Principal DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to design and build the AWS infrastructure and delivery platform that our new gaming platform will run on. This is a greenfield opportunity: you will define the cloud foundation — account structure, networking, Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, and observability — before the first production workload lands, and then scale it to handle sportsbook peak traffic for millions of players.

The platform you build must hold up under demanding conditions: live betting spikes around major fixtures, strict uptime expectations for a money-

moving system, and the audit and compliance requirements of a regulated gaming business. You will be a hands-on technical leader: writing infrastructure code daily, setting platform standards, and acting as the technical authority on how software is built, shipped, and operated at Caliente

Interactive.

You will report to the VP of Engineering and work closely with the backend, security, and AI platform leads.

What You’ll Do

- Design the AWS foundation from scratch: multi-account architecture (AWS Organizations), landing zone, VPC and networking design, IAM strategy, and cost governance
- Build and operate the container platform — Amazon EKS, service mesh, autoscaling strategies tuned for spiky sportsbook load, and multi-AZ (and where justified, multi-region) resilience
- Define everything as code: Terraform (or equivalent) for all infrastructure, GitOps-based delivery (Argo CD or similar), and paved-road CI/CD pipelines that let product teams ship safely and often




- Establish the observability stack — metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch) — and drive an SLO-based reliability practice with error budgets
- Own production readiness: incident response process, on-call design, runbooks, chaos/load testing ahead of major sporting events, and blameless postmortems
- Build the infrastructure side of the migration off our current third-party platform: dual-running environments, data migration pipelines, and cutover mechanics
- Embed compliance into the platform: audit trails, environment segregation, backup/DR strategy, and controls that satisfy gaming regulators by construction
- Partner with the AI coding platform team to provision and operate the infrastructure behind AI-assisted development, and to bring AI tooling into DevOps workflows
- Mentor engineers across teams on cloud-native and operational best practices, and set the standards the whole organization builds on

What You’ll Bring

- 10+ years of DevOps / platform / infrastructure engineering experience, including 3+ years at staff/principal level with organization-wide influence
- Deep, hands-on AWS expertise: EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora,



networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53), IAM at scale, and multi-account architectures — AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) are a plus
- Expert-level infrastructure as code with Terraform, and strong Kubernetes operational depth (day-2 operations, upgrades, capacity, cost)
- A track record of building CI/CD and developer platforms that engineering teams adopted willingly — golden paths, not gatekeeping
- Experience operating high-availability, high-throughput production systems with real traffic spikes — and the scars and playbooks to prove it
- Strong scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, or Bash) and comfort reading application code
- Experience designing backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for systems where data loss is not an option
- Excellent written and spoken English; ability to communicate platform decisions clearly to engineers and executives

Nice to Have

- Security engineering experience: cloud security posture management, secrets management (e.g., Vault), vulnerability management, security scanning in CI/CD (SAST/DAST/SCA), and experience working toward standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
- Experience in iGaming, sports betting, fintech, or another regulated, high-transaction-volume domain
- Experience supporting a migration off a third-party vendor platform
- Familiarity with event-streaming infrastructure (Kafka/MSK) and database operations at scale

📌 Principal DevOps Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 Oktana
📍 Colombia