Platform Engineer

Amelco Limited — United Kingdom · Posted ~1 day ago

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About Us We are a leading gaming and gambling solution software provider building cutting-edge platforms across sportsbooks, lottery, casino, and financial trading. We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join our platform team as we evolve our operations and build more sophisticated platform capabilities. The Role You’ll join our platform team during an exciting growth phase. You’ll maintain our production infrastructure while building the next generation of platform services. This role balances operational excellence with platform development—helping us scale from manual operations to developer self-service over time. You’ll work across our full technology stack, from AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters to deployment pipelines and platform services for our development teams. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure & Production Operations Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS EKS clusters across development, staging, and production environmentsEnsure high availability and performance of core platform services and databasesHandle infrastructure requests and support development teams with platform needsParticipate in production incident response and resolution Platform Development & Automation Build platform services that enable development team self-service for common operationsCreate automation scripts and tooling to improve operational efficiencyImplement and improve GitOps workflows using Flux for infrastructure managementDevelop Terraform modules and AWS infrastructure as code patternsDesign and build observability dashboards and alerting systems Platform Evolution & Team Collaboration Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements and design effective platform solutionsDocument operational processes and create platform runbooksEstablish platform standards and best practices for service deploymentContribute to evolving our platform capabilities and operational maturity Required Skills & Experience Technical Experience 3+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps rolesProduction experience managing Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS preferred)Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC)Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, logging systems)Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) for automation and tool developmentUnderstanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation Critical Skills & Mindset Experience balancing production operations with strategic platform developmentAbility to work effectively in scaling environments while driving continuous improvementExcellent communication skills for collaborating with development teamsProblem-solving mindset focused on building sustainable platform solutionsWillingness to tackle both operational responsibilities and long-term platform building Nice-to-Have Qualifications Experience with GitOps implementations (FluxCD, ArgoCD)Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD) or AWS certificationsKnowledge of gaming/betting platform architecture and requirementsExperience with service mesh implementations (Istio, Linkerd)Background in platform engineering or internal developer platform initiatives What You’ll Work With Infrastructure: AWS EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, FluxCD GitOpsObservability: Grafana with Prometheus, Loki, TempoDeployment: Docker containers, Helm charts, automated release pipelinesPlatform Services: ExternalSecrets, ALB ingress controllers, service meshDevelopment Environment: Java Spring Boot and React applications requiring production stability Why This Role Is Valuable This position offers a powerful combination of operational responsibility and platform innovation. You’ll: Ensure the reliability of live betting operations while building improved platform capabilitiesWork at the intersection of infrastructure operations and developer productivityHave measurable impact on platform reliability and team efficiencyHelp shape the evolution of our platform engineering practices Amelco Benefits Pension Scheme: Amelco matches up to 7% contributions of your base salary for all staff. You will automatically be entered at 4%.Staff Benefits Scheme: access to the staff benefits portal after successful completion of a 4-month probation period.Yearly discretionary bonus scheme and pay reviewsOpportunity to travel and visit our office in Poland and Hungary If you are interested, hit the apply button, and please ensure you upload a copy of your CV. We look forward to hearing from you!