DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Malta, Europe)

We are looking for a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing technology team within the gaming, sweepstakes, and crypto space. This role is responsible for building, maintaining, securing, and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment environments across multiple high-availability platforms.

The ideal candidate is hands-on, proactive, and comfortable operating in fast-paced environments where uptime, automation, security, scalability, and reliability are critical. You will work closely with development, QA, security, product, and data teams to improve deployment velocity, platform stability, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable, secure, and high-availability AWS cloud infrastructure

Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployments

Implement infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

Manage Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and cloud-native tooling

Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure platform health and performance

Monitor system reliability, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and resolve performance bottlenecks

Support production environments across gaming, sweepstakes, crypto, and payment-related systems

Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, access controls, secrets management, and compliance standards

Collaborate closely with development and QA teams to improve deployment workflows and release reliability

Support disaster recovery, backup strategies, failover mechanisms, and business continuity planning

Assist with infrastructure scaling during high-traffic campaigns, launches, and peak activity periods

Support incident management and participate in on-call rotations where required

Maintain documentation for infrastructure architecture, operational procedures, and technical standards

Contribute to evolving DevOps standards, tooling, automation, and engineering culture

Technical Requirements

3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related roles

Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native infrastructure

Experience managing production environments with high uptime and scalability requirements

Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Github Actions, or CircleCI

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

Solid understanding of Linux systems administration

Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or similar languages

Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch

Strong understanding of networking, DNS, VPNs, load balancing, CDNs, firewalls, and cloud security practices

Experience with Git workflows and deployment automation

Familiarity with microservices and serverless architectures

Experience supporting distributed or multi-region systems is considered an asset

Exposure to gaming, iGaming, sweepstakes, fintech, payments, or crypto environments is highly preferred

Preferred Experience

Experience operating within regulated or high-risk environments

Exposure to blockchain infrastructure, wallets, or crypto-related services

Experience handling rapid scaling environments and high transaction volumes

Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar technologies

AWS, Kubernetes, or DevOps-related certifications are considered an asset

Soft Skills

Strong ownership mentality and problem-solving mindset

Comfortable working in fast-moving and evolving environments

Ability to prioritize effectively under pressure

Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Highly organized with strong attention to detail

Proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented approach

Additional Notes

This role description is not exhaustive and responsibilities may evolve in line with business requirements and company growth.

The successful candidate may be required to support occasional out-of-hours deployments, incident response, or critical infrastructure activities where necessary.