DevOps Engineer

Who we are:

Adaptiq is a technology hub specializing in building, scaling, and supporting R&D teams for high-end, fast-growing product companies in a wide range of industries.
 

About the Product:

Our client is a leading online gaming operator developing a next-generation transactional platform for user account management. This greenfield solution is being built for a highly regulated, high-volume environment and is expected to support millions of concurrent users.

The platform will handle financial transactions in real time while maintaining high availability, sub-second performance, strong data integrity, security, and complete auditability. A key technical challenge is ensuring consistent reliability and performance during major traffic surges and peak events.

The team is looking for strong technical expertise to help architect and build a scalable, secure, and resilient platform capable of meeting strict regulatory and compliance standards. Deep technical leadership will be essential to maintaining reliability, performance, and compliance as the platform scales.
 

About the Role:

As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will lead the development of the cloud infrastructure and delivery platform from the ground up. You will define the multi-account cloud foundation, networking architecture, security controls, Kubernetes approach, CI/CD ecosystem, and observability framework before production workloads are launched.

This position combines hands-on infrastructure-as-code development with platform-level strategy, production and incident readiness, and compliance-by-design principles. You will collaborate closely with engineering, security, and AI platform teams, establish and share operational best practices, and help ensure the platform remains secure, highly available, and performant at scale.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement a multi-account cloud foundation, including account structure, landing zones, VPCs, Transit Gateway, IAM policies, and cost governance.
• Build and operate a highly resilient container platform based on Amazon EKS, including service mesh configuration, autoscaling strategies, and multi-AZ or multi-region deployments.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar technologies, while enabling GitOps-based delivery with tools such as Argo CD.
• Build standardized, paved-road CI/CD pipelines that automate application build, testing, and deployment processes across multiple product teams.
• Implement a comprehensive observability stack covering metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch, and establish SLO and error budget practices.
• Own and define production readiness processes, including incident response, on-call rotation design, runbooks, and chaos/load testing for major events.
• Lead the migration of existing third-party platform components, including dual-running environments, data migration pipelines, and cutover planning.
• Integrate compliance requirements directly into infrastructure through automated audit trails, environment segregation, backup and disaster recovery strategies, and controls aligned with regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with AI platform engineers to provision and operate AI-assisted development infrastructure and incorporate AI tools into DevOps workflows.
• Mentor and support engineers across the organization on cloud-native architecture, operational excellence, and infrastructure best practices.
   

Required Competence and Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, including at least 3 years at Staff/Principal level with organization-wide impact.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS, including EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, IAM, and multi-account environments.
• Strong expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes, including day-2 operations, upgrades, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Proven experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines and developer platforms used across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience operating high-availability, high-throughput systems and managing significant traffic spikes.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash, along with the ability to review application code from an infrastructure integration perspective.
• Hands-on experience with backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies for critical systems.
• Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical decisions to both engineering teams and executives.
   

Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud security, secrets management solutions such as Vault, and CI/CD security scanning tools and practices, including SAST, DAST, and SCA.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI DSS standards.
• Previous experience in online gaming, sports betting, fintech, or other regulated, high-transaction environments.
• Experience migrating systems from third-party vendor platforms.
• Knowledge of event-streaming technologies such as Kafka/MSK and experience with large-scale database operations.
• Polish and/or Spanish language skills.
   

Why Us:

We provide 20 days of vacation leave per calendar year (plus official national holidays of a country you are based in).

We provide full accounting and legal support in all countries we operate.

We utilize a fully remote work model with a powerful workstation and co-working space in case you need it.