Platform Engineer
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for operating and improving our production infrastructure while championing reliability engineering practices across the organisation. This role combines hands-on platform engineering with incident management, performance optimisation, and systems reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with development teams, security, and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure our services remain scalable, secure, and highly available.
- Operate, scale, and continuously improve our production Kubernetes clusters running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Build, manage, and evolve cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Maintain and optimise critical messaging and event-streaming infrastructure, including RabbitMQ and Kafka.
- Manage edge networking, security, and traffic routing through Cloudflare.
- Automate operational processes and improve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, fast, and reliable releases.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimise Java services, JVM performance, container resource allocation, and connection pooling.
- Maintain and troubleshoot observability and logging platforms such as Elasticsearch and Kibana.
- Lead real-time incident response, structured triage, and mitigation during production outages.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders during incidents.
- Design and execute load testing strategies to validate system resilience under peak traffic conditions.
- Conduct blameless postmortems, identify systemic risks, and implement long-term improvements to prevent recurring incidents.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus and Grafana, helping reduce alert fatigue and improve Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience running infrastructure on GCP or another major cloud provider
- Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform
- Experience managing message brokers and event-streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Experience managing production incidents, conducting load testing, and driving structured postmortems
- Strong Linux systems knowledge with excellent troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers
- Scripting and automation experience using Bash and/or Python
- Experience troubleshooting outages related to Kubernetes scaling, performance degradation, or network and edge misconfigurations
- Preferred Experience: Experience operating MySQL and ClickHouse environments, including high availability, replication, backups, failover, and capacity planning
- Preferred Experience: Experience working within high-traffic, high-concurrency environments such as iGaming, fintech, or SaaS
- Preferred Experience: Experience implementing and evolving SLO/SLI frameworks
- Private health insurance
- Wellness incentives, including a fitness allowance and mental well-being services
- Flexible national holidays: public holidays mean more time off, choose how and when to enjoy them!
- 2 weeks Work From Anywhere (10 days), increased to 4 weeks (20 days) after longer duration of employment within the Company: explore the world while working remotely
- Gourmet lunches and healthy snacks prepared by our in-house chef
- Variety of discounts from local vendors
- Access to some of the greatest tools and platforms for developing your professional skills and building success within your role
- A range of training courses, known as Casumo College, for continuous learning and growth
- Social events for building strong relationships with colleagues from all across the organisation
At Casumo, we don’t do “ordinary.” We launched in Sweden in 2012 to shake up the online casino world, and we’ve been colouring outside the lines ever since. Today, we’re live across regulated markets under licences from the MGA, Gibraltar, UK, Sweden, and Spain. We’re bold, but we’re also buttoned-up where it counts. Inside the Umoverse, you’ll find thousands of games, a live casino, a slick sportsbook, daily campaigns (we call them Umodays), live leaderboards (Umoboards), and an award-winning app built to make play fast, fun, and seamless. Behind it all? A team of 45+ nationalities spread across Malta, Gibraltar, North Macedonia, Croatia, Spain, and Serbia - curious minds who thrive on creativity and collaboration. Our vision? To create a trusted, responsible gaming environment that transforms everyday moments into lasting memories.