Senior DevOps Engineer

Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. We have a longstanding commitment to Responsible Gaming (RG) that is engrained within our core business and the products we offer to customers and players worldwide. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.

Overview

• Lead platform initiatives that improve reliability, security, and developer productivity.
• We encourage the thoughtful use of Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to boost innovation and productivity while adhering to our security and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of CI/CD strategies and infrastructure automation
• Optimize reliability, performance, and security across services
• Handle major incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning
• Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers and champion best practices

Tooling Stack

• Languages & Scripting: Bash, Python, Go
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• IaC: Terraform, Ansible
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK
• Security: Trivy, Snyk, HashiCorp Vault
• Collaboration: GitHub, Jira, Confluence

Qualifications

• Experience: 5–7 years in DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineering
• Strong automation and scripting skills
• Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Advanced Kubernetes knowledge (multi-cluster, scaling, upgrades)
• Track record designing resilient, scalable, and secure systems
• In-depth knowledge of observability/monitoring and incident management
• Proficiency in security hardening and compliance-minded engineering
• Familiar with security and compliance practices (IAM, encryption, SOC2, PCI, HIPAA as relevant)

Soft Skills

• Clear, concise communication in English within distributed teams (B2/C1 level)
• Growth mindset with a bias for automation, measurement, and continuous improvement
• Pragmatic problem-solving and customer-centric thinking
• Experience collaborating in Agile teams (Scrum/Kanban)

Value-Add / Nice-to-Have Skills

• GitOps (Argo CD or Flux)
• Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
• Event streaming (Kafka)
• Secrets management (Vault, AWS KMS/Azure Key Vault)
• FinOps practices and cost observability
• Security best practices (OWASP Top 10, SLSA, SBOM/SCAs)

Success Profile

Your Impact (30/60/90 Days):

• 30 days: map platform health and risk areas; propose an improvement plan
• 60 days: implement high-impact CI/CD or cost-optimization initiative
• 90 days: lead an RCA and drive systemic fixes across teams

Ways of Working:

• Hybrid teams across multiple time zones with strong async communication
• You build it, you run it: teams own reliability with support from Platform/ SRE
• Blameless incident culture with data-driven post-incident reviews
• Automation-first approach; manual work is a signal to improve the platform

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This information reflects Brightstar Lottery’s good-faith estimate of compensation for this position at the time of publication. Actual compensation will be determined in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and internal compensation policies. Factors that we consider include, but are not limited to, role, career level, performance, skills, level of expertise, experience, location, market competitiveness, and internal equity. The estimated starting compensation range is 161,559 zł – 248,552 zł. The Company will comply with all local pay requirements and collective bargaining agreements, where applicable.

Other Benefits Offered:

• Paid time off
• Health insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance
• Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
• Variety of well-being programs
• Retirement benefits
• Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role

This position is governed by collective bargaining agreement, which regulates the main terms and conditions of employment, including minimum salary levels, classification, working hours, leave, and other employment rights.

Our hiring process is conducted in line with principles of pay transparency and equal pay. We do not request or rely on candidates’ salary history during the selection process.

All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.