Platform Engineer

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

You will be responsible for the infrastructure build, automation and deployment to deliver a production ready environment that can scale to meet ongoing growth. Key to this role is experience of automation, scalability, clustering technologies, network architecture, monitoring, management and security in either AWS, GCP, Azure and / or VMWare. Any additional experience in scalability, network architecture, monitoring, lifecycle management and security are a bonus. At Betfred we support a large customer base, so an appetite for learning about a wide range of exciting and diverse technologies is important. We use Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, git, Ansible, AWS cloud technologies such as Lambdas, EC2, EKS and CloudFront. We deliver and support common, modern applications in our environments such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, MariaDB / MySQL, Redis as well as many others.

Job Duties

• Develop standard application stacks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to address common use cases.
• Build on the prototype application stacks to deliver a production ready environment that can be scaled to meet future requirements.
• Work with Kubernetes, Docker and standard virtual machine infrastructure to allow automated deployment, upgrade and operation of application stacks that can be reused across multiple projects.
• Design and implement solutions that can be reused across multiple projects.
• Work with Security and Compliance to ensure application stacks are hardened against malicious attacks.
• Work with the Application Development teams and the Digital Technology business to deliver solutions that meet their emerging requirements.
• Work 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.
• Work with the Engineering teams to diagnose and support issues with infrastructure, pipelines or applications.
• Upgrade and maintain our internal application tooling.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

What is in it for me?

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