Senior Cloud Engineering Manager - Flutter Group (hybrid & remote)

Role purpose:

Flutter Technology is recruiting a Senior Cloud Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Engineering teams in driving the implementation, automation, and operation of our greenfield AWS cloud platform. The platform will underpin the global services consumed by the group's well-known betting brands.

This role offers a phenomenal 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 crucial for achieving our group’s strategic objectives.

As a Senior Cloud Engineering Manager, you will guide and mentor Cloud Engineering teams, encouraging collaboration and aligning technical efforts with business goals and priorities. You should be comfortable working with cross-functional global teams in dynamic organizations, as the role will have interdependencies with teams in AWS, our partners, and our own engineering teams across various functions in various brands.

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and communication skills to effectively lead and mentor teams of cloud engineers, cultivate collaboration, and align technical efforts with business goals and priorities. Additionally, experience working with enterprise organizations on large-scale migration/ modernization transformation projects is desired. This will involve a customer-focused and collaborative approach, coupled with a strong technical understanding to provide confidence and answer questions, an ability to engage and help crystallize business benefits of migrations, demonstrate an excellent technical understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping to transform using cloud technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering the strategic vision for the cloud engineering function, ensuring that objectives align with the overall goals of the value stream
• Lead multiple engineering teams, consisting of engineering managers and skilled cloud engineers.
• Collaborate with lead engineers to develop comprehensive career development strategies that align with team goals, objectives, and organizational priorities.
• Influence and craft the ways of working within the cloud function, promoting agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement frameworks to improve efficiency, collaboration, and innovation.
• Build and operate a secure, performant, and cost-efficient AWS Cloud Platform.
• Automate system deployment and operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling.
• Ensure teams maintain source code and artifact repositories.
• 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 managing relationships, and recognizing 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 can 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 candid, ensuring equal treatment for all and that decisions are based on objective criteria.
• Collaborative: We work effectively and in partnership with our collaborators 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 can adapt our approach 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:

• Extensive experience in managing cloud engineering teams and leading large-scale migration/modernization projects
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively mentor teams and cultivate collaboration
• Use feedback and insights gathered to make informed adjustments to team processes, workflows, or tools, aspiring to improve productivity, collaboration, and morale
• Building and operating Infrastructure and Cloud platforms, ideally within highly available AWS environments.
• Relocating, rehosting, refactoring, and re-architecting services into AWS.
• Working with source control management (Git, GitHub) and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Handling deployment assets such as AMIs, container images, and artifacts.
• Managing Infrastructure as code using CDK, Terraform, and 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 you can 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'.

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 a prospective role within the group.