DevOps Engineer (GPAS)

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 GPAS unit is looking for a talented and dedicated DevOps Engineer to become a part of the GPAS product team.  

Your influential mission. You will...

• Manage configuration and deployments for applications
• Create CI/CD pipelines
• Improve configuration management roles, playbooks, and charts
• Debug and troubleshoot configuration related issues
• Configure monitoring dashboards and alerts for services

Components for success. You...

• Understand the principles of IT systems and system architecture.
• Possess 3+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Demonstrate a strong Linux and networking skill set.
• Have experience with Docker containers and orchestration solutions (Kubernetes, EKS, Rancher, Nomad).
• Have solid experience in configuration management and IaC (Ansible, Helm, Terraform).
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools and processes: Git, Jenkins pipelines, Artifactory.
• Possess hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics.
• Demonstrate programming skills in Python and Bash.
• Have an intermediate level of English.

You'll get extra points for...

• Couchbase, MongoDB or another NoSQL database
• Experience with cloud providers: AWS
• F5, nginx, and AWS load balancers
• Istio service mesh and Calico CNI

Thrive in a culture that values...

• Empowerment, support, and mentoring.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities.
• A warm and friendly attitude towards every specialist.
• The opportunity to collaborate with a product-focused company.

GPAS (Gaming Platform as a Service) TEAM
Playtech’s exclusive distributed games delivery platform, hosts 700+ games. It’s a scalable, event-driven system written in Scala using the Pekko (formerly Akka) framework. Our storage setup includes Couchbase (hot storage) and AWS S3/DynamoDB (cold storage), enabling us to handle nearly a billion transactions daily. Our architecture supports various game types, and we follow Scrum methodology for timely feature delivery.

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.