Platform Core DevOps Engineer - Infra

Betsson Group; Town of Malta (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Betsson Group is expanding its Product Development teams and seeks a DevOps Engineer to fortify the Container Platform and Kafka infrastructure across environments.

You will work with Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS/RKE), Terraform IaC, and cloud services to deliver scalable, self-service platforms for developers while ensuring reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience setting up and administering Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS or Rancher RKE preferred).
• Proven ability to manage Kafka across geo-distributed deployments.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform and modular workflows.
• Strong AWS knowledge: EC2, ALBs, VPC, EKS.
• Experience building scalable distributed infrastructures and using version control.
• Familiarity with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack.
• Proficient scripting in Python or Bash; Linux administration.
• Understanding ITIL/DevOps best practices; able to work in fast-paced environments.
• Available for on-call support as part of duties.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on managing Container Platform and Kafka infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code pipelines and self-service tooling for developers.
• Improve platforms based on business needs and operational metrics.
• Troubleshoot performance, efficiency and scale issues across environments.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

Kafka infrastructure

Terraform

AWS cloud services

Prometheus/Grafana

Python/Bash scripting

Linux administration

DevOps/ITIL

On-call support

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS/RKE)

Kafka

Terraform

AWS

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Are you an ambitious DevOps Engineer eager to jump in a world of complex challenges to modernise web and globally distributed applications? We are hiring!

Product Development at Betsson Group

Our Product Development organisation is truly Global with cross functional teams spanning 6 Tech Hubs – Malta, Budapest, Stockholm, Tallinn, Kyiv and Athens. With nearly 600 strong professionals, the Product Development organisation is spear-headed by our CTO-CPO with all our talented Area Teams working together.

A taster of what you will be involved with

• Working with cutting edge technology enabling our Cloud Journey
• The Platform Core team is responsible for managing Infrastructure as Code for parts of our Core Platform Layer (Kubernetes Clusters, Message Broker backends, Infrastructure tooling), providing a distributed runtime platform that ensures optimal performance of our business web applications, APIs and backend services
• Building our Infrastructure Platforms as self-service to our developers and providing guidance and tooling for developers to self-manage their applications cross environments
• Continuously improve and develop our platforms based on business needs. Analyse, diagnose and solve issues of efficiency performance and scale collaborating cross functional with colleagues from different teams

Right now, we are looking to strengthen further the management of our Container Platform and Kafka Messaging Platform and looking for a DevOps engineer with strong knowledge and experience in Kubernetes administration and managing Kafka infrastructure.

You're good at

• Strong knowledge and experience in setting up and administering Kubernetes clusters, preferably with experience with AWS EKS and Rancher RKE.
• Strong knowledge and experience of managing Kafka infrastructure in a geo-distributed setup, administration, and configuration of such service.
• Managing Cloud Infrastructure via Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with a good understanding of terraform modules and workflows.
• Experience working with cloud providers, with AWS as preference, and strong knowledge with Cloud provider services such as EC2, ALBs, VPC, and EKS
• Experience in building scalable and distributed infrastructure
• Experience in using versioned source control to manage code changes
• Familiarity with the open-source monitoring stack of Prometheus/Grafana.
• Ability to write scripts in Python, Bash, Powershell or similar
• Experience in using and managing Linux distributions
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex technical issues and provide effective solutions in a timely manner.
• Knowledge of best practices in IT operations, such as ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) and DevOps principles.
• Ability to adapt to changing technologies and work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Required to be on an On-call support schedule.

Who We Are

Betsson Group is one of the largest companies within the Global iGaming space and can trace our heritage as far back as the 1960’s. We’re Swedish and publicly listed too with our Operational HQ located on the Mediterranean Island of Malta.

We strive to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. As a market leader within iGaming we offer online gaming products across 12+ jurisdictions and 20+ brands.

You will be part of a passionate team, which is building an industry leading, scalable, multi-brand platform used by hundreds of thousands of our customers!

What we Offer

Much like riding a roller-coaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1900 strong, spread across 7 offices! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.

We offer numerous challenges where your skills will be put to good use! We encourage innovation, independence and celebrate success where you will be part of multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.