Platform Engineer III

Company Description

Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we're leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it's your game. So let's win together.



Job Description

As a Platform Engineer III  you will support the execution of a range of core infrastructure and security services in Entain's chosen cloud platforms to deliver highly available and scalable services, automating time intensive processes whilst and meeting security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.

Reporting to Senior Platform Engineering Manager you will work closely with teams across the group and ensure a continuous cycle of improvement and evolution, ensuring that our services consistently deliver expected outcomes and provide maximum value to the organisation

• Leads cloud system design activities and/or reviews system designs to assure that solutions will exhibit expected levels of performance, security, scalability, security, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Supports with the architecture and implementation of infrastructure-as-code, and policy-as-code objectives under supervision
• Manages automation initiatives of cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, self-service, infrastructure-as-code services, auto scale initiatives, and DevOps deployment.
• Maintains and operates platform components and tools according to DevOps model – monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health, troubleshooting and resolving issues promptly.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders and product owners to scope and de-risk development activities in advance.
• Identifies, analyses, and resolves infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues with minimal guidance.
• Troubleshoots customer environments and assists with complex escalations as a technical resource to the team.
• Builds platforms that can scales at enterprise level.
• Provides mentoring to Platform Engineering colleagues, assisting them in managing their deliveries through code review.
• Supports the implementation of ways to improve working processes within the area of cloud engineering responsibility through data analysis to identify issues and areas of improvements.
• Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in cloud engineering best practices and industry standards.
• Mentors other cloud engineers, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.

Essential Skills:

• Has been involved in cloud initiatives, contributed to Platform Engineering groups and helped deliver key infrastructure for core initiatives.
• Expert working knowledge and understanding of cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and the ability to implement, and optimise cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms, specifically Kubernetes and experience running large scale clusters at enterprise level.
• Experience with messaged based systems such as SNS, Apache Kafka and applications that require low latency.
• Can communicate clearly, present, evangelise, to those both technical and non-technical.
• Experience with AWS best practices, including the well architected framework.
• Experience with GitOps and using either ArgoCD or Flux to improve developer experience.
• Creation of Terraform/OpenTofu modules and enabling product engineering teams to autonomously deploy applications whilst maintaining high standards.
• Strong experience developing CI/CD pipelines in a secure and cost effective way.
• Strong experience with monitoring tools and providing the right level of observability and monitoring for product engineering teams.
• Demonstrate ability to be cost aware and experience on how to optimise cloud costs.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively as a team, providing mentoring to junior members of the team.
• Must be very comfortable working, communicating with, and regularly presenting to highly technical software engineers, cloud engineers, product/business leaders, as well as executive leadership. 
• A community builder and always working within the community to find bright spots and bring that knowledge back to the larger community. 
• Passionate about cloud, understanding problems and delivering solutions.
• Continuous learning, understanding how that applies to the business, and communicating such out to educate and enable the technical organisation, product groups, etc.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make informed and timely decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication.
• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
• Someone with extensive experience in technology at the enterprise, with familiarity with the betting and gaming industry a plus

Cloud Certifications: (Candidates with any below certifications. Not mandatory but nice to have.)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• CKA or CKAD Certification 

Additional Information

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.

Depending on your role and location, you can expect to receive benefits like

• Generous group bonus scheme 
• Hybrid working – 2 days in the office 
• Private medical insurance 
• Pension scheme – matched to 6% 
• Ability to buy and sell holiday. 
• Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind 
• Additional “It's Your Game” day off to use at either Christmas or New Year 
• Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development 
• Share save scheme 
• Paid subscription to LinkedIn Learning 

And outside of this, you'll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes, join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values and that's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.