Sportsbook - DevOps Team Lead

Our Sportsbook Engineering team is seeking a DevOps Team Lead.

The DevOps Lead manages and guides a team of DevOps Engineers focused on provisioning, automating, and governing infrastructure across all development, testing, and production environments. Working closely with the Platform & Cloud Architect, this leader ensures consistency, security, and adherence to non-functional requirements while enforcing best practices that minimize drift and maintain operational integrity throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, passionate about innovation, and committed to excellence. Acting as a mentor, coach, and leader, they inspire the DevOps team to continually improve their workflows, adopt cutting-edge automation tools, and champion a culture of reliability and scalability. Ultimately, the DevOps Lead promotes a cohesive, high-performing environment where infrastructure is managed with precision, agility, and unwavering quality.

• Team Leadership & Management
  • Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing DevOps team, ensuring the right mix of skills, continuous growth, and clear career development paths.
  • Establish and maintain efficient team processes, ensuring that daily routines, planning sessions, and reviews are well-defined and continuously optimized.
  • Conduct regular 1-on-1s, set performance objectives, provide timely feedback, and handle administrative tasks, including resource and vacation planning.
  • Foster open communication, resolve impediments, and serve as the primary point of contact for the team.
• Technical Guidance & Hands-On Involvement
  • Split time between leadership and technical work, remaining actively engaged in the DevOps lifecycle through coding, script reviews, POCs, and troubleshooting
  • .Oversee infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes to ensure reliability, scalability, and security.
  • Implement and enforce best practices for infrastructure design, non-functional requirements, and resiliency—ensuring systems are built with high availability and minimal single points of failure.
  • Promote cross-training and knowledge sharing within the team to avoid skill silos and maintain operational continuity.
• Collaboration & Coordination
  • Collaborate with architects and development teams to ensure timely, scalable, and high-quality delivery of infrastructure and environments, supporting rapid development cycles and evolving business needs.
  • Coordinate with network, security, operations, and other support teams to ensure on-time delivery and seamless integration of initiatives.
  • Serve as a point of contact for Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to provide updates on resource availability, development progress, and strategic execution.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
  • Ensure production environments operate smoothly, proactively mitigating incidents and performing root cause analyses when issues arise.
  • Maintain a prioritized technical debt backlog focused on NFRs, addressing gaps in tooling, processes, and infrastructure.
  • Continuously refine team standards—enforcing code reviews, monitoring adherence to best practices, and promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Betsson Group is one of the largest companies within the Global iGaming space and can trace our heritage as far back as the 1960’s. We’re Swedish and publicly listed too with our Operational HQ located on the Mediterranean Island of Malta.

We strive to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. As a market leader within iGaming we offer online gaming products across 12+ jurisdictions and 20+ brands.

You will be part of a passionate team, which is building an industry leading, scalable, multi-brand platform used by hundreds of thousands of our customers!

At Betsson Group we work with a Hybrid Work From Home (WFH) model, giving you the flexibility of working 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.

• Monthly Allowance for Lunch
• Private & Life Plan Insurance for you and your family
• Team Building Budget
• Annual Wellness Allowance
• Corporate Travel Insurance
• Events and initiatives both Local (Quarterly Meetings) and Global
• Professional Development Programs & Internal Career Opportunities
• Milestone Birthday

Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1900 strong, spread across 7 offices! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.

We offer numerous challenges where your skills will be put to good use! We encourage innovation, independence and celebrate success where you will be part of multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.

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