As a Platform Engineer III  you will support the execution of a range of core infrastructure and security services in Entain’s chosen cloud platforms to deliver highly available and scalable services, automating time intensive processes whilst and meeting security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.

Reporting to Senior Platform Engineering Manager you will work closely with teams across the group and ensure a continuous cycle of improvement and evolution, ensuring that our services consistently deliver expected outcomes and provide maximum value to the organisation

• Leads cloud system design activities and/or reviews system designs to assure that solutions will exhibit expected levels of performance, security, scalability, security, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Supports with the architecture and implementation of infrastructure-as-code, and policy-as-code objectives under supervision
• Manages automation initiatives of cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, self-service, infrastructure-as-code services, auto scale initiatives, and DevOps deployment.
• Maintains and operates platform components and tools according to DevOps model – monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health, troubleshooting and resolving issues promptly.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders and product owners to scope and de-risk development activities in advance.
• Identifies, analyses, and resolves infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues with minimal guidance.
• Troubleshoots customer environments and assists with complex escalations as a technical resource to the team.
• Builds platforms that can scales at enterprise level.
• Provides mentoring to Platform Engineering colleagues, assisting them in managing their deliveries through code review.
• Supports the implementation of ways to improve working processes within the area of cloud engineering responsibility through data analysis to identify issues and areas of improvements.
• Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in cloud engineering best practices and industry standards.
• Mentors other cloud engineers, helping to improve the team’s abilities by acting as a technical resource.

Essential Skills:

• Has been involved in cloud initiatives, contributed to Platform Engineering groups and helped deliver key infrastructure for core initiatives.
• Expert working knowledge and understanding of cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and the ability to implement, and optimise cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms, specifically Kubernetes and experience running large scale clusters at enterprise level.
• Experience with messaged based systems such as SNS, Apache Kafka and applications that require low latency.
• Can communicate clearly, present, evangelise, to those both technical and non-technical.
• Experience with AWS best practices, including the well architected framework.
• Experience with GitOps and using either ArgoCD or Flux to improve developer experience.
• Creation of Terraform/OpenTofu modules and enabling product engineering teams to autonomously deploy applications whilst maintaining high standards.
• Strong experience developing CI/CD pipelines in a secure and cost effective way.
• Strong experience with monitoring tools and providing the right level of observability and monitoring for product engineering teams.
• Demonstrate ability to be cost aware and experience on how to optimise cloud costs.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively as a team, providing mentoring to junior members of the team.
• Must be very comfortable working, communicating with, and regularly presenting to highly technical software engineers, cloud engineers, product/business leaders, as well as executive leadership. 
• A community builder and always working within the community to find bright spots and bring that knowledge back to the larger community. 
• Passionate about cloud, understanding problems and delivering solutions.
• Continuous learning, understanding how that applies to the business, and communicating such out to educate and enable the technical organisation, product groups, etc.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make informed and timely decisions.