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Join us at Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK), where we're driven by the belief life needs play. We’re on a mission to deliver infinite ways to play using cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning to craft immersive experiences that connect, inspire and entertain millions of players worldwide.
From our start as a small mobile games company founded in Israel to our current position as a publicly traded company and industry leader, we continue to be a dominant force in interactive entertainment. With a diverse portfolio of award-winning, category-leading Casual and Social Casino-themed games, including nine of the top 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the US, we're setting the standard for excellence.
Our success story is co-authored by a dynamic team of storytellers, strategists, creators and data scientists who thrive on innovation. We are home of the best, advancing an inclusive culture that embraces our core values and reflects our agile DNA.
With a strong financial foundation, disciplined operations, unwavering player-focused approach and relentless can-do spirit, we're well-positioned for sustained growth. If you're ready to join the driving force behind the evolution of interactive entertainment, we invite you to come play with us.
Responsibilities:
- Own and grow monitoring & observability: Splunk, Prometheus / VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, AlertManager, integrations (e.g. PagerDuty); tune alerts, dashboards, and on-call signal quality.
- Operate Kubernetes platforms (e.g. SpectroCloud / Cloudstack): deploy workloads, routine changes, node/cluster hygiene, work with operators and GitOps (Flux, Helm/Kustomize).
- Help run stateful services in k8s with senior guidance: e.g. Kafka, MariaDB/Galera — incidents, runbooks, upgrades.
- Participate in migrations & cutovers (prep, sync, failover steps) as part of a larger team.
- Contribute to automation: Ansible playbooks, Bash/Python scripts, SSL/cert workflows where documented.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude, similar) to speed up investigation, scripting, IaC changes, and documentation — with human review and safe change practices.
- Support production: on-call rotation (with escalation paths), incidents, ChatOps, studio-facing tickets; document in Confluence; use Jira for work tracking.
- Collaborate with SRE, DI, RnD, and ServiceOPS teams on all technical and monitoring aspects.
Requirements:
- Strong tilt toward monitoring: hands-on with Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics and Grafana (Splunk will be a plus).
- Comfortable on Linux (Ubuntu LTS): shells, systemd, logs, networking basics (TCP/IP, DNS, ports, load balancing concepts).
- Kubernetes fundamentals: pods, Deployments, Services, resources/limits, reading Helm/Kustomize, willingness to deepen on statefulSets/operators.
- Exposure to at least one data/log stack: e.g. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch or Kafka or MariaDB — not all; eagerness to learn the rest.
- Logging: basic ELK/OpenSearch/Filebeat experience or equivalent lab project.
- Git + GitOps mindset: branches/PRs, Flux or similar CI/CD to clusters (can be mentored).
- Scripting: Bash for daily tasks; can read and small edits in Python.
- Comfort using AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Claude) for everyday work: exploring repos/configs, drafting changes, summarizing incidents — with judgment on correctness and security.
- Secrets & automation: Vault or similar concepts; Ansible familiarity helpful, not mandatory day one.
- Soft skills: clear written updates, calm troubleshooting with others; Confluence + Jira.
- Bonus: Splunk touch, Nginx/MaxScale, SpectroCloud/Cloudstack, game-studio production context.
Benefits:
- Annual company bonus
- Competitive salary & flexible working hours
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and office refreshments
- Private health insurance, dental coverage, and psychological counseling
- 20 paid vacation days and 5 sick days per year
- 6 long weekends and 1 day off for your birthday
- Gifts for special occasions (birthday, Easter, Christmas, Women’s and Men’s Day, weddings, childbirth, etc.)
- Technical library with the option to order books
- Access to our educational platform with courses, training programs, and certifications
- Career development through coaching and reviews
- Internal mobility & referral program
- Corporate celebrations, team-building events, and fun activities
- Personal care in the office (nails, eyebrows, and barber services)
- Modern offices (Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Dnipro) with organized shuttle buses to and from the office
Subject to applicable laws, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist our recruitment teams in the hiring process, including drafting job descriptions, communication, response to applications, assessments and tests, as further described in our Candidates Privacy Notice.
By applying to this job, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Candidates Privacy Notice, including with respect to the use of AI tools, and consent to the processing of your information as described therein.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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