This is not a live vacancy. We are building a talent pipeline ahead of anticipated demand and are keen to connect with strong Senior and Lead Cloud Platform Engineers for future opportunities.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, building, operating, and continuously improving cloud-native platforms that enable development teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure applications.
The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices with a strong operational mindset. They will be responsible for maintaining the health and evolution of containerised workloads, enhancing developer experience, and driving improvements across infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform services.
At the Lead level, this role also combines that hands-on expertise with team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery planning. The right candidate can operate credibly at an engineering level while also communicating clearly with business and technical stakeholders, translating platform priorities into a coherent roadmap and ensuring the team has the clarity and support needed to deliver effectively.
This role requires a proactive engineer who can work independently, collaborate effectively across teams, and contribute to the ongoing maturity of modern cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and support the operational health, reliability, scalability, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads
- Manage and evolve Kubernetes environments, including workload deployment, configuration management, cluster operations, and platform upgrades
- Drive and maintain GitOps practices to ensure consistent, automated, and auditable infrastructure and application deployments
- Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure-as-code solutions to support scalable, repeatable, and secure cloud environments
- Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery, improve deployment reliability, and reduce operational overhead
- Manage and optimise cloud-native and managed platform services, including capacity planning, performance tuning, cost optimisation, patching, and lifecycle management
- Partner with software engineering teams to support application deployment, troubleshooting, observability, and platform adoption
- Monitor platform health and respond to incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements
- Identify technical debt and contribute to platform roadmaps focused on operational excellence, security, automation, and developer productivity
- Champion best practices in cloud architecture, security, reliability, automation, and platform engineering
- Participate in on-call support and incident management activities as required, including for the EKS platform
Additional Key Responsibilities for the Lead
- Own the platform engineering roadmap, working with business and technical stakeholders to prioritise initiatives, surface risks, and align delivery against wider programme goals
- Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, providing technical guidance, supporting growth, and maintaining quality and consistency across the team's output
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for platform-related matters across engineering, product, and operations teams
- Translate platform priorities into clear, actionable plans, ensuring the team understands objectives, dependencies, and delivery timelines
- Contribute to resourcing, planning, and prioritisation discussions, balancing technical debt, reliability, and new feature delivery
- Provide regular updates on roadmap progress, risks, and dependencies to relevant stakeholders and leadership
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster administration, workload management, networking, security, and performance optimisation
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, with a strong understanding of managed cloud services
- Hands-on experience with GitOps methodologies and related tooling
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience building and maintaining automated delivery pipelines
- Experience working with container technologies and cloud-native architectures
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and incident management practices
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across infrastructure, platform, and application layers
- Experience supporting software development teams in deploying and operating distributed applications
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams
- Betting and gaming domain knowledge required
Additional Essential Skills for the Lead
- Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineers, with the ability to balance technical leadership with people development
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business priorities into technical roadmaps and vice versa
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable operating across both technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable
- Experience with Amazon EKS or other managed Kubernetes platforms
- Familiarity with Flux, Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize
- Experience supporting managed data and messaging platforms such as RDS, Kafka, or equivalent services
- Knowledge of application runtimes and services built using Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar technologies
- Experience implementing cloud security controls, governance, and compliance requirements
- Exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) practices and platform engineering frameworks
What we’ll offer you:
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Our hiring process
We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.
It usually looks like this:
- Call with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Role specific capability interview
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
Inclusion at CreateFuture
We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
We look forward to your application!