Cloud Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer Mid 1

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.

We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.

We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.

Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The Role

We are recruiting a Cloud Engineer to drive the implementation, automation, and operation of our greenfield AWS cloud platform. The platform will underpin the global services consumed by the groups well-known betting brands.
The role will contribute to the evaluation and selection of AWS services, code and configuration management tooling and the variety of components required to achieve our group strategic objectives.

You must be effective at articulating technology requirements, promoting cloud enablement, migrations and the methodologies required to reduce risk and achieve desired outcomes. You should be comfortable working with cross-functional global teams in dynamic organizations, as the role will have interdependencies with teams in AWS, our partners, and our own engineering teams across various functions in various brands.

The right candidate will have experience working with enterprise organizations on large-scale migration/modernization transformation projects. This will involve a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, coupled with a strong technical understanding to provide confidence and answer questions, an ability to engage and help crystallize the business benefits of migrations, an excellent technical understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for cloud technologies.

What You’ll Be Doing;

• Build and operate a secure, performant, and cost-effective AWS Cloud Platform.
  Optimize reliability monitoring & alerting.
• Be an active part of performance and capacity testing.
• Automate system deployment and operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling.
• Maintain source code and artifact repositories.
• Write and review platform code, offering constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
• Enable and support engineering teams with the adoption of cloud services.
• Triage incidents, problems, and risks impacting Flutter cloud services.
• Write and maintain appropriate technical documentation.
• Define, document, support, and approve Low-Level-Designs (LLDs) for Flutter cloud services.
• Support cloud architecture and function leads with an evolving cloud technology roadmap and strategy.
• Act as a trusted SME offering advice and knowledge sharing to the broader technology team and internal customers.
• Create and drive adoption of standard operating procedures, policies, and runbooks.
• Facilitate the development and communication of Flutter Group standards for design,
• development, and deployment.
• Liaise with other group functions, building and maintaining relationships, and recognizing opportunities for strategic collaboration.
• Liaise with third-party vendors and partners.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• On-call is likely to be introduced in the future.

We'd Like You To Master In:

• Building and operating Infrastructure and Cloud platforms, within highly-available AWS environments.
• Optimize reliability monitoring & alerting.
• Researching and developing new technologies for public cloud deployments.
• Relocating, rehosting, refactoring and rearchitecting services into AWS.
• Working with source control management (Git, GitHub) and GitOps and CI/CD Pipelines such as Argo or AWS CodePipeline.
• Managing deployment assets such as EC2 AMIs, container images and artefacts.
• Managing Infrastructure as code using CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.
• Orchestration and management of container platforms, preferably using Kubernetes.
• Delivering systems in security-compliant environments
• Writing and maintaining technical documentation.
• Sharing knowledge with your peers and across the wider engineering community.
• Working in an agile environment.
• Incident, change, problem, and risk management.
• Nice to have previous software engineering experience, coding, and automation.

This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well...you can check our amazing perks & benefits right here! 

So ... are you in? 

Equal opportunities

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.
We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. 
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to [email protected].

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.