DevOps Engineer

Location:

Warsaw, PL, 00-807

Requisition ID: 18794

Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. We have a longstanding commitment to Responsible Gaming (RG) that is engrained within our core business and the products we offer to customers and players worldwide. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.

Responsibilities

Build and manage automation pipelines (build, test, deploy)

Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes

Work with developers to optimize build and release processes

Contribute to security hardening and secrets management

Mentor DevOps I engineers

Typical Tooling Stack

Languages & Scripting: Bash, Python

CI/CD: GitHub Actions,

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

IaC: Terraform, Ansible

Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK

Collaboration: GitHub, Jira

Ways of Working

Hybrid teams across multiple time zones with strong async communication

You build it, you run it: teams own reliability with support from Platform/ SRE

Blameless incident culture with data-driven post-incident reviews

Automation-first approach; manual work is a signal to improve the platform

Qualifications

Required Skills

Proficiency in system administration and scripting (Bash, Python)

Strong skills in CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance

Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, troubleshooting)

Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)

Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)

Working knowledge of networking (DNS, load balancing, VPNs, firewalls)

Can independently manage small-to-medium scale deployments

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Soft Skills

Clear, concise communication in English within distributed teams (B2/C1 level)

Growth mindset with a bias for automation, measurement, and continuous improvement

Pragmatic problem-solving and customer-centric thinking

Experience collaborating in Agile teams (Scrum/Kanban)

Value-Add / Nice-to-Have Skills

GitOps (Argo CD or Flux)

Event streaming (Kafka)

Secrets management (Vault, AWS KMS/Azure Key Vault)

Security best practices (OWASP Top 10, SLSA, SBOM/SCAs)

Success Profile

Career Progression

I → II: moves from guided tasks to independently delivering small features and automations

II → III: leads domain areas, scales systems, and raises engineering bar across teams

III → IV: sets strategy, influences architecture company-wide, and grows talent pipelines

Your Impact (30/60/90 Days)

30 days: assess current pipelines; identify 2–3 quick wins

60 days: deliver reliability improvements (alerting, dashboards) for a service

90 days: lead a small migration (e.g., Terraform module refactor)

This information reflects Brightstar Lottery’s good-faith estimate of compensation for this position at the time of publication. Actual compensation will be determined in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and internal compensation policies. Factors that we consider include, but are not limited to, role, career level, performance, skills, level of expertise, experience, location, market competitiveness, and internal equity. The estimated starting compensation range is 124,995 zł – 192,300 zł. The Company will comply with all local pay requirements and collective bargaining agreements, where applicable.

Other Benefits Offered

Paid time off

Health insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance

Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice

Variety of well-being programs

Retirement benefits

Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role

This position is governed by collective bargaining agreement, which regulates the main terms and conditions of employment, including minimum salary levels, classification, working hours, leave, and other employment rights.

Our hiring process is conducted in line with principles of pay transparency and equal pay. We do not request or rely on candidates’ salary history during the selection process.

All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.