Senior Cloud Engineer - Flutter Functions, Hybrid & Remote

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 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.

Role Overview:

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.

Benefits:

• Hybrid & remote working options

• €1,000 per year for self-development

• Company share scheme

• 25 days of annual leave per year

• 20 days per year to work abroad

• 5 personal days/year

• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies

• Extended health, dental and travel insurances

• Customised well-being programmes

• Career growth sessions

• Thousands of online courses through Udemy

• A variety of engaging office events

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.

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