Lead DevOps – F/H – CDI
At FDJ United, the company is reinventing the game. FDJ United is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. FDJ United sets new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for customers every day. FDJ United is looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ United is your playing field. Join FDJ United in shaping the future of gaming.
In the context of the modernisation of the Group's sports betting platform, FDJ United is looking for a Lead DevOps. This transformation aims to sustainably strengthen the functionality, performance, quality, delivery agility, and operational resilience of the sports betting platform. Initially designed to meet the challenges of the French market, this platform will also support the international ambitions of FDJ United.
Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will work within a modern, distributed product environment. You will collaborate closely with the Back-End, QA, SRE/Ops, Security, Architecture, and Release Management teams to ensure the operational excellence of the platform. Your objective: to structure and lead DevOps practices for the Sportsbook Back-End perimeter, ensuring the robustness of CI/CD pipelines, the automation of deployments, the quality of environments, and the reliability of operations.
- Define and lead the DevOps strategy for the Sportsbook Back-End perimeter, in alignment with product, technical, and operational goals.
- Guarantee the robustness and efficiency of CI/CD pipelines to improve the quality and speed of deliveries.
- Design and evolve build, test, and deployment pipelines, while standardising practices and quality gates.
- Automate recurring tasks to improve service quality and reduce manual operations.
- Improve system observability by strengthening monitoring, alerting, and diagnostic tools.
- Support the management of major incidents and contribute to the continuous improvement of platform stability.
- Optimise rollback, traceability, and release security processes.
- Lead the DevOps roadmap and coordinate dependencies with engineering teams.
- Promote DevOps, Cloud, and Run best practices within technical teams.
- Provide technical leadership to DevOps engineers and contribute to the development of their expertise.
- Contribute to the reduction of friction between build, test, release, and run processes to improve overall delivery efficiency.
- Master's degree (Bac+5) in Computer Science or equivalent (required).
- Fluent English is mandatory for daily work with international teams (required).
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering (required).
- Solid mastery of CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, and automation (required).
- Significant experience with Cloud environments and distributed platforms (required).
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, advanced troubleshooting, and production environment management (required).
- Good understanding of application security and deployment security (required).
- Excellent knowledge of the software lifecycle and associated operational risks (required).
- Ability to balance technical standardisation with product needs (required).
- Experience in critical, high-availability environments (nice-to-have).
- Experience with international platforms featuring a high frequency of deployments (nice-to-have).
- Sensitivity to performance and resilience issues in high-load systems (nice-to-have).
- Fixed salary based on experience, paid over 13 months
- Variable bonus
- Profit-sharing and incentive schemes (approximately 18%)
- Group savings plan
- Parental policy
- Health insurance (mutuelle)
- 100 days of remote work per year
- Restaurant card
- Training and professional development opportunities
FDJ United is one of Europe's largest gaming and betting groups, formed after French lottery operator La Française des Jeux (FDJ) acquired Kindred Group - the company behind Unibet - in 2024 and rebranded the enlarged group in 2025. Headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, it operates lottery, online sports betting, casino and poker across multiple European markets and Australia. Its portfolio includes well-known online brands such as Unibet, 32Red and Maria Casino, alongside FDJ's French lottery and retail network. The group is listed on the Euronext Paris exchange.