DevOps Engineer

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. 

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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 GenBet unit is looking for a DevOps Engineer with a curious mindset, excellent communication, and good technical troubleshooting skills.

Your influential mission. You will...

• Proactively participate 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.
• Be responsible for administration of our on-premise hosted Kubernetes clusters.

Components for success. You...

• Have 3+ years of relevant experience in a DevOps role.
• Are experienced in supporting production systems.
• Have worked with Docker and Kubernetes (K8S).
• Possess good knowledge of Python and Microservices.
• Have experience implementing software CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Codefresh, or similar.
• Are skilled in configuration management with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or similar.
• Have experience with monitoring and/or log aggregation systems like ELK, Graylog, Prometheus, Zabbix, PRTG, Grafana, and others.
• Are adept at troubleshooting.
• Demonstrate a great understanding of networking and Unix-based operating systems.
• Can work across multiple work streams and development projects in an agile environment.
• Can work independently with minimal supervision.
• Possess excellent communication, collaboration and teamwork skills.

You'll get extra points for...

• Previous experience using Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Git.
• Developing applications in Python.
• SQL, Oracle and/or Mongo knowledge.
• Using messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Experience in the Sports betting industry.

Thrive in a culture that values...

• A professional and fun team environment, where we offer you proper training and knowledge sharing.
• Your personal and professional growth.
• Variety - no day is the same.
• Initiative - taking and a confident approach at the workplace.
• Global scope and an inclusive working environment where you can engage with diverse teams and perspectives.
• Work-life balance & flexibility.

PLAYTECH SPORTS

Playtech Sports is a subsidiary of Playtech. Playtech Sports builds mobile and desktop applications for sports betting operators and has a proud history and a proven track record with the biggest players in the business. Our GenBet product provides operators with a robust and secure central customer management platform onto which any number of products can be added and managed. Sportsbook, Lottery, Pool Betting and Fixed-Odds Games modules allow the operator to tailor their online service whilst a comprehensive back office and reporting suite provides powerful tools for event and market management.

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.