Platform Engineer
At evoke, you'll help power the technology behind some of the world's most recognised betting and gaming brands, including William Hill, 888 and Mr Green. Our platforms process up to 500 online bets per second, support more than 20 million users, and handle over 160 terabytes of data every day.
This is an opportunity to work on technology at genuine scale, solving complex engineering challenges while contributing to the reliability, performance and evolution of critical platforms used across our business.
As a Platform Engineer, you'll join a collaborative and highly skilled team focused on building and supporting the shared platform services that enable engineering teams to deliver exceptional products. Whether you're working with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling or observability platforms, you'll play a key role in improving developer productivity, platform resilience and operational excellence.
- Build, maintain and enhance platform services that support multiple engineering teams across the organisation.
- Develop and manage cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and supporting ecosystem technologies.
- Create and optimise CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, automated and reliable software delivery.
- Improve platform reliability through observability, monitoring, automated testing and disaster recovery practices.
- Support production systems, participate in incident response and contribute to continuous service improvements.
- Collaborate with engineers, architects and stakeholders to deliver scalable platform solutions that meet business needs.
- Contribute to platform standards, documentation and engineering best practices to promote consistency and quality.
- Share knowledge, mentor colleagues and help foster a culture of learning, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Experience working with Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, and Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform (required).
- Knowledge of CI/CD technologies, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and modern software delivery practices (required).
- Familiarity with observability, security and operational excellence, including monitoring, incident management and platform reliability (required).
- Experience working in agile environments with a passion for automation, continuous learning and emerging technologies, including AI-powered engineering tools (required).
- Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
- Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
- Competitive salary, pension, and bonus schemes.
- Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education.
- Gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid working: Employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits or a cash alternative.
- Pension package, income protection and life assurance.
William Hill is one of the UK's best-known bookmakers, founded by its namesake in 1934 taking bets around Birmingham. It has since grown into an international, multi-brand betting and gaming business spanning online and retail. The company is now part of evoke plc (formerly 888 Holdings), one of the world's leading online betting and gaming groups. Headquartered in London, William Hill operates sports betting and gaming products across multiple markets.