Senior Platform Engineer — Pipelines & DX (Remote UK)

Fanatics Inc.; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office setup stipend

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Senior Engineer, Platform to advance CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling for scalable software delivery in the UK. You’ll build secure, scalable pipelines, promote best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes, with on-call rotation, remote work options in the United Kingdom, and occasional travel for collaboration and offsite sessions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Application development experience (backend or frontend).
• Cloud-native environments (Azure preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Kubernetes or Service Fabric).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, CloudFormation).
• Proven ability to implement and maintain CI/CD release pipelines.
• Experience with scripting and programming (.NET preferred; Go, Python, PowerShell beneficial).
• Knowledge of observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with collaboration across engineering teams.
• Effective communication skills, cross-team collaboration.
• Positive, flexible attitude in dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reusable CI/CD templates and workflows in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions (YAML-first, DRY, versioned).
• Embed secure-by-default and Zero Trust practices in pipelines (secretless with OIDC, least privilege, policy-as-code, scanning).
• Improve developer experience: faster feedback loops, quality gates, ephemeral/preview environments, and great documentation.
• Instrument pipeline observability (Datadog or equivalent) and define SLOs to drive reliability.
• Automate IaC workflows (Terraform/Terragrunt) and integrate testing, artifact/versioning, and release orchestration.
• Partner with teams to onboard to golden paths; provide enablement, examples, and reference implementations.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents.
• Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

.NET / C#

Go / Python / PowerShell

Observability

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Kubernetes

Service Fabric

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Senior Engineer, Platform to advance CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling for scalable software delivery in the UK. You’ll build secure, scalable pipelines, promote best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes, with on-call rotation, remote work options in the United Kingdom, and occasional travel for collaboration and offsite sessions.