Summary
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Take technical ownership of a greenfield cloud and delivery platform designed for millions of users and demanding uptime requirements. You’ll build the AWS foundation, Kubernetes platform, networking, IAM, CI/CD, observability, and autoscaling architecture while establishing engineering standards and operating practices.
Highlights
Principal-level technical leadership opportunity to build a cloud platform from scratch for a high-scale, high-availability system. The role combines hands-on infrastructure engineering with architectural ownership, platform standards, observability, security, compliance, and cost governance.
Description
We are looking for Principal DevOps Engineer to design and build the AWS infrastructure and delivery platform the new gaming platform will run on.
Greenfield: define the cloud foundation — account structure, networking, Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, observability — before the first production workload lands, then scale it to sportsbook peak traffic for millions of players.
The platform must hold under live-betting spikes, strict uptime expectations for a money-moving system, and gaming-regulator audit and compliance requirements.
Hands-on technical leader: writes infrastructure code daily, sets platform standards, and is the technical authority on how software is built, shipped and operated.
What you will do:
Design the AWS foundation from scratch: multi-account architecture (AWS Organizations), landing zone, VPC and networking, IAM strategy, cost governanceBuild and operate the container platform — Amazon EKS, service mesh, autoscaling tuned for spiky sportsbook load, multi-AZ (and where justified multi-region) resilienceDefine everything as code: Terraform for all infrastructure, GitOps delivery (Argo CD or similar), paved-road CI/CD pipelines so product teams ship safely and oftenEstablish the observability stack — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch) — and drive an SLO-based reliability practice with error budgetsOwn production readiness: incident response, on-call design, runbooks, chaos/load testing ahead of major sporting events, blameless postmortemsBuild the infrastructure side of the migration off the current third-party platform: dual-running environments, data migration pipelines, cutover mechanicsEmbed compliance into the platform: audit trails, environment segregation, backup/DR, controls that satisfy gaming regulators by constructionPartner with the AI coding platform team: provision and operate the infrastructure behind AI-assisted development, and bring AI tooling into DevOps workflowsMentor engineers across teams on cloud-native and operational best practices; set organization-wide standards
Requirements:
Must have:
10+ years of DevOps / platform / infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years at staff/principal level with organization-wide influenceDeep hands-on AWS: EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53), IAM at scale, multi-account architectures (AWS certifications such as SA Professional / DevOps Professional are a plus)Expert-level infrastructure as code with TerraformStrong Kubernetes operational depth: day-2 operations, upgrades, capacity, costTrack record of building CI/CD and developer platforms engineering teams adopted willingly — golden paths, not gatekeepingObservability and SLO/error-budget practice (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)Experience operating high-availability, high-throughput production systems with real traffic spikes, with documented playbooks from real incidentsStrong scripting/programming (Python, Go or Bash) and comfort reading application codeExperience designing backup, disaster recovery and business continuity for systems where data loss is not an optionExcellent written and spoken English; communicates platform decisions clearly to engineers and executives
Nice to have:
Hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex) for infrastructure, pipelines and ops automation — a significant plusSecurity engineering: cloud security posture management, secrets management (e.g.
Vault), vulnerability management, SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD, ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / PCI DSSiGaming, sports betting, fintech or another regulated, high-transaction-volume domainMigration off a third-party vendor platformEvent-streaming infrastructure (Kafka/MSK) and database operations at scalePolish and/or Spanish
