Staff Platform Engineer – Cloud Infra & Kubernetes

Academic Key; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming in the UK is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team, with UK or Ireland base. You will own cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling across regions.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, scalability, cost efficiency, and mentoring engineers; you’ll work autonomously on cross-team initiatives and drive IaC with Terraform on AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python and Java.
• Familiarity with Kotlin, Go a plus.
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge.
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform).
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience.
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems.
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively across regions.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and delivery of core platform capabilities spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, Observability, CI/CD systems, and developer tooling.
• Architect, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS with a focus on reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity.
• Continue to drive Infrastructure as Code and automation practices across teams.
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs.
• Participate in and/or lead complex, cross-team initiatives and provide technical clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Python

Java

CI/CD

GitOps

Kubernetes

Observability

AWS

Cloud-native

Go

Kotlin

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming in the UK is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team, with UK or Ireland base. You will own cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling across regions.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, scalability, cost efficiency, and mentoring engineers; you’ll work autonomously on cross-team initiatives and drive IaC with Terraform on AWS.