Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer, Flutter Functions

at Betfair Romania Development

• Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer, Flutter Functions
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, DNS, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, Kubernetes, Linux, Prometheus, Shell Scripting, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Senior DevOps Engineer managing GitOps workflows for cloud-native platforms at Flutter Entertainment. Collaborating with teams to ensure availability, performance, and security in online gaming.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and own GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, including ApplicationSets/generator plugins and multi-environment, multi-cluster deployment patterns
• Define and maintain Kubernetes platform standards (namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, ingress, observability, backup/restore, multi-cluster, etc.)
• Implement and manage policy-as-code using OPA/Gatekeeper and Kyverno to enforce security, compliance and best practices across clusters
• Architect and operate an advanced service mesh with Istio, including traffic management, mutual TLS, zero-trust patterns, resilience and observability
• Use Crossplane (XRDs/CRDs) and Kustomize to deliver fully declarative infrastructure and application configuration, enabling true platform-as-code
• Build, maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, environment promotion, releases and rollbacks
• Integrate Trivy, SonarQube and related tooling into pipelines to provide end-to-end SCA, image scanning and static analysis, ensuring secure-by-default delivery
• Design, implement and operate scalable, resilient solutions on AWS, collaborating on architecture and making pragmatic, high-impact design decisions
• Manage and optimize content delivery and edge security using AWS CloudFront and other CDNs, including WAF integration and DDoS mitigation
• Implement and evolve observability using Grafana Cloud (Prometheus, adaptive metrics, logging and alerting), ensuring actionable insights and SLO-driven operations
• Contribute to and at times lead incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement of reliability, performance and operability
• Drive automation and self-service (e.g. GitOps + Crossplane + ArgoCD patterns) to reduce manual work and empower product teams to manage their own infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, security and operations teams to align on standards, simplify delivery and remove friction
• Own documentation for the platform, patterns, runbooks and best practices, ensuring they are discoverable and up to date
• Mentor and coach engineers in DevOps / platform practices, GitOps, Kubernetes and cloud; act as a role model for engineering excellence and ways of working
• Engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, clearly explaining trade-offs, risks and options

Requirements

• Strong understanding of cloud-native operations, Kubernetes platforms and infrastructure as code principles
• 4+ years’ experience running Kubernetes and Docker in production (high-load, high-availability environments)
• Hands-on expertise with GitOps: particularly ArgoCD (ApplicationSets, generator plugins, multi-cluster, promotion workflows)
• Strong experience with Crossplane (XRD/CRD design, compositions, providers) and Kustomize for environment overlays and reusable configurations
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes security: OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Network Policies, secrets management, RBAC and compliance controls
• Advanced experience with Istio (or similar service mesh) – traffic routing, mTLS, authorization policies, canary/blue-green strategies, observability
• Solid experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, including pipelines as code and environment promotion
• Practical experience integrating Trivy and SonarQube (or equivalent) into CI/CD for SCA, container image scanning and code quality/security checks
• 4+ years of * Linux/nix engineering and administration; strong shell scripting and remote server management (SSH)
• Strong AWS experience (networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, managed services); multi-cloud knowledge (GCP/Azure) is a plus
• 3–4+ years managing CDNs such as AWS CloudFront, Akamai or Cloudflare, including WAF, caching and edge security policies
• Understanding of DDoS attack mechanisms and mitigation tools (e.g. AWS Shield, CloudFront, Akamai/Cloudflare protections)
• Experience with large-scale DNS implementations and traffic management strategies
• Hands-on experience with Grafana Cloud, including Prometheus metrics, adaptive metrics strategies, dashboards and alerting best practices
• Proficiency with Git and modern branching / pull request workflows; comfortable with trunk-based or GitOps-oriented models
• Experience with configuration management and IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible (or similar)
• Proven incident management experience and an ability to make pragmatic operational decisions under pressure
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, mentoring and collaboration skills; able to influence ways of working and uplift the wider team.

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events