DevOps Architect
- 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
Responsibilities:
· Ensure infrastructure and services design is highly available, scalable, fault tolerant and meet SLO
· Define operations requirements and guidelines for new services
· Implement zero downtime and canary deployment strategies for applications
· Review and design CI/CD pipelines
· Design and plan disaster recovery architecture
· Capacity planning and autoscaling
· Ensure services have good observability and operability: monitoring / logging / distributed transactions tracing
· Take an active part in decision making regarding further architecture development
· Continuously improve quality of service and internal culture
· Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, QA, teams, and DevOps teams
· Prepare solution documents with architecture and infrastructure diagrams and present to relevant stakeholders
Qualifications
Required skills:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 5+ years' experience as DevOps engineer, 2+ years of leading/management experience
• Hands-on experience of working with production with zero tolerance to any errors
• Strong experience with:
· Kubernetes and its ecosystem: helm, docker, argocd, istio, calico
· Infrastructure as a code tool: Terraform
· Linux (CentOS/Ubuntu) and CLI tools: bash, sed, awk, sysctl
· Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls, load balancers (nginx/f5)
· Security principles and best practices
· Configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt)
· CI/CD tools (Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
· Cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud
· Orchestration platforms: Kubernetes, Nomad
· NoSQL databases (Mongo, Couchbase) and message brokers
· Monitoring and logging systems: Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Splunk, Jaeger
Desirable:
• Hands on programming skills in Python/Go
• Experience with NoSQL database: Couchbase, MongoDB, DynamoDB
• Excellent oral and written skills with the ability to interact with senior management, technical subject matter experts, and business customers are all essential in this role
• Experience in management and delivery of complex integrations and infrastructure projects
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously
• Upper Intermediate English
• Accountable and executable, results oriented
Additional Information
We offer:
· Professional growth
· Educational possibilities
· Competitive compensation
· Fully-equipped perfect office space located in the city center (“Palats Sportu” metro station)/possibility to work remotely
· Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
· Possibility to cooperate with a product company
At Playtech diversity and inclusion is a priority for us and we are an equal opportunities company, all applications will be considered regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and religion.