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Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Tribe)

Playson
Full-time
Remote
Ukraine
Software Engineering & Technology

Founded in 2012, Playson is a leading iGaming supplier recognised worldwide. We provide our customers with a high-end micro-service-based platform as a service that aims to process billions of financial transactions per day. We provide a cross-regional setup and are chasing latency reduction down to zero. We highly invest in delivering the best game experience and smooth connection regardless of the internet coverage and bandwidth of the game clients.

We are currently seeking an experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic Platform Tribe.

What will you be doing:

  • Manage day-to-day alerts, system checks, and issue escalation as necessary.

  • Provide 24x7 on-call support for critical SaaS events.

  • Document issues and remediation steps.

  • Proactively create monitors within the EKS/K8s ecosystem.

  • Deploy to EKS/K8s cluster using Terraform and Helm/Flux.

  • Enhance infrastructure health by implementing checks and scripts to address known issues.

  • Maintain and develop deployment code.

  • Implement/integrate new technologies into our Cloud Infrastructure.

  • Collaborate with other teams to provide top-notch support and assistance.

  • Prioritize customer focus in planning deployments/updates, ensuring minimal impact.

  • Conduct RCA and take necessary corrective actions to prevent issue recurrence.

  • Assign alert-related actions to the appropriate team after investigation.

  • Handle support requests for environment-specific actions.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • Proficiency in Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, troubleshooting).

  • Experience with configuration management tools like FluxCD/ArgoCD.

  • Strong experience with issue processing (RCA, Postmortems).

  • Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD.

  • Experience with monitoring tools like DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, and logging solutions like Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) or AWS CloudWatch.

  • Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols.

  • Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, NodeJS, Go).

  • Proficiency in Git or other version control systems.

  • Familiarity with incident response and management tools like PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or VictorOps.

  • Ownership, proactiveness, persistence, and passion for maintaining a high-traffic online platform.

What you get in return:

  • Competitive Salary and annual performance/salary reviews

  • Realistic and transparent Bonus system (15-20%), paid quarterly

  • Unlimited paid vacation leave & paid sick leave

  • Flexible work schedule to accommodate your needs

  • 100% Remote

  • Financial Support for Life Events & Extended Parental Leave

  • Paid professional development courses and trainings

  • B2B contracts

The recruitment process includes the following steps:

1. HR Interview (30-45 min)

2. Meeting with a Product Owner (60 min)

3. Technical interview with live coding (90 min)

4. Final Interview with CTO & Software Architect (60 min)