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.
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