Senior Platform Engineer - Flutter Functions (20 months), Hybrid & Remote

Senior Platform Engineer - Flutter Functions

Flutter Technology, part of Flutter Entertainment, are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in the design, implementation, automation, and operation of our evolving data streaming platforms. These platforms underpin the global services powering Flutter's well-known betting brands, enabling faster delivery, improved reliability, and an enhanced developer experience across the group.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the technology direction for Flutter's data streaming platform. You'll collaborate with brands across the group to modernise and migrate their services, helping to deliver cutting-edge platform capabilities that meet diverse business needs. You'll also contribute to the evaluation and selection of data streaming technologies, platform tooling (IaC, CI/CD, observability), and supporting components aligned with our strategic objectives.

We're looking for an engineer who can translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable platform features. You'll drive platform adoption by promoting best practices, reducing delivery risk, and ensuring tangible business value. You'll be part of a dynamic, cross-functional, global team, working closely with our internal engineering and partner teams.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in enterprise environments, ideally within platform engineering teams. You bring a customer-obsessed and collaborative mindset, supported by a strong technical grasp of data streaming technologies, automation, and platform engineering. You can clearly articulate complex technical solutions, connect platform capabilities to business value, and demonstrate a strong passion for modern technologies and developer enablement.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate core components of our secure, performant, and cost-effective data steaming platforms.
• Develop and maintain platform capabilities and interfaces to enhance developer experience and self-service.
• Drive automation across the platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC – e.g., Helm, Crossplane, Terraform) and configuration management tooling.
• Implement and manage robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions) promoting GitOps practices for managing the platform.
• Manage and enhance our data streaming platforms
• Maintain source code and artifact repositories.
• Write and review platform code, offering constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
• Enable and support engineering teams with the adoption of data streaming services.
• Write and maintain appropriate technical documentation.
• Define, document, support, and approve Low-Level-Designs (LLDs) for Flutter data-streaming services.
• Support architecture and function-leads with an evolving technology roadmap and strategy.
• Act as a trusted SME offering advice and knowledge sharing to the broader technology team and internal customers.
• Create and drive adoption of standard operating procedures, policies, and runbooks.
• Liaise with other group functions, building and maintaining relationships, and recognising opportunities for strategic collaboration.
• Liaise with Third Party vendors and partners.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• On-call is likely to be introduced in the future.

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:

• Proven experience building and operating data streaming platforms, with focus on our core technologies: Apache Kafka, Cassandra & Apache Pulsar.
• Proven experience building and operating data streaming platforms on AWS, with focus on Kafka, Keyspaces, EMR, Athena, Glue, Quicksight, S3
• An understanding of and hands-on experience with Kubernetes (concepts, architecture, operations).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Helm, Crossplane, Terraform).
• Experience implementing and managing GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD principles and tooling (e.g., Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Strong scripting/programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation and platform development.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (GitHub).
• Solid experience working with Linux operating systems.
• Good understanding of platform security principles and experience delivering systems in security-compliant environments.
• Experience managing deployment assets such as container images and Helm charts.
• Experience with incident, change, problem, and risk management processes.
• Collaborative: Proven ability to work effectively and build strong relationships with stakeholders in cross-functional, global teams. Excellent communication skills.
• Objective & Analytical: Impartial approach, ensuring decisions are based on objective criteria and data. Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Adaptable & Strategic: Ability to understand diverse perspectives, adapt approaches, and contribute to the strategic direction of the platform.
• Proactive Communicator: Actively listens, provides constructive feedback, and helps others consider new perspectives. Passion for sharing knowledge.
• Experience in agile working environments.
• Broader software engineering background (coding, testing, systems design).
• Future Ready: Demonstrating curiosity and openness toward AI and emerging technologies, with a willingness to continuously learn, adapt, share knowledge and collaborate with AI tools in your day to day activity.