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.

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

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

We offer:

· 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
· 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.