Senior DevOps Engineer

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer: Leading the design of CI/CD strategies and optimizing reliability, performance, and security across services with an accent on infrastructure automation, incident response, and cost optimization. Focus on mentoring engineers, driving systemic fixes, and championing best practices in a hybrid, data-driven environment.

Location: Hybrid in Warsaw, Poland

Company

Brightstar is a global leader in lottery, specializing in secure technology and comprehensive solutions for customers.

What you will do

• Lead CI/CD strategy design and infrastructure automation.
• Optimize service reliability, performance, and security across all services.
• Handle major incident response and root cause analysis.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning initiatives.
• Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers and champion best practices.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineering.
• Strong automation and scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go).
• Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and advanced Kubernetes knowledge (multi-cluster, scaling, upgrades).
• Track record of designing resilient, scalable, and secure systems, including in-depth knowledge of observability/monitoring and incident management.
• Proficiency in security hardening and compliance-minded engineering, familiar with practices like IAM, encryption, SOC2, PCI, HIPAA.
• Clear, concise communication in English (B2/C1 level).

Nice to have

• Experience with GitOps (Argo CD or Flux) and Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• Knowledge of event streaming (Kafka) and secrets management (Vault, AWS KMS/Azure Key Vault).
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and security best practices (OWASP Top 10, SLSA, SBOM/SCAs).

Culture & Benefits

• Work in hybrid teams with strong asynchronous communication.
• Embrace a "You build it, you run it" culture where teams own reliability with support from Platform/SRE.
• Participate in a blameless incident culture with data-driven post-incident reviews.
• Adopt an automation-first approach to continuously improve the platform.
• Commitment to sustaining a diverse, fair, and inclusive workforce.
• Equal opportunity employer.