Role Purpose
Flutter Technology are recruiting a Cloud Engineering Manager, responsible for managing a team of engineers that will 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.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to influence the technology choices across Flutter’s cloud hosting platforms. You will work with all brands across the group to migrate and modernize their services, deliver technology solutions to meet their needs, and promote knowledge sharing within the engineering community. You will also chip in to the evaluation and selection of AWS services, code and configuration management tools, and other components essential for achieving our group’s 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 organisations, 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 organisations on large scale migration/modernisation transformation projects. This will have involved a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, coupled with a strong technical understanding to provide confidence and answer questions, an ability to engage and help crystallise business benefits of migrations, demonstrate an excellent technical understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping to transform using cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of skilled cloud engineers.
- Prioritise and manage engineering activities within the team, using agile methods.
- Build and operate a secure, performant, and cost-effective AWS Cloud Platform.
- Automate system deployment and operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling.
- Maintain source code and artefact 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 LLDs for Flutter cloud services.
- Support cloud architecture and function leads with developing the cloud technology roadmap and strategy.
- Act as a trusted SME offering advice and knowledge sharing to the broader technology team and internal customers.
- Build 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 recognising opportunities for strategic collaboration.
- Liaise with Third Party vendors and partners.
- On-call is likely to be introduced in the future.
Competencies:
- Building Support: We establish close relationships with our stakeholders, underpinned by trust, integrity, and respect. We are able to build awareness, understanding, and positive momentum behind the group technology strategy, often without being in a position to assert authority.
- Objective: We are impartial and unbiased, ensuring equal treatment for all and that decisions are based on objective criteria.
- Collaborative: We work effectively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals that align towards the achievement of the group strategy. We cultivate a collaborative environment and assume the role of leader when required.
- Adaptable: We understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue and are able to adapt our approach in order to achieve a successful outcome.
- Strategic Thinking: We think about the big picture and use that perspective to support our divisions to achieve competitive advantage through greater agility, faster time to market and a better customer experience.
- Strategic Communication: We are proactive and considered in our approach to stakeholder communications. We actively listen, provide constructive feedback and help others to consider new points of view.
Experience:
- Leading small teams of engineers in the delivery and operation of AWS services.
- Building and operating Infrastructure and Cloud platforms, ideally within highly available AWS environments.
- Relocating, re-hosting, refactoring and re-architecting services into AWS.
- Working with source control management (Git, GitHub) and CI/CD Pipelines.
- Managing deployment assets such as AMIs, container images and artefacts.
- Managing Infrastructure as code using CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation.
- 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.
- Bonus points for previous software engineering experience, coding, and automation.
What Can You Expect
- 25 days of annual leave;
- Sharesave scheme;
- „Flexible Benefits” of your choice;
- Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);
- Free parking;
- Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy';
- Working from home options.
Ways Of Working
Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.
By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective roles within our company.
