Lead DevOps Engineer
PlayTech is looking for a proactive Lead DevOps Engineer with strong technical expertise and excellent communication skills. In this role, the successful candidate will lead the design, implementation, and scaling of cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on Kubernetes-based environments.
The Lead DevOps Engineer will drive CI/CD automation, improve system reliability and observability, and enforce best practices across infrastructure as code, monitoring, and incident management. As a team lead, the individual will guide DevOps engineers, optimise production systems, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Resolve most complex DevOps tasks.
- Lead the team of Product Operations engineers.
- Conduct a comprehensive audit of existing service-management processes and develop a clear plan for their improvement.
- Establish key operational performance indicators and create a clear plan to track, measure, and improve them.
- Provide immediate response for any alert.
- Liaise with SL1/SL3, 3rd parties and internal stakeholders.
- Provide regular reports to direct manager.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (required).
- 5+ years’ experience as a DevOps engineer or SRE engineer (required).
- 1+ years of leading/management experience (required).
- Fluent verbal and writing communication skills in English (required).
- Strong understanding of the ITIL framework (required).
- Hands-on experience working with production environments with zero tolerance for errors (required).
- Strong experience in Linux, Docker, configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet), CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins), Cloud services (AWS), and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Nomad) (required).
- Experience writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform (required).
- Experience with monitoring systems (Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios/Sensu) and logging solutions (Elastic Stack, Loki) (required).
- Ability to interact effectively with senior management, technical subject matter experts, and business stakeholders (required).
- Experience supporting web applications with microservices architecture, including Akka cluster management and monitoring (nice-to-have).
- Knowledge of NoSQL database support (MongoDB, Couchbase) and NGINX server management (nice-to-have).
- Programming skills in Python/Bash (nice-to-have).
- Experience working in a global, multilingual organisation (nice-to-have).
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation.
Playtech plc is one of the world's largest gambling technology companies, providing software, platforms and content to online and land-based operators. Founded in 1999 and registered in the Isle of Man, it supplies casino, live casino, sportsbook, bingo and poker products, along with its IMS player-management platform. The company also runs B2C operations, most notably the Snaitech business in Italy. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Playtech employs thousands of people across offices worldwide.