DevOps Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are Playtech, market leaders in the gambling and financial trading industries.

Leaders in next generation technology and content; regulated markets and responsible gambling.

Pioneers of Omni-channel gambling offering seamless, anytime, anywhere gameplay; of the ultimate gaming experience; and the best-performing content.

Innovators in games design; software and services; and data-driven optimisation.

We deliver the complete solution and game changing results for the world’s biggest brands.

One-stop Shop for Gaming Operators.

Playtech is the world's largest online gaming software supplier traded on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, offering cutting-edge, value added solutions to the industry's leading operators. Since Playtech's inception in 1999, its approach has been centred on the continual development of best-of-breed gaming products and content, and its success built upon strong partnerships with our licensees.

Job Description

Our team is responsible for continuous integration, monitoring and support of our highly transactional real-time distributed sportsbook betting product. To satisfy different data policies across the sports betting industry and ensure site reliability and cost effectiveness the system is deployed on distributed self-hosted datacenters with customers based in Europe, South and North America.

As part of the DevOps team you will be working on a solution based on a k8s microservices architecture with more than 500+ virtual machines and 5000+ virtual CPU’s on production environments in total. We use combination of Jenkins, custom Python scripts and Ansible to automate the process. Our focus is system reliability and seamless continuous integration without affecting user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Pro-active participation in process improvement and process automation
• Participate in releases and deployment to various environments
• Maintain well-documented notes for post RCA
• Sustain the process of knowledge sharing with the related teams
• Identify potential problems and risks
• Participate in DevOps related projects
• Communication with B2B licensees and stakeholders
• Provide Out of Hours On Call support

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in dev ops role 
• Experience in supporting production systems
• Experience working with Docker and K8S 
• Good knowledge of Python, Microservices 
• Experience with implementing software CI/CD pipeline — Jenkins, Codefresh or similar
• Configuration management, Ansible, Puppet, Chief or similar
• Experience with monitoring and/or log aggregation systems — ELK, Graylog, Prometheus, Zabbix, PRTG and other
• Great understanding of networking and Nix based operating systems 
• Ability to work across multiple work streams and development projects in an agile environment 
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
• Excellent communication skills 
• Intermediate English at least

As a plus:

• Experience of using Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Git
• Experience of a developing applications in Python
• Experience of using SQL, Oracle, Mongo
• Experience of using messaging systems — RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Sports Betting terminology and experience

Additional Information

We offer:

· Possibility to cooperate with a product company
· Professional growth
· Educational possibilities
· Competitive compensation
· Fully-equipped perfect office space located in the city center (“Palats Sportu” metro station)
· Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist

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