Platform Engineer
At evoke, you’ll help power the technology behind some of the world’s most recognised betting and gaming brands, including William Hill, 888 and Mr Green. Our platforms process up to 500 online bets per second, support more than 20 million users, and handle over 160 terabytes of data every day. This is an opportunity to work on technology at genuine scale, solving complex engineering challenges while contributing to the reliability, performance and evolution of critical platforms used across our business.
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll join a collaborative and highly skilled team focused on building and supporting the shared platform services that enable engineering teams to deliver exceptional products. Whether you’re working with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling or observability platforms, you’ll play a key role in improving developer productivity, platform resilience and operational excellence.
What you’ll be doing
- Build, maintain and enhance platform services that support multiple engineering teams across the organisation.
- Develop and manage cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and supporting ecosystem technologies.
- Create and optimise CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, automated and reliable software delivery.
- Improve platform reliability through observability, monitoring, automated testing and disaster recovery practices.
- Support production systems, participate in incident response and contribute to continuous service improvements.
- Collaborate with engineers, architects and stakeholders to deliver scalable platform solutions that meet business needs.
- Contribute to platform standards, documentation and engineering best practices to promote consistency and quality.
- Share knowledge, mentor colleagues and help foster a culture of learning, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Who we are looking for:
We are committed to responsible gambling, and we are looking for people who can support our ethos. To apply to this post, you will have:
- Experience working with Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, and Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform.
- Knowledge of CI/CD technologies, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and modern software delivery practices.
- Familiarity with observability, security and operational excellence, including monitoring, incident management and platform reliability.
- Experience working in agile environments with a passion for automation, continuous learning and emerging technologies, including AI-powered engineering tools.
What we offer:
Our roles offer more than just a job, you’ll become part of the evoke family! We have created an environment where our people can thrive. Check out some fantastic benefits on offer:
- Financial: You’ll be compensated a competitive base salary and benefits.
- Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well-being, offering fully paid private healthcare via Lux Med.
- Life assurance: Safeguarding your financial future and offering peace of mind with a company-sponsored life assurance plan.
- Wellbeing events: Including workshops, webinars; Psychological Helpline for you and your loved ones; access to psychological platforms such as Unmind.
- Social activities: We love a chance to share knowledge and have fun, coordinating meetups, quality questions events and hackathons.
- Free parking: You’ll have access to underground parking space for cars, motorcycles and bikes.
- Other perks: Fully paid Multisport passor MyBenefit cafeteria points, employee referral program, and an extra day off for your birthday. We also offer free English and Polish classes for our colleagues!
- Hybrid working: Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!
More about Grand Parade
We’re a business that embraces change and progress. With a rich history behind us, we’ve learned a lot and have led the industry in many ways. Now part of evoke, we are marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business.
Our culture is all about creating great experiences, for both our customers and our people. You’ll benefit from flexibility and trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you. By investing in you, we’ll raise our game. Across all that we do, we aim for excellence, encourage creativity, and have fun.
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At evoke, we prioritise diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth. We win together by working as one inclusive team to achieve great things.
So, what’s next? The first step in the recruitment process is to submit your online application, which will be followed by an initial screening call with our Talent Acquisition team, and if successful, you will then be invited to interview.
Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke family!
Business evokeWould you like to join us?
Great! Find out all about the recruitment process and see how step by step you can become a part of our Grand Parade community.
1. Apply
Send your resume via our website and if you’re successful, we’ll contact you via email or phone.
2. HR screen
Our Recruitment Team will arrange a call to discuss your experience and learn more about your job expectations.
3. Technical interview
The next step on the road will be phone (Skype or BlueJeans) call with one of our technical recruiters who'd like to learn more about your skills and knowledge.
4. F2F interview
...and we're almost there! The final step is meeting with Development Lead or Hiring Manager who will tell you more about what we do and will be happy to answer your questions.