Engineering Manager (with DevOps background)

Help scale the infrastructure behind a real-time iGaming platform serving 150M+ players worldwide while leading our SRE and Platform Engineering teams. At Patrianna, we build a high-performance B2B platform for the global iGaming industry, enabling partners to launch and scale digital gaming products across multiple international markets. Our platform serves as the foundation for multiple gaming brands, providing the core systems that power gameplay, integrations, and platform capabilities across different markets. Our engineering culture is built around a few core principles: We focus on solving meaningful engineering problems and delivering reliable systems without unnecessary bureaucracy; Teams operate within defined responsibilities and leadership structures that ensure decisions are made and outcomes are delivered; We believe strong engineering leadership starts with technical credibility and ownership of outcomes. AI-Driven Engineering Culture We are actively building an AI-driven engineering organization with a clear and deliberate stance: artificial intelligence is a core part of how we build and deliver software — not an experiment, not a trend, and not an optional add-on. AI is embedded into our engineering workflows, from system design and prototyping to refactoring, testing, and code review. Strong engineering judgment, architectural ownership, and accountability remain essential—AI amplifies our engineers, it doesn’t replace responsibility for technical decisions. We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps function across two specialized engineering teams: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Platform Engineering . The Platform Engineering team works on larger strategic initiatives that evolve our infrastructure and engineering platform — improving scalability, automation, developer experience, deployment capabilities, infrastructure architecture, and operational efficiency. You will create the structure and engineering practices necessary for teams to deliver complex infrastructure initiatives predictably while maintaining the reliability of a rapidly growing production platform. We expect our DevOps Engineering Manager to have deep technical expertise and remain close to the technology. You should be capable of understanding infrastructure architecture in depth, challenging technical decisions, reviewing proposed solutions, troubleshooting complex production problems, and working hands-on with the platform when necessary. You will combine the technical depth of a senior DevOps/Platform engineer with strong engineering and operational management, delivery, and people leadership skills. Own the DevOps roadmap and delivery outcomes – establish clear roadmaps across SRE and Platform Engineering, translate priorities into concrete initiatives and commitments, and ensure teams deliver against realistic timelines; Drive predictable execution – establish effective planning and execution practices, track progress against commitments, identify delivery risks early, manage dependencies, and ensure clear ownership of initiatives; Lead SRE and Platform Engineering – provide leadership across both operational reliability and longer-term platform development, balancing immediate production needs with strategic infrastructure improvements; Own people management – manage and develop DevOps engineers, including performance reviews, career development, compensation and promotion input, hiring, team structure, and handling performance concerns when needed; Partner with engineering teams – work closely with Engineering Managers, Team Leads, and engineers across the organization to understand infrastructure needs, resolve systemic problems, and ensure the platform enables rather than blocks product delivery. Drive platform reliability – continuously improve availability, resilience, observability, incident response, capacity management, and operational readiness across the platform; Evolve the engineering platform – drive initiatives around Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience; Improve engineering effectiveness – identify bottlenecks, repetitive operational work, and inefficient processes, and drive automation and platform improvements that increase engineering productivity; Drive infrastructure efficiency – continuously evaluate infrastructure architecture, resource utilization, and cloud costs, identifying opportunities to improve performance and reliability while keeping the platform cost-efficient. Engineering leadership experience – proven experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams while balancing technical leadership, delivery ownership, and people management; Strong delivery ownership – ability to build realistic roadmaps, break complex technical initiatives into executable work, establish commitments and deadlines, identify risks, and drive initiatives through to completion; Deep hands-on DevOps expertise – extensive experience building and operating production infrastructure, with the technical depth expected from a Senior/Lead/Staff-level DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineer; Strong Google Cloud Platform experience – deep production experience with GCP, including GKE, Compute Engine, networking, IAM, DNS, load balancing, and cloud cost optimization; Deep Kubernetes expertise – strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, ingress, storage, autoscaling, security, cluster lifecycle, and production troubleshooting; CI/CD and GitOps expertise – strong experience designing and operating modern delivery platforms using technologies such as Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps; Strong production operations background – experience operating high-availability production environments, participating in on-call rotations, troubleshooting distributed systems, and leading incident response; Observability expertise – strong understanding of metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLOs, and production monitoring using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, or similar platforms; Experience leading both SRE and Platform Engineering teams; Experience operating high-load, real-time distributed platforms; Experience building internal developer platforms or developer self-service capabilities; Experience with PostgreSQL/AlloyDB and Redis; Experience driving cloud infrastructure cost optimization / FinOps initiatives; Previous experience as a Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer, or Infrastructure Architect. Google Cloud Platform; Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps; AlloyDB for PostgreSQL; You understand our infrastructure architecture, production environment, operational challenges, and the responsibilities of the SRE and Platform Engineering teams. SRE and Platform Engineering operate against clear commitments with predictable execution. Reliability and operational problems are systematically tracked and addressed, while strategic platform initiatives move forward according to the roadmap. The DevOps function operates as a high-performing engineering organization with strong technical ownership, predictable delivery, mature reliability practices, and a platform roadmap that measurably improves scalability, developer productivity, operational efficiency, and infrastructure reliability. You’ll have significant ownership over the infrastructure and engineering platform behind systems serving millions of players worldwide. This role allows you to shape both how our production platform operates today and how our engineering platform evolves for the future . You’ll lead highly technical engineers while remaining close enough to the technology to influence architecture, solve difficult engineering problems, and see the direct impact of your decisions. Full remote flexibility — work from wherever you do your best thinking;

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and bank holidays;
• Genuine, unlimited growth opportunities in a fast-scaling business;