Senior Platform Engineer in Manchester

About Us

Our mission is to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale and we need the very best Tech talent to help us achieve this. We recently migrated all of our customers onto our very own proprietary platform - so it's an exciting time to join us. With the help of our new platform, we're able to pioneer new products and drive more advanced, creative technologies. The result? Unrivalled experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Betfred's Technology department is driven by innovation, and you'll be at the heart of unlocking our new platform's potential. So, if you want to help shape the future of betting and gaming, then it's time to join us.

Job Purpose

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who is passionate about automation, infrastructure, and building resilient platforms that empower engineers to deliver software with confidence. You’ll thrive on solving complex problems, simplifying systems, and creating robust solutions that scale with the business. You strongly believe in DevOps culture and principles: collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. Working closely with engineering teams, you’ll help shape the tools, processes, and best practices that enable seamless delivery to production, strong observability, and rapid response when things don’t go to plan.

Job Duties

• As more of our workloads transition to Kubernetes, you’ll have real scope to influence how we evolve the platform, driving adoption of GitOps, modern deployment strategies, and cloud-native patterns that improve reliability, security, and developer experience.
• You’ll play a key role in designing and maintaining scalable, resilient infrastructure.
• Improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.
• Enabling teams through self-service tooling and clear platform standards.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce complexity and increase automation.
• Defining golden paths, ways of working and best practices.
• Leading key projects and delivering against goals.
• Working with the Application Development teams and the Digital Technology business to deliver solutions that meet their emerging requirements.
• Working with the Engineering Managers and Architects to develop a set of Standard Operational Procedures that can be rolled out across the business and to third parties who need to work in our cloud-based environments.
• Working with the Engineering teams to diagnose and support issues with infrastructure, pipelines or applications.
• Upgrading and maintaining our internal application tooling.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Background in Platform/OS engineering, both Linux and Windows experience is preferred.
• Experience using configuration management and infrastructure as code such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience with containers using both Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong AWS Platform Engineering skills in particular; EC2, S3, IAM and VPC/network configuration.
• Experience with VMWare is a bonus, especially vSphere, NSX, VCF.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, lean and deadline driven organisation.
• Able to work under pressure and to ask for support when required.
• Ability to quickly undertake evaluation of competing products to determine which best meets the company’s requirements.
• Enjoys keeping up to date with advances in technologies and how they can be applied to projects.
• Able to automate complex operational and technical processes using industry standard tools.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud environments and typical technology stacks employed in them.
• In-depth understanding of Cloud security issues and solutions.
• An excellent communicator, both verbal and written.
• Someone who is adaptable and able to pick up new techniques.

Desirable

• iGaming experience: Prior experience in the sports betting or gaming industry is a significant advantage.
• Observability Tools: Experience with monitoring and logging solutions such as Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, or Splunk.
• FinOps: Understanding of cost management and FinOps concepts within cloud environments.
• Platform as a Product: Experience or familiarity with treating the internal developer platform as a product, focusing on developer experience and feedback loops.
• Certifications: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

What is in it for me?

We offer a variety of competitive benefits, some of which vary depending on the role you’re recruited to. Some of what you can expect in this role includes:

• A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution (£60,000 - £80,000).
• Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions.
• An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service.
• Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family.
• Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay.
• Long Service Recognition.
• Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream.