Lead DevOps
Summary
Lead DevOps engineer defining and executing DevOps strategy for a sportsbook backend, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and cross-team collaboration to improve system reliability and deployment efficiency.
- Define and drive the DevOps strategy for the Sportsbook Back-End scope
- Ensure the robustness and efficiency of CI/CD pipelines
- Design and evolve build, test, and deployment pipelines
- Standardize practices and quality gates
- Automate recurring tasks to improve service quality and reduce manual operations
- Improve system observability through monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics
- Support management of major incidents and contribute to continuous improvement of platform stability
- Optimize rollback, traceability, and release hardening processes
- Drive the DevOps roadmap and coordinate dependencies with Engineering teams
- Promote best practices in DevOps, Cloud, and Run
- Provide technical leadership to DevOps engineers and contribute to their skills development
- Reduce friction between build, test, release, and run to improve overall delivery efficiency
- Collaborate closely with Back-End, QA, SRE/Ops, Security, Architecture, and Release Management teams
Requirements
- Master’s degree (Bac+5) in Computer Science or equivalent
- Fluent English required for daily collaboration with international teams
- Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering roles
- Strong mastery of CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and automation
- Significant experience with Cloud environments and distributed platforms
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, advanced troubleshooting, and production environment management
- Good understanding of application security concerns and deployment hardening
- Excellent knowledge of the software development lifecycle and associated operational risks
- Ability to arbitrate between technical standardization and product needs
- Experience in high-availability, critical environments is a plus
- Experience with international platforms and high-frequency deployments is a plus
- Awareness of performance and resilience challenges on high-load systems is a plus
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in defining and driving DevOps strategies, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing system observability. Proven ability to lead technical teams, automate processes, and ensure high-quality service delivery in complex environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- DevOps Strategy Development
- CI/CD Pipeline Optimization
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Environment Expertise
- Technical Leadership
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- CI/CD Practices
- Automation
- Containerization
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Advanced Troubleshooting
- Production Environment Management
- Application Security
- Deployment Hardening
- Software Development Lifecycle
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Arbitration
- Continuous Improvement
Certifications & Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Industry Keywords
- Platform Engineering
- Release Engineering
- High-Availability Environments
- International Platforms
- High-Frequency Deployments