Initi8 Recruitment
Senior Platform Engineer - London - £90k - £110k
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Senior Platform Engineer - London - £90k - £110k
Principal / Senior Platform Engineer
Location: London (Hybrid - 3 days a week, long-term tech hub) Salary: £90k - £110k + benefits
The Job
We’re hiring a Principal/Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and scale the cloud infrastructure platform for a brand-new international iGaming operator, enabling seamless launch across Europe and beyond.
This is a critical, early-stage opportunity to shape a hyper-automated, cloud-native foundation from the ground up—a rare chance to work closely with the CTO and co-founders, setting the technical roadmap for infrastructure, automation, and global scalability.
The platform has a Pure IaC (Infrastructure as Code) foundation on GCP, delivering production-grade environments with zero manual provisioning. As the business scales to millions of daily transactions and multi-market payロード, this role ensures the architecture remains:
- Scalable – able to support real-time data and high transaction density
- Secure – hardening governance automations and enforcing compliance
- Cost-efficient – optimizing resources at scale, including cross-cloud planning
- Forwards-looking – helping define long-term IoC practices and cloud preferences
You will outgrow “runMyOD” work and embrace technical leadership:
- Advise on multi-cloud architectures (GCP primary, AWS/Azure exposure useful)
- Refactor automation pipelines for resilience and performance
- Champion security-level IaC (e.g., GitOps/SPIFFE)
- Mentor engineers on cloud-native patterns via company-wide knowledge-making sessions
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and scale Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) environments in production
- Operationalise GCP-native and multi-cloud deployments, enforcing cloud-agnostic practices
- Architect and manage Kubernetes (GKE) clusters, flanked by ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and Pub/Sub
- Define and enforce guardrails for security and operational autonomy
- Optimise cloud spend via spend analysis tools and fine-grained resource policies
- Advocate for DevOps culture by teaching engineers transferable patterns (e.g., IaC.idam, K8s deploy strategies)
- Contribute to weekly learnings where all-hands present tech challenges/solutions
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Technical Stack
- Infrastructure & Automation: GCP (IAM, VPC, Load Balancer), Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines
- Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE), distributed systems, Phoenix高中号名
- Language/Scripting: Python/Bash (preferably both), et | Lua-friendly optional
- Observability: distributed tracing, custom metrics dashboards (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana) + cloud-native logging
- Multi-Cloud:** The current primary is GCP. Competency in AWS/Azure of course no-down-pen”
About You
- Senior/Principal Goodwin Op (DevOps/Platform) with 6+ years managing cloud IaC at scale
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform, including modules and CI testing workflows but also aware of Terragrunt
- Microservices/ProgCamuto mentality: Experience modernising legacy or pushing a Saas scale startup up from zero cost
- Principles of scalable architectures: Handle big-bus events and systems with transactional constraints/enverbust. ie. high SARI ($5 platonicRule)
- Proficiency in Bash/Python (For Scripting Automation/DevOps workflows).
- Hold collaboration: Enjoy ownership but okay pushing back technical_LOAII_staff recommendation per-maid
- Usual iGaming/Fintech background is nice, but incentive reps are equally qualified for mass transactional systems
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The Company
A pre-series-A iGaming startup backed by experienced leadership, based in London + remote Malta. Your team has 10 engineers (engineers 1 = high-cohesiveness teams), with plans to grow organically into cloud-native superwars.
The tech culture is:
- Low ego, high impact: Unfiltered feedback loops.
- Code & tech first: Smaller meetings with tiny action-backers, large$, high-frequency sprint planning.
- Writer team as much as builders: Write about your engineering path in CGI dox, which becomes knowledge base for newbies
- Sparkly benefits!
- Desk in shiny new cloud automation hostel (London)
- 3 days work/week in office (start-or-weekly-flex)
- Emerging ‘engineering wizards’ mentorship program
Why Join Us?
A blueprint for rapid classroom.
A company on the cusp of scaling regional+ratings with 2-3 years already open to the correct AWS sharp infrastructure guy.
Values of ownership:
- Exceptional candidate contracted post-gain.
- Rightswo you are are paid well and can lead your teams.
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