Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer

at Gaming Innovation Group

• Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Node.js, OpenShift, RabbitMQ, TCP/IP, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, St Julians, Malta

About the role

• DevOps Engineer responsible for the health, performance, and automation of gaming platform services. Focused on CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure services, and application monitoring.

Responsibilities

• You will serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of gaming platform services.
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application, and network.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company.
• Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems and contribute to their overall design.
• Manage timely resolution of all critical and/or complex problems meeting SLA requirements.
• Develop, configure, and optimize service and application monitoring and telemetry.
• Assist in the rollouts and deployment of new product features and installations.
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor applications and services in a large-scale environment.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.

Requirements

• You have a technology or business graduate degree, or equivalent experience and knowledge of IT governance and operations.
• Strong knowledge of current IT methodologies and systems technologies and standards.
• Actively contributes SRE/DevOps best practices.
• Passion to replace manual work with code to enable self-running systems.
• Strong communication, negotiation, conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to tackle a problem to completion.
• Desire and ability to wear many hats (developer, systems engineer, support specialist, tester, inventor, release engineer).
• Strong analytical and decision-making ability.
• A working knowledge of Go-Lang would be a strong plus.
• Experience of iGaming/internet games sectors is a plus.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience including but not limited to:
• Excellent ability to script.
• Proven successful track record of running multi-node/multi-tier web application architectures.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian Suite [Confluence/JIRA].
• Familiarity with Github and Github Actions.
• Experience with Persisted Key/Value store technologies such as ETCD.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools such as TeamCity & Jenkins.
• Experience with Continuous Deployment tools such as Octopus Deploy & Argo CD.
• Experience with Kubernetes package managers such as Helm and Helmfile.
• Experience with YAML templating solutions such as Kustomize.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and services such as Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with Configuration Management tools such as Ansible.
• Senior level experience supporting Linux and Windows systems.
• Senior level experience using Kubernetes and Kubernetes Orchestration OpenShift.
• Senior level experience with Message Streaming / Message Queueing tools such as RabbitMQ & Kafka.
• Senior level experience in monitoring, reporting and alerting using industry leading tools.
• Senior level experience in TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
• Senior level experience in maintaining long-lived APIs.

Benefits

• Great career development opportunities
• Hybrid working model
• International Health Insurance
• Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
• Birthday Day Off
• Me Time - 1 day off per year