Platform Cloud Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Cloud role at Caesars Sportsbook. Krakow · full-time.
Pay not stated Cloud Engineer salary
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What you'll do
- Build and tune secure, reliable platform components that help developers deliver applications
- Work with the technical lead and solutions architect to shape and build complex features
- Improve developer workflows with reusable code, design patterns and platform techniques
- Review code with peers and use feature quality metrics to guide product choices and track performance
- Join the on-call rotation and help move developers’ code into production
What you bring
- Four to six years building infrastructure-as-code solutions
- Experience maintaining or delivering large platforms used by multiple teams, plus hands-on Kubernetes work
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and containers, including cloud security controls
- You can use observability tools such as OTEL, NewRelic or Splunk, and work with CI/CD pipelines and scripting or programming languages
- You contribute quality code and understand MakeFiles, DockerBuild files and YAML
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits a hands-on platform engineer who enjoys improving developer experience, collaborating across teams and taking part in code reviews. You’ll work from the Krakow office one or two days a week and participate in on-call support.
From the employer
As a Cloud Core Platform Engineer, you will be essential in supporting our developers, lower environments, and ultimately our production system. We run a 24x7x365 business and must develop a highly performant, resilient, scalable, and user-focused platform. You will assist in the implementation of critical projects while working with your team (pod), collaborate across teams within the platform organization to ensure best practices and innovative solutions are adopted and interact with Developers to get their code into production. We focus on delivering exceptional user experiences for our developers and areas of support. This role empowers you to lead the charge in advancing frontend technologies and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
This is a hybrid role reporting onsite to our Krakow, Poland office 1-2 days a week.
What You Will Do
- Leverage your expertise to assist in design, develop, and optimize complex features along with the technical lead and solutions architect.
- Build and maintain extremely performant components optimized for our developers to deliver world class applications in a secure and reliable manner.
- Assist in delivering initiatives to meet the demands of our business: A Stable, performant, supportable platform.
- Advocate for & deliver development experience improvements.
- Tackle optimization challenges head-on, creating efficient, reusable, and modular code using design patterns and best practices.
- Stay at the forefront of platform technologies, continuously exploring and implementing new techniques to improve development workflows.
- Actively participate in peer code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback to drive code quality.
- Foster technical growth and collaboration within the engineering team.
- Implement feature quality analytics to inform product decisions and monitor performance.
- Gaming licenses in several United States Jurisdictions for deploying and supporting our backend systems
- Take part in On-Call Support
What You’ll Need:
- 4–6 years of experience developing infrastructure as code solutions.
- Experience delivering and/or maintaining large-scale multi-team platforms
- Experience working in a Kubernetes environments
- Experience using tools like OTEL, NewRelic, and Splunk to understand performance and issues
- Thorough understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and containers - core principles, patterns, and best practices
- Open to learning how to implement and support scalable, maintainable, and robust hybrid platform architecture. (Due to the wire act, we must be able to support on-premise locations)
- Understanding of security controls around cloud solutions.
- Excellent communication, able to clearly articulate and raise risks, issues, and plans.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, bash scripting, python or GO languages
- Problem-solving skills for tackling complex, unconventional technical challenges.
- Proficient and active in code reviews
- This position is a core contributor and requires committing of quality code
- Strong understanding of MakeFiles, DockerBuild files, and YAML.
Nice to Have:
- Proficiency in testing methodologies (unit, integration, and UI tests).
- A background in working with real-time applications and push data
- Excellent time and project management skills, with a track record of delivering high-quality products.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.