Platform Product Manager
As a Product Manager within Platform Engineering, you will be responsible for defining and executing the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our Internal Developer Platform (IDP), developer experience initiatives, platform automation, and emerging AI capabilities. You will ensure platform investments deliver measurable business value, improve engineering productivity, accelerate software delivery, and provide a scalable foundation for future growth. Reporting to the Head of Platform Engineering, you will work closely with engineering, architecture, security, product, and operational teams to identify opportunities, prioritise outcomes, and drive adoption of platform capabilities across the organisation. You will act as the bridge between business objectives and technical delivery, ensuring platform engineering efforts remain aligned to organisational goals. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our engineering ecosystem, driving platform strategy, developer experience, cloud native adoption, and Agentic AI capabilities that empower colleagues across Product and Technology.
- Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), ensuring alignment with business and technology objectives.
- Establish a product operating model for Platform Engineering, balancing engineering enablement, operational excellence, security, and innovation.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify developer pain points and opportunities to improve productivity, reliability, and delivery speed.
- Drive the adoption and continuous evolution of self service platform capabilities, including infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, environment management, and developer workflows.
- Define success metrics and key performance indicators such as deployment frequency, lead time for change, developer satisfaction, platform adoption, service reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain a prioritised platform backlog based on business value, engineering feedback, technical risk, and strategic outcomes.
- Lead discovery activities, stakeholder engagement, user research, and platform maturity assessments to inform roadmap decisions.
- Champion developer experience across the organisation, improving onboarding, service creation, documentation, templates, and engineering workflows.
- Define and drive the strategy for Agentic AI capabilities that accelerate colleagues across Product and Technology through intelligent workflows, automation, decision support, and operational assistance.
- Work with engineering teams to identify and deliver AI powered opportunities that improve productivity, reduce manual effort, and enhance platform operations.
- Collaborate with security, architecture, and compliance teams to ensure platform capabilities meet organisational standards and regulatory requirements.
- Develop business cases and value frameworks for platform investments, demonstrating measurable return on investment and engineering effectiveness improvements.
- Communicate platform strategy, roadmap progress, adoption metrics, and outcomes to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies across Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms, Cloud Native technologies, Developer Experience, and AI to inform future platform direction.
- Foster a product mindset within Platform Engineering, focusing on customer needs, adoption, outcomes, and continuous improvement rather than technology delivery alone.
- 4–7 years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or similar role (required).
- Proven experience in designing or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform or developer productivity tools (required).
- Strong skills in Shell scripting (Bash/PowerShell) and programming (Python or Java) (required).
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI/CD (required).
- Proficiency with Git version control and branching strategies (required).
- Strong AI skills use (required).
- Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and logging solutions (ELK/Datadog) (required).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP (required).
- Strong understanding of infrastructure and application security best practices (required).
- Competitive salaries
- Option to buy/ sell and carry over annual leave
- Additional days leave to take on Christmas eve or NYE
- Relocation support depending on existing location
- Private Healthcare
- Hybrid working
- Room to grow and develop throughout the business
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.