Senior DevOps Engineer​/Site Reliability Engineer

Join our innovative Vancouver-based company as we reimagine the future of online poker through a revolutionary Poker-as-a-Service platform. Our mission is to help iGaming operators attract and retain customers through poker gameplay. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Dev Ops Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to take ownership of our production cloud infrastructure, ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, and highly available.

This role offers the opportunity to work closely with back-end engineers, security, and product leadership to build and operate the systems that power real-time poker gameplay ’ll inherit an existing production environment and elevate it through automation, observability, operational maturity, and reliability best practices.

• Own and evolve our production environment, building on existing infrastructure and processes to improve stability, scalability, and security.
• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) to support a real-time, highly available gaming platform.
• Operate and improve our Kubernetes/container platform, including upgrades, scaling, cluster reliability, and operational tooling.
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support safe, frequent deployments (rollback strategies, progressive delivery where appropriate).
• Implement and expand Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi, Helm, Git Ops workflows) to ensure reproducible, auditable environments.
• Establish strong observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards) and drive SLO/SLI practices to keep signal high and noise low.
• Lead incident response and post-incident learning: runbooks, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and preventative remediation.
• Drive performance and capacity planning, including load testing strategies, autoscaling policies, cost optimization, and tuning.
• Strengthen security posture: secrets management, least-privilege IAM, vulnerability management, network segmentation, and secure SDLC practices.
• Own and test backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans (RPO/RTO definition, rehearsal, automation).
• Mentor engineers on operational excellence and best practices; help raise the team’s production readiness and reliability culture.

• 6+ years of Dev Ops / SRE / Platform Engineering experience with hands-on production ownership.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), including networking and IAM.
• Strong experience running Kubernetes (or equivalent container orchestration) in production environments.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Pulumi), plus modern deployment tooling (Helm, Git Ops, etc.).
• Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and deployment strategies.
• Strong Linux fundamentals; proficiency scripting in Bash/Python/Go (or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot production issues across distributed systems (latency, scaling, networking, dependency failures).
• Experience implementing monitoring/alerting and operational practices (on-call readiness, postmortems, runbooks).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally and lead operational initiatives.

• Experience operating real-time / multiplayer / gaming systems.
• Experience with multi-region or high-availability architecture patterns.
• Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems (e.g., NATS, Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ).
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Hands-on experience with AWS (in addition to or beyond primary cloud experience).
• Experience working in compliance-heavy environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, regulated gaming).

• Be part of a fast-paced, creative environment with the chance to reimagine the future of online poker.
• Own the systems that keep real-time poker gameplay reliable, secure, and scalable—where your impact is immediate and measurable.
• Collaborate with a talented team building the next generation of poker experiences.
• Flexible work environment, with opportunities for personal and professional growth.