with Kotlin, Go is a plus.
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems.
• Clear communication and strong collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation through production.
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling.
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery.
• Drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization.

Skills

Platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering

Python proficiency

Java proficiency

Kubernetes knowledge

CI/CD experience

Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform)

AWS and cloud-native experience

Strong communication skills

Collaboration skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Fanatics in Leeds is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their Platform Engineering capabilities across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems. The role involves project ownership, improving developer tooling, and mentoring junior engineers.

The ideal candidate will possess 5–7 years of experience, strong AWS and Kubernetes skills, and a collaborative mindset. The position offers a salary range of £96,000 – £120,000 depending on location, with opportunities for periodic travel to the United States.