Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) – Remote/Hybrid

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

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.