Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering - Flutter UKI, Hybrid

About Betfair Romania Development:

Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world's leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.

Our Values:

The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.

Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact

About Flutter UKI:

Flutter UK & Ireland are the UKI region of Flutter Entertainment. They unite a dozen brands including powerhouses Paddy Power, Betfair, Tombola and Sky Betting & Gaming, bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues, who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.

Role Overview:

We power the products our customers love by building and operating the foundational Infrastructure & Platforms that UKI engineering depends on — private cloud, data centres, core infrastructure services, and the reliability guardrails that keep them safe. When the business drives forward, it's our platforms that enable progress by providing the foundations for success.

We're engineers and leaders who take ownership, reduce complexity, and turn stability into momentum for the teams building customer experiences across our brands.

This role owns the simplification and stability of our foundational hosting platforms — reducing complexity, operational risk, and cost-to-serve while improving the platform experience for every engineering team that depends on them.

You'll lead senior engineering leaders and teams operating a business-critical, regulated estate. Your decisions will directly shape reliability, delivery speed, and our ability to modernise safely at pace.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Own and modernise private cloud, data centre and core infrastructure platforms (capacity, lifecycle, DR, and service performance).
• Drive simplification through decommissioning, consolidation and automation — reducing KTLO and operational toil.
• Raise reliability: availability/SLO performance, incident reduction, repeat-issue elimination, and strong operational hygiene.
• Lead security and resilience execution: patching, vulnerability remediation, backup/restore assurance and DR testing with evidence.
• Set the strategy and translate it into delivery: clear OKRs, measurable plans, and consistent execution across BAU + change.
• Build a high-performing leadership team: coaching, development, engagement, and sustainable on-call health.
• Establish standards that stick: documentation, golden configurations, guardrails and governance that teams trust.
• Run the commercials: vendor management, cost control, utilisation improvements, and accountable performance outcomes.
• Partner across the organisation to align delivery across Reliability Services, Cloud Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security and key suppliers.
• Lead with a platform-as-product mindset: clear ownership, roadmap thinking, and relentless focus on user experience for engineers.
• Use data to drive decisions: incident trends, change lead time, automation coverage, config drift, utilisation, SLOs and compliance SLAs.
• Balance "right now" outcomes with long-term foundations — simplifying the estate without creating tomorrow's problems.
• Communicate with impact at every level: engineers, senior leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement — not heroics.

What success looks like

• Lower incident rates, fewer repeat issues, and a simpler, well-documented estate that teams can rely on.
• Reduced KTLO and manual toil, with faster and safer change through automation.
• Lower unit costs and improved utilisation, with strong vendor performance and clear guardrails.
• Strong operational evidence: patch/vulnerability SLAs, DR and restore test results, and accurate asset/CMDB hygiene.

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:

• Proven senior leadership experience running critical infrastructure/platform services at scale (availability, resilience, compliance).
• Track record of simplification (decommissioning, consolidation, automation) that measurably reduces toil and improves stability.
• Strong operational governance: incident management, RCA discipline, change controls, DR/backup assurance.
• Ability to set strategy, define OKRs, and deliver through multiple teams with pace and accountability.
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management — confident at C-level and credible deep in the engineering detail.
• A people-first leadership style that builds capability, engagement and sustainable performance.

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

Disclaimer:

We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we're part of. You don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know, and we'll see how we can accommodate them.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements 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 three years, to consider you for prospective roles within the company.