Lead Platform Engineer
Description
Push Gaming is looking to hire a Lead Platform Engineer to lead the design, development and maintenance of the underlying platform that supports the company's products and services, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance. The role manages the platform engineering team and drives the technical decisions behind it.
The successful candidate will be based in a hybrid capacity in either London or Warsaw.
Responsibilities
- Design the platform architecture.
- Build a robust, scalable, fault-tolerant architecture using modern cloud-native technologies, microservices, containers and the rest.
- Lead, mentor and manage a team of platform engineers, fostering technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement aligned with business objectives.
- Manage and automate cloud provisioning with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker, keeping environments consistent, reproducible and cost-effective.
- Embed security best practice into the platform's design and processes.
- Define and own how the platform evolves to meet future business and regulatory needs.
- Provide self-service tools, automated CI/CD pipelines and standardised workflows that minimise developers' cognitive load so they can focus on features.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting so uptime and performance hold, and give development teams the data to troubleshoot fast.
- Work with compliance so the platform meets technical standards such as GLI and UKGC for data integrity, security and responsible gaming.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE or platform engineering role, with at least 2 years in a leadership or senior capacity. (required)
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). (required)
- Extensive hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible). (required)
- Strong software engineering background with proficiency in a modern programming language such as Go, Python or Java. (required)
- Proven ability to design and build highly scalable, resilient and distributed systems. (required)
- Solid understanding of information security principles and the technical requirements of iGaming regulators. (required)
- Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues in a production environment. (required)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. (required)
- Direct experience within B2B iGaming or another high-transactional, regulated industry. (required)
About Push Gaming
Push Gaming is a business-to-business iGaming content provider and online slots studio, known for mobile-first titles such as Jammin' Jars and Razor Shark. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London with a hub in Malta, it supplies casino games to operators across regulated markets.