Lead Platform Engineer
Push Gaming · London, United Kingdom · hybrid
Lead Platform Engineer
Push Gaming is a dynamic and innovative game development studio specialising in creating top-quality, mobile-optimised online casino games. With a passion for gaming and a commitment to pushing boundaries, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences to players worldwide.
We are looking to hire a Lead Platform Engineer to lead the design, development and maintenance of the underlying platform that supports the company's products and services, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance. The role manages the platform engineering team and drives the technical decisions behind it.
Location: hybrid in London or Warsaw.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design the platform architecture. Build a robust, scalable, fault-tolerant architecture using modern cloud-native technologies, microservices, containers and the rest.
- Lead the team. Lead, mentor and manage a team of platform engineers, fostering technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement aligned with business objectives.
- Automate the infrastructure. Manage and automate cloud provisioning with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker, keeping environments consistent, reproducible and cost-effective.
- Build security in. Embed security best practice into the platform's design and processes.
- Own the technical roadmap. Define and own how the platform evolves to meet future business and regulatory needs.
- Raise developer productivity. Provide self-service tools, automated CI/CD pipelines and standardised workflows that minimise developers' cognitive load so they can focus on features.
- Own observability. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting so uptime and performance hold,
and give development teams the data to troubleshoot fast.
- Meet regulatory standards. Work with compliance so the platform meets technical standards such as GLI and UKGC for data integrity, security and responsible gaming.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE or platform engineering role, with at least 2 years in a leadership or senior capacity.
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Extensive hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Strong software engineering background with proficiency in a modern programming language such as Go, Python or Java.
- Proven ability to design and build highly scalable, resilient and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of information security principles and the technical requirements of iGaming regulators.
- Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues in a production environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Direct experience within B2B iGaming or another high-transactional, regulated industry.
Why join us?
It’s a really exciting time to join Push Gaming. We’re expanding our teams to deliver some stellar work.
We are passionate about creating premium quality games and will never compromise on this. The approach we take in building and strengthening our team is no different. We set out to attract and retain high performers and are committed to seeking like-minded individuals who share our vision for excellence and quality.
In turn, we offer all the tools and support to allow individuals to grow and thrive, while achieving both personal and company goals in an environment that’s built around trust, collaboration, transparency and accountability.