Staff Platform Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Fanaticsfbg; Leeds, Greater London; On-site; GBP 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming in the UK/Ireland is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS, focusing on reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and developer tooling while mentoring engineers and collaborating across regions to raise product velocity and quality. This role requires strong communication and leadership in a distributed, high-availability

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Drive technical design and delivery of core platform capabilities across cloud infra and developer tooling.
• Architect, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS with reliability and scalability.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling to improve velocity.
• Promote IaC and automation across teams.
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities.
• Participate in cross-team initiatives and provide technical clarity.
• Improve observability and incident response; mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Python

Java

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Distributed systems

Cloud experience

Influence without authority

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming in the UK/Ireland is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS, focusing on reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and developer tooling while mentoring engineers and collaborating across regions to raise product velocity and quality. This role requires strong communication and leadership in a distributed, high-availability