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As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.\nWe are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritise flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.\nRecognising that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.\nThe Role\nAs a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure and internal tooling that powers our engineering teams. You’ll focus on delivering secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery while improving operational efficiency and resilience.\nIn this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with engineers and cross-functional teams to evolve our core platform - contributing to areas such as deployment workflows, observability, data services, and networking. You will be a strong individual contributor who also mentors others and champions best practices across the team. Your work will enable autonomy, consistency, and security across the engineering organization.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nContribute on the design design and implementing platform features that improve scalability, security, and reliability across our systems. \nBuilding reusable, self-service components that abstract complexity and improve developer productivity. \nWriting high-quality, maintainable code and applying infrastructure-as-code principles for repeatable, auditable changes. \nPartnering with product, security, and operations teams to align on requirements and ensure solutions meet evolving business and technical needs. \nSupporting incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews and platform reliability improvements. \nDriving adoption of best practices in automation, observability, and secure-by-default infrastructure design. \nMentoring junior engineers and contributing to a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence. \nWhat You’ll Bring\nSignificant hands-on experience in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or DevOps roles. \nProficiency with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, IaC (e.g.Terraform) and configuration management (e.g.Ansible). \nBackground in system design, distributed systems, and software engineering principles. \nExperience building internal platform capabilities such as deployment systems, monitoring/observability tooling, or infrastructure automation. \nSolid understanding of CI/CD principles, pipeline design, and operational best practices. \nStrong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complexity and make sound technical decisions. \nExcellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and disciplines. \nA mindset of ownership and continuous improvement, with a passion for creating scalable and developer-friendly systems. \nA Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack\nAWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog and PagerDuty\nThis is what you should have. 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