Principal DevOps Engineer — Platform Infrastructure (AWS)

CommIT is hiring for a senior Principal DevOps Engineer to design and build the AWS infrastructure and delivery platform for a new gaming platform. The role focuses on creating a greenfield cloud foundation to support sportsbook peak traffic and ensures compliance with gaming regulator requirements.

• 10+ years of DevOps/platform/infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years at staff/principal level with organization-wide influence
• Deep hands-on AWS experience: EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, IAM at scale, multi-account architectures
• Expert infrastructure as code skills with Terraform
• Strong Kubernetes operational expertise: day-2 operations, upgrades, capacity, cost management
• Proven track record building CI/CD and developer platform engineering teams and golden paths
• Experience with observability and SLO/error-budget practices using Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch
• Experience operating high-availability, high-throughput production systems with documented incident playbooks
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash; comfortable reading application code
• Experience designing backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for critical systems
• Excellent written and spoken English communication

Nice to have:

• Hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex) for infrastructure and automation
• Security engineering knowledge: cloud security posture management, secrets management (Vault), vulnerability management, SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD, ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / PCI DSS
• Experience in iGaming, sports betting, fintech, or other regulated high-volume domains
• Experience migrating off third-party vendor platforms
• Experience with event-streaming infrastructure (Kafka/MSK) and large-scale database operations
• Knowledge of Polish and/or Spanish

• Design AWS foundation: multi-account architecture (AWS Organizations), landing zone, VPC, networking, IAM strategy, cost governance
• Build and operate container platform using Amazon EKS with service mesh, autoscaling, multi-AZ/multi-region resilience
• Define infrastructure as code with Terraform, implement GitOps delivery and paved-road CI/CD pipelines
• Establish observability stack using Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch; implement SLO-based reliability practices
• Own production readiness: incident response, on-call design, runbooks, chaos/load testing, and blameless postmortems
• Build infrastructure for migration off current third-party platform including dual-running environments and data migration pipelines
• Embed compliance into platform: audit trails, environment segregation, backup/DR, controls to satisfy gaming regulators
• Partner with AI coding platform team to provision and operate AI-assisted development infrastructure and integrate AI tooling into DevOps
• Mentor engineers on cloud-native and operational best practices; set organization-wide standards