DevOps Engineer

At Machete, we’re a fast-growing company operating within the online gaming and digital entertainment industry. Driven by innovation, creativity, and operational excellence, we’re focused on delivering safe, compliant, and engaging gaming experiences to players across multiple jurisdictions. As we continue to scale, we’re expanding our creative team to help shape and strengthen our brand across digital platforms.

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll run the DevOps operations for a team of around 20 software engineers who manage around 10 different projects. You'll also handle infrastructure work, ensuring smooth deployments, reliable systems, and efficient CI/CD pipelines. Working closely with our senior team, you'll gain valuable experience while making a tangible impact on our engineering operations.

## Tasks

• Run DevOps operations for a team of approximately 20 software engineers across around 10 different projects
• Manage and optimise GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners, environments, registry and artifact management
• Handle AWS infrastructure provisioning, maintenance, and scaling
• Implement and maintain containerised applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Design and execute multi-stage release pipelines with appropriate deployment strategies and rollback procedures
• Manage secrets and sensitive configuration across environments
• Support the software development lifecycle through automation and tooling improvements

## Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in a DevOps or infrastructure role
• Strong knowledge of Git and branching strategies, merge workflows, and versioning
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners, environments, registry and artifact management
• Experience with Jira integration including GitLab-Jira linking, smart commits, and automation between the two tools
• Proven ability to design multi-stage release pipelines with deployment strategies, rollback mechanisms, and secrets management
• Solid understanding of AWS infrastructure including core services, networking, security, infrastructure as code, and scaling
• Experience with containers and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm

**Nice to Have**

• Experience with monitoring and observability including logging, alerting, and dashboards
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices with security scanning integrated into pipelines
• Strong documentation skills, incident management experience, and familiarity with on-call practices

## Benefits

• A competitive and attractive salary
• Private health insurance (after probation)
• Annual wellbeing allowance to support your physical and mental health
• Regular social events to foster strong team connections
• Daily lunch allowance when working from the office
• Birthday Celebration Voucher