Senior Platform Engineer
Working with evoke, you will be at the heart of the technological revolution of one of the world's most trusted betting and gaming companies, operating William Hill, 888 and Mr Green brands. The platform you support will process 500 online bets per second, accommodate 20 million users, and process 160 terabytes a day. Scale, reliability, and technical excellence matter here.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will lead complex technical work across the shared platforms that power multiple application services. You will shape technical designs, influence architectural decisions, contribute to strategic planning, and raise engineering standards through mentoring and technical leadership.
Evoke fosters a supportive culture that prioritises knowledge sharing and collaboration. Our strong DevOps culture promotes automation and seamless collaboration, and we continuously innovate 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, with 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, with a 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, complemented by incident management, on-call support and system reliability experience (required).
- Experienced working in agile environments with expert communication skills and iterative delivery practices, leveraging AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to improve engineering productivity and effectiveness (required).
- Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
- Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
- Financial compensation, 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 4 days with 1 day office time built in.
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.