Inspired by the fastest and most resilient penguin species in nature, we're here to help our clients and players achieve more reach, high-quality traffic, and meaningful engagement. With over 17 years of experience, Gentoo Media is a leading affiliate in the online casino and sportsbook industry through our extensive portfolio of products and services, featuring our flagship websites AskGamblers, Time2Play, CasinoTopsOnline, WSN, Casinomeister, and our SaaS brand-protection tool Sitebee.

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The role

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for independently implementing CI/CD automation and operational improvements while enabling reliable delivery and platform scaling. Working with moderate independence, the core purpose is to design and maintain deployment pipelines, operate containerized services, and improve system resilience through automation and monitoring.

This role designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, deploys and operates containerized services, applies Infrastructure-as-Code practices, implements monitoring dashboards, improves system resilience and release predictability, and works closely with engineering teams on deployments.

What you'll be doing

CI/CD Delivery: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that drive continuous delivery, from automated image builds through to GitOps-based deployment. Improve pipeline automation and operational readiness within your team's scope.
Container & Orchestration Operations: Deploy and operate containerized services across a multi-cluster orchestration platform, working with core components such as ingress, certificate management, secrets management, and managed data services.
Infrastructure-as-Code: Apply Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration-management practices to manage cloud infrastructure across multiple providers, contributing to shared modules and following established patterns.
Observability: Implement and maintain monitoring dashboards, metrics, and alerting. Troubleshoot issues using metrics, logs, and traces.
System Resilience: Improve release predictability and resilience through automation, runbooks, backups, and load testing.
Kubernetes Architecture: Architecting and operating Kubernetes workloads with expertise in cloud-native patterns.

Who we're looking for

Solid hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containers, and orchestration
Working experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management
Comfort with monitoring tooling and log/metric troubleshooting
Scripting and automation skills
Ability to execute independently within a defined scope

Experience and Skills:

Typically 2–5 years of professional DevOps or cloud operations experience.
Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (multi-cluster), and containerisation best practices (a must)
Deployment tooling: Helm charts and Kustomize for templating and environment overlays
GitOps & CI/CD: GitLab CI pipelines and ArgoCD-based continuous delivery
Cloud platforms: Compute, networking, managed databases, object storage
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager dashboards, metrics, and alerting; log/trace troubleshooting
Secrets management: working with Vault, External Secrets, and KMS-backed secrets
Edge & networking: Cloudflare DNS, CDN, and WAF basics
Scripting & automation: Bash and Python
Reliability practices: backups, runbooks, and load testing (k6)
Microservices: understanding of microservice architectures and their deployment/operation (a must)
Web hosting: solid knowledge of web hosting fundamentals - web servers, DNS, SSL/TLS, and PHP/CMS hosting (a must)

What we're offering

At Gentoo Media, we’re redefining affiliate marketing in iGaming - and we know that great work starts with great people. That’s why we’re committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment.

Here’s what you can look forward to as part of the team in Serbia:

Daily office lunches with varied menus to suit all dietary preferences
25 days of vacation to rest and recharge
Birthday Leave - a day off to celebrate your special day
“Me Time” Day - a day dedicated to your wellbeing
100% paid maternity leave
Career progression pathways and ongoing support
Annual €400 wellbeing benefit
Monthly €35 home office allowance
Flexible morning start - begin your day anytime between 8:00 and 9:30 AM
Private health insurance - including dental and physical therapy
Hybrid work model - flexibility to split time between home and office
Anniversary rewards at 3, 5, and 10 years
Team building budget
A vibrant culture with regular events, social gatherings, and team celebrations

Get more out of Gentoo Media: https://www.gentoomedia.com/

At Gentoo Media, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We truly believe that diversity makes us stronger and more innovative, driving us forward as we make our mark on the world. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, or any other characteristic protected under EU and local laws. Our recruitment process is fair, unbiased, and based solely on skills and business needs, ensuring equal opportunities for all. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process, just let us know! We’ll be happy to support you. Join our team and be part of something unique while being your true self 🐧

DevOps Engineer

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