Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and successfully deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation to production.

• Develop and sustain internal platform services and tools to enhance developer experience and accelerate delivery speed.

• Collaborate with application teams to remove obstacles in delivery and ensure platform capabilities meet developer requirements.

• Promote cost efficiency and optimization within cloud and infrastructure environments.

• Enhance operational excellence through improved observability, automation, and incident response strategies.

• Advance CI/CD pipelines and implement GitOps-based workflows.

• Provide mentorship to junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions.

• Engage in on-call rotations and manage incident response efforts.

• Work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tools.

• Collaborate with teams in Product Engineering, Security, Infrastructure IT, and other platform divisions.

• Assist in establishing standards and best practices to boost reliability, scalability, and developer efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering roles.

• Strong proficiency in Python and Java programming languages.

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Established experience with CI/CD and GitOps methodologies.

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Robust experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies.

• Experience in managing distributed, high-availability systems.

• Capability to independently deliver defined projects.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Applicants must reside in the UK or Ireland.

• Please note that Fanatics does not provide sponsorship.

• Familiarity with Kotlin or Go programming languages is a plus.

• Experience with internal developer platforms or tools is advantageous.

• Exposure to regulated or high-availability environments is a plus.

• Background in backend development is advantageous.

• Knowledge of observability and reliability engineering practices is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Periodic travel to the United States for offsite meetings, planning sessions, and collaboration opportunities.

• Occasional travel within the UK and Ireland.

• In-person interviews or onboarding components may be required based on the position and location.

• Participation in Better: LIVE, a multi-day cultural immersion experience in New York City, may be included for full-time, non-seasonal hires.

• Opportunity to work in a globally distributed environment.

• Access to mentoring and knowledge-sharing opportunities.