Lead DevOps Engineer
Gambling.com
Gambling.com Group (Nasdaq: GAMB) is looking for talented individuals to join its diverse and growing team in Europe. Through a portfolio of brands -- including flagship website Gambling.com, as well as Bookies.com and the new Casinos.com -- Gambling.com Group helps online gamblers start their consumer journey with confidence by delivering best-in-class content featuring expert analysis, independent reviews, news, tips, odds comparisons and more.
The Group has positioned itself as one of Europe’s premier performance marketing companies and is one of the leaders in responsible player acquisition across the regulated, global online gambling industry. The Group has won nearly every award in the gambling affiliate industry for sports and casino, and is a two-time winner of the prestigious EGR Affiliate of the Year award. Europe remains a key market of focus for the Group as it continues its period of exciting growth this year. The Group has offices in Dublin, its EU headquarters, and Malta.
Join our dynamic and expanding team at Gambling.com Group (Nasdaq: GAMB) in Europe. As leaders in the online gambling industry, our portfolio of brands, including flagship website Gambling.com, alongside Bookies.com and Casinos.com, empowers online gamblers with trusted content, expert analysis, and comprehensive resources.
Founded in 2006, Gambling.com Group is renowned as a premier global performance marketing company in Europe, leading the way in responsible player acquisition across the regulated global online gambling sector.
As we continue our exciting period of growth in 2024, Europe remains a key focus area for us, as noted by the Financial Times in their annual FT1000 ranking as we’re recognized as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies! With offices in Dublin, serving as our EU headquarters, and presence in Malta and Serbia, we invite talented individuals to join us on our journey to redefine excellence in the online gambling industry.
We are looking to pivot our North American infrastructure operations towards a developer self-service capacity. This will enable our market-facing product development teams to embrace full autonomy to manage their products from end-to-end, including ideation, development, provisioning and deployment, to production runtime monitoring. The person in this role will help design and build that solution, including identification of the proper toolsets, engaging with other teams to capture technical requirements, prototyping use cases, soliciting developer input, and ultimately establish a fully functional Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation (IaaS) platform for our development teams.
Responsibilities:
The responsibilities of this role are two-fold:
- Drive the design and implementation of IaaS platform
- Lead the day-to-day activities of existing Devops business-as-usual (BAU) activities for our North American product development teams.
IaaS Platform
- Materially participate in design of Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to enable infrastructure self-service for market-facing product development teams.
- Directly lead the infrastructure / DevOps team to implement the IDP, and foster adoption across multiple product development teams.
- Engage with adjacent teams to capture technical and compliance requirements necessary to implement the IDP, including infrastructure standardization, audit requirements, cost management requirements, etc.
- Prototype developer use cases of the IDP to prove out proposed implementations, ensuring the IDP matches our operational needs
- Assist with planning adoption and expansion of IDP across development teams
BAU Activities
- Oversee day-to-day activities of DevOps team, including maintenance of infrastructure as code, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Provide strategic direction for infrastructure development and operations, aligning with organisational goals.
- Manage and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Monitor, support, and maintain infrastructure, applications, and user operations, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Develop and enforce security policies to safeguard systems against cybersecurity threats.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for data and software products.
- Advocate for and implement tools, processes, and methodologies to enhance the software development life cycle.
- Partner with engineering teams to provide enterprise-level architectural solutions based on industry best practices.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to continuously improve infrastructure and operational efficiency.
Requirements:
- Experience with Internal Developer Portals and developer self-service automation highly desired.
- Proven experience leading a DevOps team or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Expertise in managing web application infrastructure using PHP, Apache, Nginx, DNS, SSL certificates, CDNs, and deployment pipelines.
- Advanced experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
- Strong knowledge of EC2 configuration management using Ansible.
- Proficient in architecting scalable software solutions following best practices.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
- Development experience to guide teams in adhering to coding and deployment best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of ownership
- AWS certifications – strongly desired
Perks & Benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Comprehensive private Healthcare Insurance
- Flexible work environment and home office available
- Home office allowance
- Gym & Leisure Allowance
- All the hardware and software you need to be successful
- Regular company events and social outings, activities, Spot Awards and a Monthly Social Club
- Access to courses for Personal and Career Development
- Company Paid Volunteer Day