Senior Platform Engineer - FinOps

Entain; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive technology company in the City of London is seeking a professional to drive cost optimisation and financial efficiency across platform infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have AWS expertise and experience in implementing cost-saving initiatives. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits including hybrid working, private medical insurance, and generous bonus schemes.

Benefits

Generous bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Pension Scheme - matched to 6%

Ability to buy and sell holiday

Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional certification required.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Cost Anomaly Detection.
• Proven cost optimisation across developer tools, such as GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Drive cost optimisation and financial efficiency across platform infrastructure.
• Implement cost alerts and budget monitoring tools.
• Track costs and generate cost reports for platform services.

Skills

Cost optimisation

AWS Cost Explorer

Infrastructure automation

Analytical skills

Kubernetes expertise

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

DataDog

Job description

Company Description

Angstrom is a proprietary sports pricing and product provider, building intricate, simulation driven pricing and risk systems to support the success of key sports brands across the Entain group.

Founded in 2018 and having established itself as a pioneer in player-level, play-by-play simulations and forecasting, Angstrom was acquired by Entain in 2023. Today, we operate as a semi-autonomous division, responsible for delivering the group's most advanced pricing and risk capabilities with a focus on the US market. We're committed to building the next generation of sports betting products - sports-first, recreationally-focused, and designed to make betting more engaging, more intelligent, and more fun.

We're proud to be a high-performing, low-ego team where brilliant people are empowered and people work to become brilliant. While we're ambitious and delivery-driven, we take real pride in how we operate and the health of our independent culture, underpinned by mutual trust and respect.

Job Description

You will drive cost optimisation and financial efficiency across all platform infrastructure and services and work with engineering teams to enable real-time cost visibility and adoption of self-service tools while implementing automated cost controls to reduce cloud expenditure, bridge technical and financial domains to maximise platform value.

• Design, optimise and implement cost saving processes and architecture across all platforms.
• Track costs across all platform services and infrastructure, generating cost reports and updates.
• Implement cost alerts and budget threshold monitoring tools.
• Build, and enable engineering teams to use, self-service tools that provide real-time insights into their application and service costs.
• Establish cost optimisation playbooks and best practices while working closely with key stakeholders, including internal Tech Leaders and third parties.
• Provide technical expertise for, and implementation of Platform Engineering roadmap items relating to the maintenance, development and automation of platforms.

Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven track record of implementing cost-saving initiatives that delivered measurable results across cloud infrastructure, inclusive of AWS.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost and Usage Reports, and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.
• Proven cost optimisation across developer tools, such as GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines.
• Experience with DataDog or similar SaaS based observability platforms to inform decision making.
• Strong background in Kubernetes, containerisation, and infrastructure automation.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify cost optimisation opportunities.
• Ability to translate technical infrastructure costs into business-friendly financial metrics and forecasts.
• Collaborative approach with the ability to influence without authority, driving cost-conscious behaviours across engineering teams.
• Strong self-management skills with the ability to take initiative in identifying cost optimisation opportunities.
• Ability to create clear documentation and materials for engineering teams.

Additional Information

At Angstrom, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.

Depending on your role and location, you can expect to receive benefits like:

• Generous bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
• Ability to buy and sell holiday
• Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
• Entain & Enhance days
• Sharesave Scheme
• A collaborative and creative team culture that encourages innovation.

Professional development opportunities and support for continuous learning.

Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.