Cloud Engineer (Platform Engineer)

Location – Leeds or Dublin

Hybrid - 2 days per week

Flutter Technology seeks a skilled cloud engineer to play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, automating, and operating their evolving AWS-based Internal Developer Platform (IDP), which is foundational to their global betting brands. This role involves shaping technology choices, collaborating on service migration and modernisation, and delivering innovative capabilities to enhance delivery speed, reliability, and developer experience. The ideal candidate will possess enterprise experience in platform engineering or cloud transformation, a strong technical understanding of cloud-native technologies and automation, a customer-focused and collaborative mentality, and a passion for improving developer workflows, with an initial focus on the platform API strategy.

About Division/Function

Flutter consists of two commercial divisions (Fanduel and International) and our central Flutter Functions; COO, Finance & Legal. Here in Flutter Functions we work with colleagues across all our divisions and regions to deliver something we call the Flutter Edge. It’s what differentiates us, our ‘secret sauce’ which plays a key part in our ongoing success and powers our brands and divisions, through Product, Tech, Expertise and Scale.

In Flutter COO we work with experts across Flutter to build, deploy and communicate the Flutter Edge. Together we cover Product & Payments, Technology, Sportsbook Product & Trading, People, Property, Corporate Communications and Strategic Partnerships & Transformation.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain platform capabilities and interfaces, potentially contributing to our IDP API strategy, to enhance developer experience and self-service.
• Drive automation across the platform using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling.
• Implement and manage robust CI/CD pipelines promoting GitOps practices for managing the platform and enabling developer workflows.
• Manage and enhance our Kubernetes platform.
• Maintain source code and artifact repositories.
• Write and review platform code, offering constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
• Enable and support engineering teams with the adoption of cloud services.
• Write and maintain appropriate technical documentation.
• Define, document, support, and approve Low-Level-Designs for Flutter cloud services.
• Act as a trusted SME offering advice and knowledge sharing to the broader technology team and internal customers.
• Create and drive adoption of standard operating procedures, policies, and runbooks.
• Facilitate the development and communication of Flutter Group standards for design, development, and deployment.
• Liaise with other group functions, building and maintaining relationships, and recognising opportunities for strategic collaboration.
• Liaise with Third Party vendors and partners.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• On-call is likely to be introduced in the future.

How You’ll Do It

• Proven experience building and operating cloud platforms, within highly available AWS environments.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes (concepts, architecture, operations).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Crossplane, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation).
• Experience implementing and managing GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD principles and tooling (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Strong scripting/programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation and platform development.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (GitHub).
• Solid experience working with Linux operating systems.
• Good understanding of cloud security principles and experience delivering systems in security-compliant environments.
• Experience managing deployment assets such as container images and Helm charts.
• Experience with incident, change, problem, and risk management processes.
• Proven ability to work effectively and build strong relationships with stakeholders in cross-functional, global teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Impartial approach, ensuring decisions are based on objective criteria and data.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to understand diverse perspectives, adapt approaches, and contribute to the strategic direction of the platform.
• Actively listens, provides constructive feedback, and helps others consider new perspectives.
• Passion for sharing knowledge.

What’s In It For You

We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Hybrid working
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
• Recognition programs
• Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world. We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet. With our global scale and challenger mentality, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.