Description
About Betfair Romania Development:
Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.
Our Values:
The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.
Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact
About UKI
Flutter UK & Ireland are the UKI region of Flutter Entertainment. They unite a dozen brands, including powerhouses Paddy Power, Betfair, Tombola and Sky Betting & Gaming, bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues, who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Demonstrates outstanding knowledge of Infrastructure & Platforms systems: Applies comprehensive understanding of group engineering systems management as key responsibility involves designing, implementing, and maintaining the Flutter UKI platform infrastructure. This includes both the development of new platforms and the enhancement of existing ones to meet evolving business needs.
- Driving Improvements: Proactively drive and contribute to opportunities to improve processes, adopt new technologies, and enhance the reliability, performance, and security of the platform, as well as drive the cloud cost management plans.
- Automation Contributor: Demonstrate a proactive approach in identifying potential areas for automation, collaborates with management to priorities these opportunities, and spearheads the implementation of automated solutions, adhering to an "Automation First" principle. You are driving the self-service principle across the business.
- Ownership : Exhibit ownership of squad deliverables and KPIs/SLAs, demonstrating a sense of responsibility and accountability. Lead and take charge of a work stream or incident.
- Mentorship: Act as a mentor to other members in the squad, actively sharing knowledge and teaching skills.
- Role Modelling: Serve as a role model both behaviorally and in terms of capabilities, inspiring Associate/Graduate Engineers through their actions.
- Squad Technical Direction and innovation: Demonstrates proactiveness by taking responsibility of guiding the technical direction of the squad, providing clarity and vision
- Tribe Awareness and Contribution: Demonstrates a proactive awareness, understanding and actively contributes to the broader infrastructure and platforms strategy, roadmap and resolving challenges.
- Engineering Practices Consultation: Actively participate in the review and enhancement of engineering practices and operational methods within squads, actively contributing to the ongoing process of continuous improvement.
- Strategic Roadmap Definition: Demonstrates ownership of the strategic roadmap, outlining key technological directions for the team or project. Promotes efforts on project-based work, including in-squad operational initiatives.
- Stakeholder Management: Exhibit comfort in engaging with non-technical stakeholders, showcasing effective communication and high-level engagement.
- Collaboration: Demonstrating effective collaboration through active communication, building relationships and influencing. Acting as a consultant for other teams, providing expertise on complex technical decisions whilst respectfully challenging decisions and direction from Leadership
Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) level knowledge of Platform Engineering Principals
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) level knowledge of using the supported products in a production environment
1. CDK
2. Kubernetes/Docker
3. Networking
4. AWS
5. Git
6. Jenkins (or similar CI system)
7. Configuration Management (Chef, Ansible)
8. General Linux operations.
9. Infrastructure Specific Products (Virtualization, Storage technologies, Hardware appliances)
- Proven track record for evaluating and embracing new technologies and tooling.
- Vast experience with managing high-load, high-performance, high-availability applications.
- Strong AWS experience supporting cloud native infrastructure through tooling and automation.
- Able to drive the ways of working and structure of the squad
- Developing engineers both behaviorally and in terms of capability
- Delegating tasks and serve as a reliable deputy when required
- Identify and fill skills gaps.
Disclaimer:
We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we’re part of. You don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements will be contacted for an interview.
By submitting your application online, you agree that your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, to consider you for prospective roles within the company.
