Staff Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & GitOps Lead

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; Dublin, Galway; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team across the UK and Ireland. You will shape cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, observability, and developer tooling to power the Fanatics software ecosystem.

You will architect and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS, drive CI/CD and GitOps, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency across regions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps or software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python and Java; Kotlin/Go a plus.
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge.
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) experience.
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience.
• Experience operating distributed, highly available systems.
• Ability to influence and communicate across regions.

Responsibilities

• Help drive design and delivery of core platform capabilities (cloud infra, Kubernetes, Observability, CI/CD, tooling).
• Architect, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS focusing on reliability and cost efficiency.
• Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Build and maintain internal platform services to improve developer experience.
• Drive IaC and automation across teams; unblock delivery with platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Platform engineering

Python

Java

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

AWS

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team across the UK and Ireland. You will shape cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, observability, and developer tooling to power the Fanatics software ecosystem.

You will architect and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS, drive CI/CD and GitOps, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency across regions.