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DevOps Engineer
full-time•Kyiv
About this role
Company Description
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 business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.
As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com
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. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.
Ready to level up your career?
Playtech‘s GPAS (Gaming Platform as a Service) Team is looking for a resilient and proactive DevOps Engineer with excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.
Please note that this is a military cover position.
Job Description
Your influential mission. You will...
- Ensure services' Service Level Objectives (SLO) meet their targets.
- Guarantee high availability and fault tolerance of services in production, including on-premises infrastructure.
- Handle production system monitoring, including alerting and dashboards.
- Install, release, and upgrade services to Staging and Production environments.
- Improve configuration management playbooks.
- Address production problems and incidents.
- Create automated tools and scripts for internal usage.
Qualifications
Components for success. You...
- Have 3+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, Site reliability engineering, and/or System engineering.
- Demonstrate a strong skill set in Linux and Networking.
- Have experience with Docker containers.
- Possess solid experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2 and S3.
- Show solid experience in configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Ansible, Helm, and Terraform.
- Have good troubleshooting and investigation skills.
- Possess knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools and processes, such as Git, Jenkins pipelines, ArgoCD, and Artifactory.
- Demonstrate programming skills in Bash or Python
- Experience with orchestration solutions like Kubernetes, EKS, Rancher, or Nomad.
- Have an intermediate level of English proficiency.
You'll get extra points for...
- Holding a university degree in technical fields such as Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related disciplines.
- Possessing certifications in technologies and tools like Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, monitoring solutions, Amazon Cloud, or networking (e.g., CCNA).
- Knowledge of Couchbase and NoSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience with ElasticStack, Grafana, Prometheus, Istio, and Calico.
- Experience with F5 and Nginx load balancers.
- Programming skills in Python.
Thrive in a culture that values...
- Complex environment with the opportunity to work with the most recent market-leading technologies.
- Initiative-taking and confident approach at the workplace.
- Collaborative and supportive culture.
- Global scope and inclusive working environment where you can engage with diverse teams and perspectives.
- Constant learning and development opportunities and professional growth programs.
- Active lifestyle and mental well-being, supported through sports classes, master classes, and monthly well-being activities.
Additional Information
GPAS (Gaming Platform as a Service) Team
This role is part of the GPAS team at Playtech which is instrumental for ensuring high availability and fault tolerance of services in production, setting up and managing monitoring systems, handling production problems and incidents, participating in release management, processing customer requests, and automating processes. Our team is comprised of DevOps and ProdOps engeneers tasked with meeting service level objectives (SLOs), deploying services, managing configuration playbooks, and striving for for rapid issue resolution. Our work ensures the robustness and reliability of the gaming platform, which hosts over 700 games and processes nearly a billion transactions daily.
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.
What you'll do
- The DevOps Engineer will ensure that services meet their Service Level Objectives and guarantee high availability and fault tolerance of production services. Responsibilities include monitoring production systems, handling incidents, and creating automated tools and scripts.
About Playtech
Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7900 employees in 20 countries
Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.
We are the pioneers of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution.
The company has won numerous awards including the prestigious Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award 2018 for its Age of the Gods games that includes slots, table games and live casino.
Alongside our own cutting-edge gaming studios and content we license some of the world's most popular brands from Hollywood studios including Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, Paramount, Fox, NBC Universal, MGM and many more.
Playtech Financials operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Our B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Our B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.
If you are an ambitious, creative thinker and would like to work for us we want to hear from you!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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