Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: Poland / Hungary / Bulgaria - Remote / Hybrid (depending on location)

Employment type: B2B / FTE (depending on location)

Reports to: Lead DevOps Engineer

Why Playnetic?

Playnetic is an innovative and fast-growing player in the iGaming industry. We create cutting-edge casino games and technology that entertain millions of players worldwide, combining creativity, quality, and innovation at every step. Our gaming content is built around our core values: quality gaming, dedicated customer service, and reliable delivery to our partners.

With a global mindset, we’re committed to building engaging products and an inspiring workplace where teams can thrive.

Job Summary The Senior DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technical expert responsible for building, operating, and improving the company’s CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and production environments.

This role plays a critical part in reliability, performance, and operational excellence, actively participating in on-call rotations and incident response.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Operate and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes
• Implement and maintain observability tooling
• Automate builds and deployments for backend and frontend services
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (and exposure to Azure/GCP)
• Configure and maintain networking and VPNs
• Support cost optimization and resource efficiency
• Ensure production reliability and performance
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
• Contribute to SLAs, SLOs, and reliability improvements

First 30–90 Days

Deliverables

• Take ownership of selected CI/CD pipelines and services
• Understand infrastructure, networking, and observability setup
• Participate in on-call with support
• Identify reliability and performance improvements

Success Metrics

• Successful deployments without regressions
• Effective participation in on-call and incident response
• Growing autonomy across environments

3–12 Months

Deliverables

• Improved deployment speed and stability
• Enhanced monitoring and alert quality
• Infrastructure and performance optimizations
• Contributions to cost reduction initiatives

Success Metrics

• Reduced incident frequency and MTTR
• Improved system performance and availability
• Consistent delivery of infrastructure improvements

Required Skills & Experience

• 5 years of DevOps / Cloud Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Gitlab/Github/ Helm, Terraform / Observability.
• Solid understanding of observability and monitoring
• Experience operating production systems
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Redis, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with frontend build pipelines (ReactJS, PixiJS)
• Exposure to SRE concepts (SLOs, error budgets)

What we offer:

• Real Impact: We’re small enough that your voice is heard — your contributions directly shape how we build, and you’ll have real opportunities to make your mark.
• Autonomy & Ownership: We trust your expertise and give you the ownership to do your best work your way, with no micromanagement.
• Supportive Leadership & Flat Hierarchy: A collaborative, open environment led by accessible managers who prioritize mentorship, psychological safety, and removing blockers.
• Fast-Track Growth: As we scale, your career scales with us — we actively support professional development, training, and progression.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive salary packages and performance-based rewards designed to attract, motivate, and retain top talent.