DevOps Engineer

Joy Studios; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership and independence

Growth opportunities

Transparent culture

Job summary

JOY Studios is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability practices. You will work hands-on within an SRE-guided framework, collaborating closely with the CTO and system architect to balance automation, governance, and security across partner deployments.

The role emphasizes high-ownership, scalable, cloud-native solutions in a regulated gaming context, with a focus on preventing outages and optimizing costs across regions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, Infrastructure, Platform, or SRE-adjacent roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of SRE concepts and incident response.
• Some experience with distributed systems or message brokers (NATS, Kafka).
• FinOps experience is a plus.
• Degree preferred but not required; experience matters.
• Action-oriented with cross-functional collaboration.
• Owner mindset: autonomous and proactive.

Responsibilities

• Support a rapidly increasing number of isolated deployments across partner integrations.
• Design scalable deployment pipelines for multi-tenant environments.
• Maintain high reliability and availability with failovers and rollback readiness.
• Balance automation, governance, and security in a regulated gaming environment.
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Implement SRE practices to reduce toil and improve observability.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems with follow-ups.
• Collaborate with leadership on platform improvements and cost awareness.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS

CI/CD

SRE concepts

Observability

Distributed systems

FinOps

Ownership

Communication

Education

CS/Engineering degree preferred

Science/Engineering background

Tools

Pulumi

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

NATS

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Loki

Job description

We are an agile gaming innovation group building a proprietary ecosystem of games and platform tools.

Operating within a larger global organization, we already manage a suite of titles that are processing tens of millions in real-money transactions. We tackle high-scale complexity by deploying isolated, cloud environments for each of our global partners. We are at the intersection of next-generation Provably Fair gaming, social gaming and live-ops tooling.

Our platform integrates with multiple platform operators and supports real-money gameplay using provably fair technology. Each partner integration is deployed as an isolated cloud environment, with its own instances of our backend services. Both the client and the backend will have per-partner customizations. As we scale integrations, the number of deployments and operational complexity grows significantly. We are building long-term foundations for reliability, security, and scalability.

Role Overview

We are looking for a dedicated Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability practices. This is a hands-on engineering role, guided by Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. The role focuses on supporting the agility of the team, automation, operational excellence, and proactive risk reduction, while working within the governance and compliance expectations of the gaming. You will work closely with the CTO and system architect and have high ownership over how DevOps and reliability are implemented as the company scales.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting a rapidly increasing number of isolated deployments, where each partner integration results
• in multiple backend services deployed independently.
• Designing deployment pipelines that scale with the number of partners, without copy-paste or fragile
• manual processes.
• Maintaining high reliability, high-availability systems with fail-overs, where failures and downtime can
• have significant business impact.
• Balancing automation, governance, and security in a regulated environment.

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Design, operate, and improve AWS-based infrastructure across multiple regions and environments.
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi with TypeScript).
• Apply SRE principles to reduce operational toil and enhance observability/alerting.
• Improve system resilience and failure isolation per partner environment.
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Build scalable, multi-tenant deployment workflows that support automated promotion, failover, and rollbacks.
• Support HA deployments for internal and partner facing tools and dashboards.
• Maintain blue-green deployments and improve rollback automation.
• Work within a peer-reviewed change process and long-term production approval requirements.

Observability & Incident Management

• Maintain and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Ensure alerts are actionable and aligned with real player impact.
• Design and formalize incident response processes.
• Lead and participate in blameless postmortems, with shared ownership of follow-ups.

Security, Compliance & Cost

• Support secure system design, secrets management, and access control.
• Enable and integrate security scanning and secure SDLC practices into CI/CD.
• Prepare systems for external security audits and compliance requirements.
• Take ownership of cloud cost awareness and optimization (FinOps is part of the role).
• Help establish shared responsibility for operational quality and promote reliability-aware system design.
• Collaborate with technical leadership on prioritization and long-term platform improvements.
• Contribute to long-term plans for scalability and operational robustness of core platform components.
• Cloud: AWS
• Compute: ECS, EC2, Fargate, Lambda (EKS experience is a plus)
• Infrastructure as Code: Pulumi (TypeScript)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Messaging: NATS
• Observability: Prometheus, CloudWatch, Grafana, Loki

Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, Platform, or SRE-adjacent roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding and application of SRE concepts, including: alerting strategy, incident response, reliability vs velocity trade-offs, automation to reduce operational toil.
• Some experience with distributed systems or message brokers (NATS, Kafka, etc).
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices a plus.
• Degree in sciences/ CS/engineering preferred but not required. We look for experience and passion.
• Action-Oriented: Focused on delivering results through effective cross-functional collaboration and driving projects to completion.
• An Owner: Able to manage complex systems independently, take full accountability, and engage the team proactively.
• A Clear Communicator: Skilled at documenting technical impacts, keeping teams aligned, and communicating changes before they happen.
• Decisive: Grounded in strong engineering judgment when balancing code refactoring against shipping velocity.

Why Join Us

• Ownership and Independence: We believe in trusting our team members and working through collaboration.
• Growth: We are a high-growth startup backed by an industry giant with significant resources to power growth.
• Culture: A creative, driven, and transparent environment where we value "getting stuff done" over red tape.