Senior Data DevOps Engineer

About Us

At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.

FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.

We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.

Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?

The Role

As we continue to evolve and scale our platform, we're seeking a Senior Data DevOps Engineer with a passion for Data Technologies to support and lead initiatives within our Data Teams. The ideal candidate brings deep, hands-on expertise in managing, optimizing, and automating cloud infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance across our entire product ecosystem.

This role requires leadership, initiative, and autonomy. The Senior DevOps Engineer should be able to design and deliver end-to-end solutions, guide best practices, and mentor junior team members, while driving a culture of continuous improvement. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential to collaborate effectively across interdisciplinary teams.

Success in this role also demands strategic thinking, adaptability, and the ability to lead solutions involving complex component integrations. The ideal candidate should be confident managing competing priorities and applying innovative problem-solving skills in a high-impact environment.

A solid understanding of data science concepts, processes, tools, and infrastructure is essential, along with extensive hands-on experience in AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership and leadership of the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring a stable and performant platform/process.
• Serve as a technical mentor for DevOps engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure, automation, and deployment strategies.
• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks, scaling challenges, and systemic issues.
• Effective communication with Operations, Development, and Data teams.
• Maintain and improve processes and documentation.
• Provide end-to-end solutions, from design to execution.
• Champion a DevOps culture and advocate best practices across teams.
• Provide support and guidance to engineering teams on tooling and infrastructure.
• Setup and evolve tools and infrastructure for scalability.
• Automate processes wherever feasible.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis.
• Support and act in line with company values, compliance, and GRC obligations.
• Ensure that you, and your team, adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations within your direct responsibility and control.
• Ensure any non-compliance incidents within your team are raised through the appropriate channels (Compliance Incidents Process) and that your team are informed of any reporting processes relevant to them.
• Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Ensure your team's completion of all mandatory compliance trainings within the set deadline.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.

Technical Skills Required

• Extensive experience with AWS services: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Lambda, EMR, Karpenter, Route53, IAM, etc.
• Strong experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Proficient in scripting and automation using Ansible, Python, Bash.
• Deep hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm).
• Familiar with Vault, Artifactory for secrets management and artifact delivery.
• Proficient with Git and Bitbucket for source control.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, especially Terraform.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
• Familiarity with tech like Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka.

Technical Skills Desired (Nice to Have)

• Experience with data environments: Airflow, EMR, SageMaker, Ray, TensorFlow, MLflow, Kubeflow, Dask, Flink, Flask, KServe.
• Familiarity with data lakes and warehouse solutions: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift.
• Exposure to PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect.
• Experience with OpenStack, Azure, GCP alongside AWS.
• Experience maintaining pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Artifactory, Vault.
• Knowledge of monitoring/APM tools: Kibana, CloudWatch, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Elastic.
• Experience maintaining configurations in distributed, multi-tenant environments.

Working Conditions

• Occasional out-of-hours conferencing or maintenance work.
• Supportive, inclusive workplace aligned with Kindred's Diversity & Inclusion values.
• Learning & Development opportunities tailored to your career growth.
• Agile environment with cutting-edge technology.
• Collaborative culture with highly motivated, knowledge-sharing colleagues.

Functional Skills

• Ability to prioritize and remain focused under competing demands.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong time management and organizational abilities.
• Collaborative mindset with a people-first focus.
• Proven track record of gaining cross-team cooperation and commitment.

Our Way Of Working

Our world is hybrid.

A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.

Application Process

We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.