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Senior DevOps Engineer

Playnetic


Job Location:

Budapest - Hungary

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 16 September 2026 (3 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 14 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Division: Technology

Location: Warsaw / Budapest / Sofia / Tbilisi - Remote / Hybrid - depending on location

Employment type: B2B/FTE - depending on location

Reports to: Lead DevOps Engineer

Why Playnetic

With a global mindset were committed to building engaging products and an inspiring workplace where teams can thrive.

Job Summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technical expert responsible for building operating and improving the companys CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure and production environments.

This role plays a critical part in reliability performance and operational excellence actively participating in on-call rotations and incident response.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines

  • Operate and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes

  • Implement and maintain observability tooling

  • Automate builds and deployments for backend and frontend services

  • Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (and exposure to Azure/GCP)

  • Configure and maintain networking and VPNs

  • Support cost optimization and resource efficiency

  • Ensure production reliability and performance

  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response

  • Contribute to SLAs SLOs and reliability improvements

First 3090 Days

Deliverables

  • Take ownership of selected CI/CD pipelines and services

  • Understand infrastructure networking and observability setup

  • Participate in on-call with support

  • Identify reliability and performance improvements

Success Metrics

  • Successful deployments without regressions

  • Effective participation in on-call and incident response

  • Growing autonomy across environments

312 Months

Deliverables

  • Improved deployment speed and stability

  • Enhanced monitoring and alert quality

  • Infrastructure and performance optimizations

  • Contributions to cost reduction initiatives

Success Metrics

  • Reduced incident frequency and MTTR

  • Improved system performance and availability

  • Consistent delivery of infrastructure improvements

Required Skills & Experience

  • 5 years of DevOps / Cloud Engineering experience

  • Strong hands-on experience (must haves) with AWS Kubernetes CI/CD Gitlab/Github/ Helm Terraform / Observability.

  • Solid understanding of observability and monitoring

  • Experience operating production systems

  • Comfortable participating in on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Java Redis PostgreSQL

  • Familiarity with frontend build pipelines (ReactJS PixiJS)

  • Exposure to SRE concepts (SLOs error budgets)

What we offer:

Real Impact & Greenfield Projects: We are small enough that your voice is heard and your contributions directly influence how we build. Youll have the unique opportunity to work on greenfield projects giving you the space to truly shine build from scratch and leave your architectural mark.

Autonomy & Modern Tech: We believe in giving our developers the creative autonomy to execute and innovate using a cutting-edge modern tech stack. There is absolutely no micromanagement herewe trust your expertise and give you the ownership to solve complex problems your way.

Supportive Leadership & Flat Hierarchy: Work within a collaborative professional environment with open communication and a flat hierarchy. Our teams are led by accessible engineering-focused managers who prioritize mentorship psychological safety and removing blockers so you can focus on building great software.

Fast-Track Growth: As we scale your career scales with us. Whether you are stepping into leadership or deepening your technical mastery we actively support your professional development training and career progression.

Competitive Compensation: We offer highly competitive salary packages and performance-based rewards designed to attract motivate and retain top engineering talent.

Balance & Culture: Beyond the code we provide comprehensive paid vacation and sick leave along with regular team events and company-sponsored activities to keep our teams connected creative and refreshed.

Ideal for: Professionals who welcome change love to build and want to leave their mark on a growing company.