The Role
Britbet operates pool betting at 59 British racecourses and 11 greyhound tracks, running on a production AWS estate that directly supports live betting: racing 362 days a year. We're bringing the management of that estate in-house from a managed service provider — and this role is the centre of that move.
You'll be our AWS platform lead: the person who owns the day-to-day running of a business-critical production environment end-to-end. You'll join a small, capable team (network/infrastructure engineer, service desk, a hands-on Head of IT) with a further senior hire planned for 2027, and you'll help shape the runbooks, automation and tooling of the new operating model.
What you'll own
- Own platform operations across our AWS accounts: patching via SSM, backup configuration and verification, IAM, security remediation (Security Hub/GuardDuty), and CloudWatch monitoring.
- Run our RDS (MariaDB) estate: parameter and version management, backup/restore, and the instance scaling cycle around major race meetings (Cheltenham, the Grand National).
- Take ownership of our Terraform codebase and configuration management as we repatriate it from the outgoing provider, plus extend automation where it saves us time.
- Drive cost optimisation as an active workstream: rightsizing, reserved instance/savings plan strategy, anomaly investigation.
- Share out-of-hours cover on a paid rota with a first-response tier and runbooks filtering the noise before it reaches you.
- Work alongside our network engineer on a major 2027 project: standing up a second data-centre hub with certificate-based VPN from 60+ venues and a new Direct Connect into AWS, then decommissioning the 66 AWS site-to-site VPNs.
What you'll bring
Must have
- Relevant years running production AWS estates (operations, not just project builds).
- Solid EC2/Linux administration and patching workflows (SSM or equivalent).
- Real relational database operations experience — RDS preferred (we run MariaDB, but strong MySQL/PostgreSQL ops translates).
- CloudWatch beyond the basics: alarms, log groups, agent configuration.
- Confident IAM: roles, policies, least-privilege thinking.
- Terraform at 'maintain and extend an existing codebase' level.
- Comfortable committing to a paid on-call rota.
Nice to have
- MSP background.
- Site-to-site VPN / networking exposure.
- Scripting (Python or Bash) for automation.
- AI Experience for tooling and automation.
- AWS SysOps Administrator or DevOps Engineer certification (we'll fund it if not).
- Experience in a regulated industry.
- Service Desk - Confluence, Jira
- A Driver/Willingness to travel
What we offer
- £50,000 per annum
- 10% discretionary bonus scheme
- Separately paid on-call allowance
- Pension and private health insurance
- Certification funding and study time (AWS certs actively supported)
- 25 days holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working with a genuine reason to be on-site: race days are the most interesting days
- A clear development path
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AWS Cloud Operations Engineer in Liverpool employer: Britbet
At Britbet, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work environment that values flexibility and employee well-being. As a Field Service Engineer, you'll enjoy competitive benefits including a company vehicle and private medical cover, while working in the vibrant atmosphere of racecourses across the Home Counties. We are committed to your professional growth, providing opportunities for skill development and career advancement in a supportive team culture.
