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.

Overview

• Independently design and deliver automation and CI/CD improvements across services.
• We encourage the thoughtful use of Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to boost innovation and productivity while adhering to our security and compliance standards.
  
  

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

• 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)
  
  

Nice to Have

• 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)
  
  

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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.