Senior Network Operations Engineer

About Playtech                             

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience. 

As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com

 

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices. 

Ready to level up your networking career? Join Playtech and Grow Across the Entire Networking Stack!

At Playtech, you’ll get the chance to work across every inch of modern networking - from load balancers and firewalls to orchestrators, cloud networking, automation, and large-scale distributed environments.

We're looking for a Senior Network Operations Engineer who wants to dive deep, grow fast, and make a visible impact on global infrastructure powering millions of users.

Your influential mission. You will...

• Keep the traffic flowing: Ensure the reliable operation of global network infrastructure so that services run smoothly and efficiently.
• Build and transform environments: Take part in new deployments, site expansions, migrations, upgrades, problem investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support, automate, and standardize: Improve traffic flow, routing, and related components with strong focus on automation, standard procedures, and driving needed changes.
• Experiment, improve, and build smarter: Submit and contribute to automation/orchestration tool enhancements that reduce manual work and increase reliability. Participate in R&D and infrastructure evolution projects, test new technologies, and provide feedback to the Network Development team.
• Be part of rotating 24/7 resilience - without sitting in front of a monitor: Join an on-call rotation where you are contacted only when needed. This is not a monitoring center role.

Components for success. You...

• Think like an engineer: You ask questions, dig into details, understand how things truly work, and care about quality and precision.
• Are a strong networking professional: The larger and more complex the environment you’ve worked with, the better. You have experience running and evolving large-scale, multi‑vendor network infrastructures.
• Bring hands-on know-how: Comfortable working with firewalls, load balancers, switches, and routers. 
• Stay calm under pressure: You can analyze, prioritize, and act confidently in dynamic environments.
• Believe in automation: You prefer scripting, automation, and orchestrators over repetitive manual work.
• Communicate effectively: Clear and professional English is essential to ensure mutual understanding and smooth collaboration. Communication is key.

You'll get extra points for...

• Experience with Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, Python or other scripting languages.
• Familiarity with Check Point, F5, Juniper, Cisco, and DDoS mitigation.

Thrive in a culture that values...

• Innovation: Work with modern tools and technologies to solve unique challenges.
• Growth: Learn from top specialists, develop your skills, and grow professionally.
• Well-being: Enjoy support for your professional and personal development.
• Community: Engage in team events, collaborate with supportive colleagues, and be part of a culture you can be proud of.

Why this role is exciting:

You won’t be boxed into a single specialization - you’ll work across the full networking spectrum:

• Routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls (Cisco, F5, Juniper, Check Point)

• Automation and orchestration tooling

• Virtualization and cloud networking (AWS, private cloud)

• Remote new site deployments, migrations, upgrades, and decommissions

• Investigations, troubleshooting, and reliability improvements

If you want to build, improve, standardize, automate, and innovate, this role gives you the playground.

Infrastructure Unit

We operate across 20+ countries, 34 data centers, 25,000 virtual machines, and 39,000 TB of storage - built on cutting-edge technologies and serving customers worldwide.

Network Operations Team

A highly skilled group ensuring seamless global network operations. We collaborate closely, solve complex challenges, experiment with new technologies, and continuously push the boundaries of modern networking.

Playtech is an Equal Opportunity Employer hence all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, or physical disability.