Senior Platform Engineer
As a Senior Platform Engineer, the successful candidate will lead complex technical work across the shared platforms that power multiple application services. The role involves shaping technical designs, influencing architectural decisions, contributing to strategic planning, and raising engineering standards through mentoring and technical leadership.
William Hill fosters a supportive culture that prioritises knowledge sharing and collaboration. The engineering team maintains a strong DevOps culture that promotes automation and continuous innovation to meet dynamic industry demands.
- Implementing observability, security controls, automated testing, and disaster recovery plans to ensure platform reliability and resilience.
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to deliver automated, efficient, and reliable software deployments across multiple teams.
- Designing and developing scalable container orchestration and data storage platforms to support business growth and performance.
- Supporting and resolving production incidents, including participation in on-call rotations to maintain service availability.
- Defining, promoting, and mentoring engineering best practices, improving documentation, and driving adoption of consistent technical standards.
- Enhancing developer experience by optimising CI/CD workflows, tooling, and processes across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Provisioning and managing EKS clusters, Kubernetes add-ons, and wider container ecosystem components to support cloud-native platforms.
- Building, deploying, and maintaining platform infrastructure, including a bespoke Linux OS for 1,400+ retail locations and critical Trading, Core, and Sports platforms.
- AWS expertise across networking, compute, storage, security and container services (required).
- Hands-on experience in Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt, and Kubernetes, including multi-account EKS cluster and add-on management, controllers, CRDs and wider ecosystem tooling (required).
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions and ArgoCD/FluxCD (required).
- Strong focus on security best practices across the software delivery lifecycle, automated testing and high-quality documentation (required).
- Skilled in observability and monitoring using Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana to build reusable dashboards and alerts (required).
- Incident management, on-call support and system reliability experience (required).
- Experienced working in agile environments with expert communication skills and iterative delivery practices (required).
- Experience leveraging AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to improve engineering productivity and effectiveness (required).
- Competitive salary, pension, and bonus schemes.
- Hybrid working model with up to 80% remote work for Gibraltar-based employees.
- 25 days holiday plus 12 bank holidays.
- Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off for caring responsibilities.
- Life assurance.
- Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
- Well-being support including mental health resources, financial education, gym discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
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.