Lead Platform Engineer — Cloud & Kubernetes | Remote

xdesign; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Remote

Office hubs

Flexible schedule

Supportive hiring process

Accessibility adjustments

Job summary

xdesign is seeking senior and lead level platform engineers to join a cloud-native platform team supporting online betting and gaming. You will design, run, and improve scalable, secure infrastructure enabling product teams to ship reliably.

Responsibilities include owning Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps practices, IaC, and CI/CD. The lead track adds roadmap ownership, mentoring, and stakeholder coordination for delivery success.

Qualifications

• Significant production experience operating Kubernetes including cluster admin, networking, and performance tuning.
• Strong working knowledge of major hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and managed services.
• Hands-on GitOps, IaC, and CI/CD tooling with an operations mindset.
• Background in DevOps or platform engineering with on-call readiness.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Direct experience in betting and gaming is a plus.
• Lead applicants: mentoring, stakeholder management, and clear technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, reliability, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads.
• Evolve clusters through deployment, config, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
• Champion GitOps to ensure automated, auditable changes.
• Build infrastructure-as-code for secure, scalable cloud environments.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to speed delivery and reduce drift.
• Partner with product engineering on deployment, observability, and incident response.
• Lead track: own platform roadmap, mentor engineers, and align delivery with business priorities.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps / Platform engineering

On-call readiness

Stakeholder collaboration

Betting & gaming domain

Tools

Flux

Argo CD

Helm

Kustomize

RDS

Kafka

Job description

xdesign is seeking senior and lead level platform engineers to join a cloud-native platform team supporting online betting and gaming. You will design, run, and improve scalable, secure infrastructure enabling product teams to ship reliably.

Responsibilities include owning Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps practices, IaC, and CI/CD. The lead track adds roadmap ownership, mentoring, and stakeholder coordination for delivery success.