Cloud Engineer - iGaming

xdesign; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and remote options

Global office hubs (Edinburgh, Leeds, 

Manchester, London, Bulgaria

Job summary

xdesign is seeking senior/lead Platform Engineers to design, build, and run cloud-native platforms for a fast‑paced online betting and gaming environment. You will own Kubernetes‑based platforms, drive GitOps, and partner with product teams on deployment, observability, and platform adoption.

For the lead track, you will own the platform roadmap, mentor engineers, and translate business priorities into clear delivery plans while remaining hands-on in a cloud-first stack.

Qualifications

• Significant production Kubernetes experience including cluster admin, networking, security, and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of a major hyperscaler (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud) with managed services.
• Hands-on GitOps with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• DevOps or platform engineering background with on-call experience.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Experience in betting and gaming industry.
• Lead applicants: mentoring engineers and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, reliability, scalability, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms on an EKS estate.
• Manage and evolve Kubernetes clusters through deployments, configuration, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
• Champion GitOps practices for auditable changes.
• Build infrastructure-as-code supporting secure cloud environments across capacity, performance, cost, and lifecycle.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to speed delivery and reduce manual work.
• Collaborate with product engineering on deployment, observability, and platform adoption; respond to incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Lead track: own the platform roadmap, prioritise work with stakeholders, mentor engineers, translate business priorities into delivery plans.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

GitOps practices

CI/CD automation

Platform engineering

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Amazon EKS

Kafka

Job description

Role overview

This opportunity invites senior and lead-level engineers to join a platform engineering function within the online betting and gaming sector. The position centres on designing, building, running, and continually improving cloud-native platforms that allow product engineering teams to ship dependable, scalable, and secure software. The lead variant adds people leadership, stakeholder engagement, and roadmap ownership on top of the same hands‑on technical remit.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the operational health, reliability, scalability, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads, including an Amazon EKS estate.
• Manage and evolve Kubernetes clusters through workload deployment, configuration management, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
• Champion and maintain GitOps practices so that infrastructure and application changes are consistent, automated, and auditable.
• Build and refine infrastructure-as-code that supports repeatable, secure cloud environments across capacity, performance, cost, and lifecycle concerns.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to speed up delivery, raise deployment reliability, and reduce manual overhead.
• Partner with product engineering teams on application deployment, troubleshooting, observability, and platform adoption, plus respond to incidents and run root cause analysis.
• For the lead track: own the platform roadmap, prioritise work with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and translate business priorities into clear delivery plans.

Requirements

• Significant production experience operating Kubernetes, covering cluster administration, networking, security, workload management, and performance tuning.
• Strong working knowledge of a major hyperscaler such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including managed services.
• Hands‑on experience with GitOps methodologies and the tooling that supports them, alongside infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Background in DevOps or platform engineering practices, with an operational mindset and willingness to participate in on‑call rotations.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Direct experience in the betting and gaming industry.
• For lead applicants: a track record mentoring engineers, managing stakeholders, and communicating with both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with managed Kubernetes offerings such as Amazon EKS, and tools like Flux, Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Exposure to managed data and messaging platforms such as RDS or Kafka.
• Knowledge of application runtimes built with Java, Kotlin, Python, or comparable languages.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with site reliability engineering practices and platform engineering frameworks.

Benefits and work setup

• Hybrid and remote working options, with office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London, and Bulgaria, plus occasional travel to client sites.
• Flexible approach that emphasises impact over activity, with autonomy over how time is managed.
• A structured hiring process that typically includes an initial recruitment call followed by a role‑specific capability interview, with possible additional technical task or values‑based conversation.
• Reasonable adjustments available for candidates who need support during the application process.