Senior DevOps Engineer – iGaming

VettedBench; United States; Remote; USD 6,900 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Work from home

Job summary

VettedBench is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design and manage scalable, secure, high‑availability cloud infrastructure for real‑money gaming. You will optimize CI/CD pipelines, containerized apps with Docker/Kubernetes, and implement IaC using Terraform/Ansible to support 24/7 live gaming platforms.

The ideal candidate has 8–12 years of DevOps/infrastructure experience, with proven iGaming and real‑money gaming experience. Remote work is available with international scope.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in DevOps / Infrastructure.
• Mandatory experience in iGaming and real‑money casino gaming platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Build, maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.
• Manage containerized apps with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible.
• Monitor performance, availability and resource utilization.
• Ensure security practices across cloud infra and pipelines.
• Collaborate with development, QA, backend and security teams.
• Troubleshoot production issues to minimize downtime.

Skills

DevOps / Infra experience

iGaming experience

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Linux administration

Monitoring observability

Networking & security basics

High availability / DR

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

Experience: 8–12 Years

Industry: iGaming / Online Casino / Real Money Gaming

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with 8–12 years of hands‑on experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure.

The ideal candidate must have strong prior experience in the iGaming industry, specifically working with real‑money casino games and online gaming platforms.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining robust DevOps infrastructure, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, optimizing cloud environments, and ensuring high availability, performance, security, and reliability of our gaming platforms.

This role requires someone who understands the infrastructure demands of real‑money gaming environments, including high transaction volumes, real‑time gaming operations, low-latency requirements, and 24/7 platform availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Monitor infrastructure, application performance, system availability, and resource utilization.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management systems.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and backup strategies.
• Optimize infrastructure costs, performance, scalability, and resource utilization.
• Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, networks, databases, and deployment pipelines.
• Work closely with development, QA, backend, and security teams to streamline deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure minimal downtime for live gaming platforms.
• Manage multi‑environment deployments, including development, staging, UAT, and production.
• Support infrastructure requirements for real‑money casino games and high‑traffic gaming platforms.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (AWS preferred).
• Hands‑on expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Strong Linux administration and shell scripting skills.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Good understanding of networking, load balancing, firewalls, DNS, VPNs, and CDN.
• Experience with database infrastructure, backup, replication, and performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
• Experience handling production infrastructure at scale with high availability requirements.

Mandatory Industry Experience

• 8–12 years of overall DevOps / Infrastructure experience.
• Mandatory experience in the iGaming industry.
• Must have worked on online casino platforms involving real‑money gaming.
• Experience supporting live casino games, slot games, crash games, or other real‑money casino gaming products.
• Understanding of the infrastructure requirements of real‑money gaming platforms, including uptime, scalability, security, transaction reliability, and performance.
• Experience managing production environments for platforms operating 24/7.

Good to Have

• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and distributed systems.
• Experience with high‑traffic, real‑time gaming applications.
• Understanding of payment gateway integrations and gaming wallet infrastructure.
• Familiarity with regulatory and security requirements applicable to real‑money gaming platforms.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a hands‑on DevOps professional who can take ownership of infrastructure, drive automation, proactively identify potential issues, and ensure our gaming platforms remain secure, stable, and scalable.

Important: Candidates without prior iGaming and real‑money casino gaming experience will not be considered.

Pay: ₹652,000.00 - ₹2,100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote