Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

About Flutter Functions:

The Flutter Functions division is a key component of Flutter Entertainment, responsible for providing essential support and services across the organization. The division encompasses various corporate functions, including finance, legal, human resources, technology, and more, ensuring seamless operations and strategic alignment throughout the company.

Overview of the Role:

Flutter Technology are recruiting a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive the implementation, automation, and operation of our AWS cloud platform. The platform will underpin the global services consumed by the group’s well-known betting brands.

In this senior capacity, you won't just engineer but will play a pivotal role in crafting the technological trajectory for Flutter’s cloud infrastructure, working with all brands across the group to migrate and modernise their services, deliver technology to meet their needs, and promote knowledge-sharing across the engineering community. The role will contribute to the evaluation and selection of AWS services, code and configuration-management tooling and the variety of components required to achieve our group strategic objectives.

You must be effective at articulating technology requirements, promoting cloud enablement, migrations and the methodologies required to reduce risk and achieve desired outcomes. You should be comfortable working with cross-functional global teams in dynamic organisations, as the role will have interdependencies with teams in AWS, our partners, and our own engineering teams across various functions in various brands.

The right candidate will have experience working with enterprise organisations on large-scale migration/modernisation transformation projects. This will have involved a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, coupled with a strong technical understanding to provide confidence and answer questions, an ability to engage and help crystallise business benefits of migrations, demonstrate an excellent technical understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for cloud technologies.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a secure, performant, and cost-effective AWS Cloud Platform.

• Optimise reliability monitoring & alerting.

• Be an active part of performance and capacity testing.

• Spearhead the transformation of system deployment and operations using Infrastructure as Code methodologies and leveraging top-tier configuration management tools.

• Assume guardianship of source code and artifact repositories, ensuring they adhere to best practices.

• Drive the technical review process, providing strategic insights and guidance to elevate code quality.

• Enable and support engineering teams with the adoption of cloud services.

• Triage incidents, problems, and risks impacting Flutter cloud services.

• Author and oversee a library of technical documentation.

• Define, curate, and champion Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for our cloud services.

• Support cloud architecture and function-leads with an evolving cloud technology roadmap and strategy.

• Act as a trusted SME offering advice and knowledge sharing to the broader technology team and internal customers.

• Forge, evangelise, and ensure adherence to best-in-class operating procedures, policies, and operational manuals, setting a gold standard for operational precision.

• Cultivate and nurture relationships with other pivotal Flutter group functions, consistently identifying and seizing opportunities for strategic collaboration.

• Liaise with Third Party vendors and partners.

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

• Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation.

• Building Support: We establish close relationships with our stakeholders, underpinned by trust, integrity, and respect. We build awareness, understanding, and positive momentum behind the group technology strategy, often without being in a position to assert authority.

• Objective: We are impartial and unbiased, ensuring equal treatment for all and that decisions are based on objective criteria.

• Collaborative: We work effectively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals that align towards the achievement of the group strategy. We foster a collaborative environment and assume the role of leader when required.

• Adaptable: We understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue and adapt our approach to achieve a successful outcome.

• Strategic Thinking: We think about the big picture and use that perspective to support our divisions to achieve competitive advantage through greater agility, faster time to market and a better customer experience.

• Strategic Communication: We are proactive and considered in our approach to stakeholder communications. We actively listen, provide constructive feedback and help others to consider new perspectives.

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:

• Building and operating Infrastructure and Cloud platforms, ideally within highly-available AWS environments.

• Optimise reliability monitoring & alerting.

• Proven experience in not just relocating but also strategically rehosting, refactoring, and rearchitecting services, ensuring they seamlessly integrate into AWS.

• Proficiency with source control management tools (like Git, GitHub) coupled with extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline optimisation.

• Proven expertise in curating, managing, and optimising deployment assets, including EC2 AMIs, container images, and artefacts.

• Demonstrated proficiency in employing Infrastructure as Code methodologies using tools such as CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation and Kubernetes, at scale.

• Orchestration and management of container platforms, preferably using Kubernetes.

• Extensive experience in delivering and operating systems within stringent security-compliant environments, ensuring both compliance and performance.

• Producing and overseeing comprehensive, clear, and actionable technical documentation.

• Sharing knowledge with your peers and across the wider engineering community.

• Working in an agile environment.

• Incident, change, problem, and risk management.

• Bonus points for previous software engineering experience, coding, and automation.
  
   

  Why choose us:

  
  Aside from a generous base salary, we have a fantastic benefits & rewards program that is designed to encourage personal and career development.

• Discretionary annual bonus

• 30 days paid leave

• Health and Dental Insurance for you, your partner, and your children (if you all live at the same address)

• Personal life insurance and disability coverage

• Wellbeing fund

• Continuous learning support for certifications and career growth

• 550 EUR gift for a newborn family member

• 26 weeks Maternity leave at 100% pay and 4 week secondary (Paternity) also at 100% pay, no eligibility period applies

• A sports card membership valid across the country

• Discounts as a compliment from us among different services

• Monthly food vouchers
  
  Equal opportunities:
  At Flutter International we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where our people can be their authentic selves and thrive. We embrace and celebrate diversity, respecting all our uniqueness and differences.
  We invite you to inform us if you have any accessibility requirements. Simply send an email to talent@flutterint.com. Our goal is to make sure you have what’s necessary to thrive with us.
  Learn more about the work we are doing on Inclusion and Belonging here: https://careers.flutterinternational.com/working-at-flutter-international/diversity-equity-inclusion/
  
  The group:
  Flutter Functions is a proud member of the Flutter Entertainment family, a global leader in sports betting, iGaming, and entertainment. We are listed on the FTSE 100 index and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Our world-class brands and innovative products set us apart. Our International division operates in over 100 global markets. It offers sports betting, casino, poker, rummy, and lottery, mainly online. We are committed to delivering gaming and entertainment responsibly and sustainably. Our team of over 8,000 colleagues supports this vision across 28 offices worldwide.