Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: Sofia / Budapest (Hybrid)

Employment type: Full-time

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 (must haves) 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 & Greenfield Projects: We are small enough that your voice is heard, and your contributions directly influence how we build. You’ll have the unique opportunity to work on greenfield projects, giving you the space to truly shine, build from scratch, and leave your architectural mark.

Autonomy & Modern Tech: We believe in giving our developers the creative autonomy to execute and innovate using a cutting-edge, modern tech stack. There is absolutely no micromanagement here—we trust your expertise and give you the ownership to solve complex problems your way.

Supportive Leadership & Flat Hierarchy: Work within a collaborative, professional environment with open communication and a flat hierarchy. Our teams are led by accessible, engineering-focused managers who prioritize mentorship, psychological safety, and removing blockers so you can focus on building great software.

Fast-Track Growth: As we scale, your career scales with us. Whether you are stepping into leadership or deepening your technical mastery, we actively support your professional development, training, and career progression.

Competitive Compensation: We offer highly competitive salary packages and performance-based rewards designed to attract, motivate, and retain top engineering talent.

Balance & Culture: Beyond the code, we provide comprehensive paid vacation and sick leave, along with regular team events and company-sponsored activities to keep our teams connected, creative, and refreshed.

Ideal for: Professionals who welcome change, love to build, and want to leave their mark on a growing company.