Cloud Engineer - iGaming

This is not a live vacancy. We are building a talent pipeline ahead of anticipated demand and are keen to connect with strong Senior and Lead Cloud Platform Engineers for future opportunities. Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, building, operating, and continuously improving cloud-native platforms that enable development teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure applications. The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices with a strong operational mindset. They will be responsible for maintaining the health and evolution of containerised workloads, enhancing developer experience, and driving improvements across infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform services. At the Lead level, this role also combines that hands-on expertise with team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery planning. The right candidate can operate credibly at an engineering level while also communicating clearly with business and technical stakeholders, translating platform priorities into a coherent roadmap and ensuring the team has the clarity and support needed to deliver effectively. This role requires a proactive engineer who can work independently, collaborate effectively across teams, and contribute to the ongoing maturity of modern cloud platforms. Key Responsibilities Own and support the operational health, reliability, scalability, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads Manage and evolve Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration management, cluster operations, and platform upgrades Drive and maintain GitOps practices to ensure consistent, automated, and auditable infrastructure and application deployments Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure-as-code solutions to support scalable, repeatable, and secure cloud environments Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery, improve deployment reliability, and reduce operational overhead Manage and optimise cloud-native and managed platform services, including capacity planning, performance tuning, cost optimisation, patching, and lifecycle management Partner with software engineering teams to support application deployment, troubleshooting, observability, and platform adoption Monitor platform health and respond to incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements Identify technical debt and contribute to platform roadmaps focused on operational excellence, security, automation, and developer productivity Champion best practices in cloud architecture, security, reliability, automation, and platform engineering Participate in on-call support and incident management activities as required, including for the EKS platform Additional Key…