Lead DevOps Engineer
Gambling.com Group is seeking an exceptional talent interested in the fast-paced, high-growth online gambling industry. The company operates a portfolio of renowned websites and brands. 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. 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.
- 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.
- 5-7 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer
- Minimum of 2 years experience leading a DevOps team or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Advanced experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
- Expertise in managing web application infrastructure using PHP, Apache, Nginx, DNS, SSL certificates, CDNs, and deployment pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar
- Proficient in architecting scalable software solutions following best practices.
- Development experience to guide teams in adhering to coding and deployment best practices.
- Experience with Internal Developer Portals and developer self-service automation -highly desired.
- Strong knowledge of EC2 configuration management using Ansible – strongly desired
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of ownership
- AWS certifications – strongly desired
- 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
Gambling.com Group is a multi-award-winning performance marketing company and a leading provider of digital marketing services active exclusively in the online gambling industry. The Group has a workforce of more than 300 and operates from offices in Ireland, the United States and Malta. Through its proprietary technology platform, the Group publishes a portfolio of premier branded websites, including Gambling.com and Bookies.com. Founded in 2006, the Group owns and operates more than 50 websites in seven languages across 15 national markets covering all aspects of the online gambling industry, including iGaming and sports betting, and the fantasy sports industry. Gambling.com Group is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker GAMB.
