DevOps Engineer

Candidates should take the time to read all the elements of this job advert carefully Please make your application promptly. Based in: City of London, Shoreditch Hybrid About Us We’re Amelco, a UK-based software provider at the forefront of the gaming and gambling industry across the US, UK & EMEA. We partner with major global Gaming Companies to build innovative, high-performance platforms that power sportsbooks, lotteries, casinos, virtual games, and financial trading. Our Vision is to shape the future of gaming and to transform experience from gaming operations into intelligent solutions that meet customer needs in the digital era and create value for all stakeholders in sustainable ways. We value teamwork, knowledge sharing and transparency with accountability. We believe quality, ability and determination are vital ingredients in delivering success at Amelco and that you will be able to instil your imprint with us. Role Overview We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong site reliability principles to join our Platform team. You’ll focus on maintaining and improving production reliability, automating operational tasks, and enhancing our observability stack. You’ll work closely with SREs, support engineers, release managers, and incident managers to ensure our systems meet SLIs, SLOs, and SLA targets. Key Responsibilities Maintain and optimise production environments in AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3). Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible. Enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting using the Grafana stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo). Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, andpost-incident reviews. Implement automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve recovery time. Contribute to the definition and tracking of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Collaborate with release and support teams to ensure smooth, reliable rollouts. Maintain and improve documentation for operational runbooks and platform processes. Required Skills & Experience Solid experience managing Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS) in production. Proficient with AWS services relevant to production workloads (EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM). Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible. Strong experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo). Understanding of SRE concepts (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning). Comfortable working in incident and problem management processes. Strong GitOps mindset for managing platform and configuration changes. Good communication and documentation skills. Qualifications (Desirable) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS). AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. Nice-to-Have Experience with Python scripting for automation and reliability tooling. Knowledge of Java and/or React application deployments in production. Prior experience in high-volume, high-availability environments.