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With a passion for gaming and a commitment to pushing boundaries, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences to players worldwide.\nWe are looking to hire a Lead Platform Engineer to lead the design, development and maintenance of the underlying platform that supports the company's products and services, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance. The role manages the platform engineering team and drives the technical decisions behind it.\nLocation: hybrid in London or Warsaw.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nDesign the platform architecture. Build a robust, scalable, fault-tolerant architecture using modern cloud-native technologies, microservices, containers and the rest.\n\nLead the team. Lead, mentor and manage a team of platform engineers, fostering technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement aligned with business objectives.\n\nAutomate the infrastructure. Manage and automate cloud provisioning with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker, keeping environments consistent, reproducible and cost-effective.\n\nBuild security in. Embed security best practice into the platform's design and processes.\n\nOwn the technical roadmap. Define and own how the platform evolves to meet future business and regulatory needs.\n\nRaise developer productivity. Provide self-service tools, automated CI/CD pipelines and standardised workflows that minimise developers' cognitive load so they can focus on features.\n\nOwn observability. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting so uptime and performance hold,\nand give development teams the data to troubleshoot fast.\n\nMeet regulatory standards. 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