- Location
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Cloud
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior 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.
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.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster administration, workload management, networking, security, and performance optimisation.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, with a strong understanding of managed cloud services.
- Hands-on experience with GitOps methodologies and related tooling.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience building and maintaining automated delivery pipelines.
- Experience working with container technologies and cloud-native architectures.
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and incident management practices.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
- Experience supporting software development teams in deploying and operating distributed applications.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience in iGaming, gambling or similar backgrounds/industries
Desirable
- Experience with Amazon EKS or other managed Kubernetes platforms.
- Familiarity with Flux, Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize.
- Experience supporting managed data and messaging platforms such as RDS, Kafka, or equivalent services.
- Knowledge of application runtimes and services built using Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar technologies.
- Experience implementing cloud security controls, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) practices and platform engineering frameworks.
What we’ll offer you:
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Our hiring process
We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.
It usually looks like this:
- Call with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Role specific capability interview
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
Inclusion at CreateFuture
We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
We look forward to your application!
