Staff Platform Engineer, Infrastructure - Core UK & Ireland

The role

You will lead technical initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling. You will architect and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.

What you will do

• Drive technical design and delivery of core platform capabilities
• Architect, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS
• Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling
• Drive Infrastructure as Code and automation practices
• Partner with application teams to align platform capabilities with developer needs
• Lead complex, cross-team initiatives
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response
• Mentor engineers
• Participate in on-call rotations

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering
• Proficiency with Python and Java
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform)
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively across regions

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kotlin, Go
• Experience with internal developer platforms or portals
• FinOps or cloud cost management experience
• Regulated or high-availability environment experience
• Backend development experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools

Before you apply

• Do not offer sponsorship
• You need to be living in the UK or Ireland to apply

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics.