About the Role
We are seeking a Platform Support Analyst to support, maintain, and improve our core platform and its associated products. This role acts as the primary point of contact for platform-related support queries and incidents, playing a vital part in ensuring the stability, performance, and availability of our services. The platform operates within a fully cloud-based AWS environment, providing exposure to modern, scalable technologies. You will work closely with engineering, product teams, and third-party providers to monitor system health, investigate issues, support deployments and integrations, and ensure incidents are resolved efficiently with clear communication to stakeholders. As part of a growing organisation, this role offers the opportunity to influence and enhance support processes and operational best practices, while developing hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure, platform operations, DevOps practices, and automation within a modern AWS and SaaS environment.
Responsibilities
- Investigate, resolve, and proactively prevent platform issues, with a strong focus on continuous improvement of systems and operational processes.
- Provide day-to-day technical support to internal stakeholders, ensuring services and deliverables are met effectively.
- Liaise with internal teams and external partners to maintain strong working relationships and uphold quality standards.
- Regularly review, maintain, and improve operational documentation, processes, and procedures.
- Support the testing, reporting, and implementation of fixes, including running scripts and validating solutions.
- Develop and maintain scripts to automate administrative and support tasks, improving efficiency and reliability.
- Provide general operational and administrative support to the infrastructure and platform teams as required.
Requirements
- Experience in a Platform support role and knowledge of the system life cycle.
- A team player and a desire to make a real impact in a growing business.
- A desire to learn new skills and get in front of new technology.
- Demonstrate high quality administrative and organisational skills.
- Strong work ethic and willingness to learn and develop, with a strong desire to undertake additional responsibilities.
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence to build relationships at all levels.
- Strives for service excellence, with superb attention to detail and strong commitment to quality.
- Consistently meets service levels and takes personal ownership of work, prioritising and organising workload to meet tight deadlines.
- Able to work under pressure and manage needs and demands of various stakeholders.
- Solve challenges using own initiative to explore solutions.
- Experience with Datadog for monitoring, alerting, and observability (Desirable)
- Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and cloud provisioning (Desirable)
- Experience using Argo CD for continuous delivery and application deployment (Desirable)
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms, including compute, storage, and networking concepts (Desirable)
Skills
- AWS Skillset (EKS, EC2, RDS etc)
- Excellent IT skills
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- GBP 35000 - GBP 45000
Benefits
- Generous bonus scheme
- Hybrid working
- Private medical insurance
- Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
- Ability to buy and sell holiday
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
- Entain & Enhance days
- Sharesave Scheme
About the Company
- Angstrom Sports is a proprietary sports pricing and product provider, building intricate, simulation driven pricing and risk systems to support the success of key sports brands across the Entain group.
- Founded in 2018 and having established itself as a pioneer in player-level, play-by-play simulations and forecasting, Angstrom was acquired by Entain in 2023.
- Today, we operate as a semi-autonomous division, responsible for delivering the group’s most advanced pricing and risk capabilities with a focus on the US market.
- We’re committed to building the next generation of sports betting products — sports-first, recreationally-focused, and designed to make betting more engaging, more intelligent, and more fun.
- We’re proud to be a high-performing, low-ego team where brilliant people work and people work to become brilliant.
- While we’re ambitious and delivery-driven, we take real pride in how we operate and the health of our independent culture, underpinned by trust and mutual respect.
Equal Opportunity
- Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
