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Junior DevOps Engineer (Internal)

Game Lounge
Full-time
Remote friendly (St. Julian's, Malta)
Malta
DevOps, Cloud & IT Ops

As this role is opening up internally for a Junior DevOps Engineer, you are already familiar with the company, projects, and teams you be working with.  You have experience or a willingness to learn and work with Terraform, Octopus Deploy, AWS, Fargate and CodeStar along with tools such as GitHub, CloudFlare, Pingdom and more.  You will report to the Senior DevOps Engineer ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of our technical infrastructure, ensure day-to-day tasks are handled, with a focus on automation, monitoring, and proactive problem-solving.


What you’ll be doing:  

  • Respond to and work on, ad-hoc tasks from stakeholders to ensure smooth functioning of systems.
  • Assist and collaborate within the DevOps team, on tasks and projects to ensure best practices, knowledge sharing and growth.
  • Manage pipelines for development teams using Octopus Deploy, including orchestration of infrastructure while keeping a DevOps as a service automation mentality.
  • Configure and Manage Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including AWS Provider knowledge and CI/CD pipeline to streamline deployments.
  • Develop and maintain scripts in Bash/Python for use in Octopus Deploy and our in-house tools.
  • Manage our AWS platform (Faregate, RDS, CodeBuild/CodePipeline).
  • Manage our GCP platform for our internal product platform.
  • Utilize Monitoring tools for website availability (uptime) and latency monitoring, including managing and creating alerts to ensure a standard in Uptime SLAs.
  • Implement and manage Cloudflare for DNS, caching, firewall/page rules, Cloudflare Workers, security features such as Zero Trust and bot protection.
  • Manage source code using GitHub, including creation of repos, access management, source version control, and PR ownership.
  • Utilize MySQL for WordPress data backend, including running queries, backups, and RDS optimizations.
  • Ensure robust server security across diverse hosting environments, protecting company assets and mitigating risks.
  • Collaborate with the SEO Team and refine SEO strategies for domains and sites, minimizing footprint and maximizing online visibility.
  • Implementing and refining related asset ownership and service usage to optimise company costs.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to support business-critical systems and services.


The ideal candidate should have: 

  • Strong understanding of Technical Infrastructure, DevOps practices, and System Integration.
  • Good knowledge of IaC, CI/CD, and configuration management and orchestration tools.
  • Knowledge of Containerization principles, including Docker.
  • Good knowledge of domain management, DNS, SSL certificates, and related digital asset security.
  • Good attention to detail.
  • The ability to collaborate with multiple departments, teams and stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication, ownership, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to handle complex technical challenges and make informed decisions.
  • Strong emphasis on Documentation including Documentation via code and runbooks.
  • Fluent in English.
  • Experience in an iGaming, SEO or digital marketing environment is an asset.
  • Knowledge on WordPress, including WP Admin management, themes/plugins, and troubleshooting.
  • Demonstrated eagerness to learn, adapt, and take on new challenges, along with an enthusiasm for continuous improvement in cloud technologies and platform management.

 

 Deadline for applications is the 14th November 2025. 

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