BLIP

Principal Devops Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.

We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.

We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.

Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The Role

As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping and evolving our core platform capabilities. You’ll take the lead in designing, building, and scaling foundational infrastructure that enables product teams to deliver software that is secure, scalable, and reliable. A key part of your role will be delivering self-service, reusable platform capabilities that abstract complexity, promote best practices and ensures security and compliance to accelerate product development—covering areas such as data services, deployment workflows, networking, and observability.

While remaining hands-on, you’ll also provide technical leadership, define engineering standards, and influence architectural decisions. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure platform features align with evolving product requirements, performance expectations, and security standards. Beyond your immediate team, you’ll have a broad influence across the organization—shaping platform strategy, guiding cross-team engineering practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. In addition, you’ll mentor engineers and contribute directly to the design, implementation, and rollout of key platform components.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, building, and scaling core platform capabilities to support secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery across the organization.
• Developing self-service, reusable infrastructure components—such as data services, deployment workflows, and observability tools—that reduce friction for product teams.
• Staying hands-on with system architecture, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies.
• Providing technical leadership by setting standards, driving design decisions, and fostering engineering best practices.
• Collaborating closely with product, security, and SRE teams to align platform solutions with evolving business and technical needs.
• Mentoring engineers across the organization, guiding them through complex challenges and architectural trade-offs.
• Driving continuous improvement across platform systems, tools, and processes.
• Influencing platform strategy and cross-team engineering direction to ensure consistency, scalability, and long-term impact.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps roles, with a strong software development background.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Proven ability to build scalable, secure, and resilient platform components that support a wide range of product use cases.
• Strong architectural and systems thinking, with a track record of making sound technical decisions at scale.
• Experience designing and delivering internal platform capabilities such as compute, data services, CI/CD tooling, and observability frameworks.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a history of partnering effectively across engineering, product, and operational teams.
• Ability to mentor and influence engineers at all levels, and to lead by example through hands-on contribution.
• A passion for building developer-friendly platforms and a culture of engineering excellence.

A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack

• AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, GitHub Actions, Datadog and PagerDuty

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So ... are you in?

Equal opportunities

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.

We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.

Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to accommodations@blip.pt .

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.