DevOps Engineer

Company Description

About Playtech                                               

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B and B2C businesses. Both divisions leverage Playtech’s proprietary technology to deliver innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience. 

Playtech is the gaming industry's leading technology company delivering business intelligence-driven gaming software, services, content, and platform technology across the industry. 
Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com
 
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices. 

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech‘s GPAS (Gaming Platform as a Service) Team is looking for a resilient and proactive DevOps Engineer with excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will...

• Design and maintain DevOps solutions for application deployment, infrastructure management, disaster recovery, and more
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to enhance high availability, performance, and observability of the product
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure all systems meet the organization’s standards for security and reliability
• Debug and troubleshoot configuration-related issues

Qualifications

Components for success. You...

• Have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering
• Possess strong Linux and Networking skills
• Have experience with Docker containers and orchestration solutions such as Kubernetes and Nomad, as well as Kubernetes management systems like Rancher, Amazon EKS Anywhere, and Red Hat OpenShift
• Demonstrate solid experience in configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Ansible and Terraform
• Have knowledge and hands-on experience with cloud-native tools including ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, Calico, Cilium, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, Istio, Prometheus stack, Elastic Stack, Grafana Loki, Fluentd, and Fluent Bit
• Possess programming skills in Python and Bash
• Have an Upper-Intermediate level of English

You'll get extra points for...

• Experience with Couchbase, MongoDB, or another NoSQL database
• Familiarity with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP

Thrive in a culture that values...

• The opportunity to collaborate directly with a product company
• Continuous professional development and career growth
• Access to educational resources and learning opportunities
• Competitive and fair compensation
• A fully equipped, modern office in the heart of the city (near “Palats Sportu” metro station)
• A warm, respectful, and supportive environment for every team member

Additional Information

GPAS (Gaming Platform as a Service) Team 
This role is part of the GPAS team at Playtech which is instrumental for ensuring high availability and fault tolerance of services in production, setting up and managing monitoring systems, handling production problems and incidents, participating in release management, processing customer requests, and automating processes. Our team is comprised of DevOps and ProdOps engineers tasked with meeting service level objectives (SLOs), deploying services, managing configuration playbooks, and striving for rapid issue resolution. Our work ensures the robustness and reliability of the gaming platform, which hosts over 700 games and processes nearly a billion transactions daily.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.