Principal Cloud Engineer » Grand Parade part of William Hill

We are seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership across our cloud and infrastructure environments. This is a senior, hands-on engineering role responsible for designing resilient platforms, solving complex technical challenges, and helping shape the organization’s cloud engineering strategy. You will work across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, partnering closely with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and governance teams. The role requires broad infrastructure expertise, strong production experience, and the ability to turn complex business and regulatory requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable technical solutions. What you will be doing:

• Lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud and infrastructure solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, operating systems, networking, storage, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Design and implement infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles and tools.
• Solve complex technical issues across cloud platforms, infrastructure services, applications, and production environments.
• Produce clear technical designs, architecture documents, implementation plans, and operational documentation.
• Improve deployment processes and support the adoption of reliable CI/CD practices.
• Strengthen monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, capacity management, and operational readiness.
• Support and improve business-critical production systems, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and problem prevention.
• Identify opportunities to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation.
• Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and decision-making across multiple teams.
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to senior management and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, application engineering, compliance, and operations teams.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards across the cloud engineering function.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions aligned with business, security, operational, and regulatory requirements

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:

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale cloud and infrastructure platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized production environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure, including networking, storage, compute, virtualization, and security fundamentals.
• Strong administration and troubleshooting experience across both Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Experience with VMware and hybrid cloud environments.
• Good understanding of application deployment processes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
• Proven experience operating highly available, business-critical production systems.
• Experience working in large, complex, and highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex, cross-platform technical issues.
• Experience designing solutions for reliability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to use modern AI tools effectively and responsibly as part of engineering workflows.
• Strong technical documentation skills and the ability to communicate architectural decisions clearly.
• Professional proficiency in English.

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 of the fantastic benefits on offer: Family Support - Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities. Perks and discounts - Discounts at a range of high-street retailers Financial compensation, pension, and bonus schemes. Health & wellbeing - Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education. You will also have access to gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme. 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 evoke: We’re a business that embraces change and progress. The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke. At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on 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. Apply : 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. Sound good? Then you belong at our place! The first step in the recruitment process is kickstarting your application, followed by an initial screening call and an interview stage. Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family! Business evoke

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Would 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.