Position: DevOps Engineer
Company: Opentag
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

OpenTag is an International company within the field of Sports Betting and Gaming.

Our mission is to create a great sports betting platform through empowered teams centralized around our product.

We are building a complete turnkey solution for iGaming and Sports Betting without legacy and the latest tools. We are cloud-native (GCP and AWS) and operational Infrastructure as Code in production, having code across Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes manifest defining our infrastructure.

The things that you do daily would look like this :
- Collaborating with our R&D leads, developers and testers to ensure development lifecycle across environments is correctly planned, deployed and maintain
- Extending existing Infrastructure as Code and codifying new components (Terraform is highly desirable)
- Ensuring that infrastructure passes the mark of High Availability and archiving Fault Tolerance and Fault Resistance level
- Maintaining our Continuous Integration (GitLab CI) and Continous Delivery Maintaining and extending Observability (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Jaeger) Supporting others with complex troubleshooting
- Innovating with new techniques and technologies
- Supporting infrastructure operations
- Sharing understanding of what is the infrastructure in the big picture Mentoring newcomers and supporting the onboarding process

Job requirements
- At least five years of experience in a DevOps role with a focus on Linux and OpenSource
- At least three years of working experience with Cloud (GCP, AWS or DigitalOcean); Cloud certifications are a warm welcome. In-depth understanding of Containers (Docker) and orchestration challenges (Kubernetes)
- Deep understanding of DevOps toolkit (like git and HashiCorp tools)
- Excellent troubleshooting skills in the Cloud across different layers
- Understanding of Cloud Security
- Experience in developing applications in at least one language (ideally Python or GoLang)
- Practical experience with messaging and streaming systems (Kafka)
- Strong understanding of Relational Databases (PostgreSQL)
- Knowledge of NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, ElasticSearch)
- Experience with CI/CD (GitLab CI)
- Practical experience working with Scrum
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Sense of pragmatism in solutions

The recruitment process includes an HR Interview, a Technical interview, a Delivery call, Offer, and an Onboarding Plan.

On your first day, you will be met by an HR Representative, who will introduce you to the company, and conduct a tour of the office.

Everything you need will be waiting for you (laptop, workplace, welcome package).

You will have the opportunity to meet colleagues during lunch or coffee break. We will do everything necessary to make you feel comfortable and support you during and after the adaptation period.

Your onboarding will continue with meeting the important stakeholders working with your team. In addition, you will have regular 1:1 meetings with your manager where you can receive and give feedback. Later on, you will get acquainted with our employee development programme.

Our routine at OpenTag

We’re pretty proud to be working here, and we hope you’d be too.

It’s essential that we really don’t like micromanagement.

Do your job. If you want help — come and ask for it.

No one will track your time or check you every 30 minutes to see how it’s going.

You don’t want to come to the office — that’s okay.

You can work from your villa, from the seaside or a cafe — we don’t care as long as you deliver what is promised. You want to come to the office — that’s okay too.

The office is always open, and we will be happy to have lunch together or a beer after work.

Health & Lifestyle

For employees that work in Kyiv and Sofia offices, we provide medical insurance for you and your kids, with full coverage, sports subscription, breakfasts and lunches in the office, and unlimited snacks and beverages.

At OpenTag, we have team events throughout the year — hiking, paintball battles, Kanu-kayaks, beer brewing and tasting, and so much more!

Compensation & Vacation policy

Employees working in Bulgaria will receive 25 days off per year, plus an additional day for your birthday.

People working in Ukraine are entitled to receive 20 business days of vacation with additional days off on their birthday and work anniversaries.

For Ukrainian employees, the salary is paid in euro to your PE bank account, and we provide tax support.