Senior IT Specialist - Regional IT Services, Business and Infrastructure Services

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description
HPE Morpheus Enterprise is a unified platform designed to simplify the consumption of hybrid clouds, container clusters, and infrastructure automation tools. It serves as the orchestration and automation foundation for the HPE Hybrid Cloud Portfolio.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of technology experts, dedicated to supporting our core cloud management platform, expanding our growing list of integrations, developing automation and custom plugins, and assisting customers in maximising the value of HPE Morpheus Software.

Responsibilities

• Multi-Cloud Engineering: Drive the engineering of highly available multi-cloud architectures, focusing on complex hybrid and multi-cloud solutions that bridge on-premises KVM stacks with public cloud providers.
• DevOps & Automation Leadership: Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment frameworks to enhance product build-outs and engineering velocity.
• Advanced Tier-4 Escalations: Act as the ultimate technical authority for critical issues involving Morpheus/VME and the HVM (Ubuntu 24.04 KVM) hypervisor stack.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the development of reusable automation assets using Ansible and Terraform to manage infrastructure across diverse cloud environments.
• Targeted IT Ops & QA Support: Assist in the maintenance of internal build and QA environments as needed, ensuring stability for the development team without primary daily management responsibility.
• Technical Governance: Author and maintain architectural documentation, playbooks, and technical standards to ensure alignment with cloud-native best practices.
• Knowledge Leadership: Mentor junior engineers in DevOps methodologies and represent the engineering team in high-level technical forums.

Education And Experience Required

• Experience: 5–7 years of technical engineering experience with a strong focus on cloud architecture and automation.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; or 5+ years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.

Knowledge And Skills

• DevOps Proficiency: Critical expertise in DevOps practices, including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), automated testing, and release management.
• Hypervisor Expertise: Subject matter mastery of KVM, including Ubuntu 24.04 LTS administration
• A deep familiarity with multi-cloud management, automation ,and orchestration tools such as Morpheus Cloud Management.
• Multi-Cloud Networking & Ops: Comprehensive understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid networking topologies.
• High-Availability Stacks: Hands-on engineering experience with Ceph, gfs2, Pacemaker, and Corosync for resilient enterprise deployments.
• Automation Tooling: Expert-level scripting in Python, Bash, Terraform and Ansible for end-to-end infrastructure orchestration.
• Strategic Communication: Ability to articulate complex multi-cloud strategies to senior leadership and provide clear, actionable technical guidance to peers.

What We Can Offer You
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Let's Stay Connected
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#hybridcloud, #Morpheus

Job
Services

Job Level
TCP_04

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.
HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

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Make an amazing climb in your career in an international team of experts. Our company provides technological services for the whole Schwarz group of more than 30 countries in Europe and the US. Our vision is to be the leading ecosystem for a better life. We built the European sovereign cloud STACKIT. With XM Cyber we set new standards in differing cyber crimes. We run AI better than anyone. With us you will find a variety of opportunities to grow and do your best at your calling – IT. We exist to improve life with our products and services - for today's generation and future generations. We act future proof!

The impact you will create:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools, incorporating automated testing, static code analysis with SonarQube, and code quality checks to ensure maintainability and reliability.- Build and manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate deployments with Kubernetes for scalable, resilient infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain job orchestration and workflow automation in Databricks.
• Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to track application performance, system health, and security metrics.
• Ensure security best practices and compliance requirements (including GDPR) are embedded throughout the development lifecycle, focusing on secure deployments, secrets management, and access control.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), optimizing for performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to promote DevOps culture, share technical expertise, and drive adoption of automation and best practices.

Experience and skills you will need:

• Demonstrated ability in stakeholder communication and management
• Good understanding of related data disciplines (e.g. data engineering, analytics)
• Ability to understand, analyze and translate business requirements into data-driven solutions
• Enthusiasm for collaboration, knowledge sharing and joint learning
• Very good English skills - German is a plus, but not a must

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 career?

Playtech's
Corporate IT
unit
is looking for a
Database Administrator (Microsoft SQL Server)
to help ensure the reliability, performance, and security of critical database environments that support our global operations. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and working across diverse infrastructure environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Your influential mission. You will...

• Install, upgrade, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Ensure backups and recovery processes are aligned with company standards.
• Implement improvements in database maintenance, security, and protection.
• Manage incidents, requests, and changes within agreed service levels.
• Collaborate with project managers, developers, system administrators, and business stakeholders.
• Support both development and production environments.
• Document processes and monitor application performance metrics.

Components for success. You...

• Have 5+ years of experience administering Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Have strong experience with MS SQL and T-SQL.
• Bring expertise with Microsoft SQL Server Always-ON Availability groups.
• Posses strong understanding of DMVs, Extended Events, SQL Profiler, and Query.
• Have experience managing Azure-hosted SQL instances.
• Understand SQL backup and recovery strategies.
• Have solid knowledge of Windows operating systems.
• Combine strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Take ownership of your work and can effectively manage competing priorities.

You'll get extra points for...

• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with MySQL or MariaDB.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• PowerShell scripting experience.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications.

CORPORATE IT SERVICES

The Corporate IT Services team supports Playtech's global infrastructure, applications, and business systems. As part of a team of experienced system administrators, application administrators, and database specialists located across Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, and Poland, you'll play a key role in maintaining and improving services used throughout the business. Reporting to the Corporate IT Application Manager, you'll work on a variety of technologies while contributing to projects that have a global impact.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.

About Mirantis
Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Societe Generale, Splunk, and Volkswagen. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

Job Description
We are building a European AI Infrastructure & Platform Operations team responsible for operating large-scale AI infrastructure environments powered by NVIDIA GPUs, high-performance networking, Kubernetes, and next-generation platform technologies.

As a Senior AI Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader within the operations organization, providing deep expertise across infrastructure, networking, platform operations, and service reliability. You will be responsible for driving operational excellence across complex production environments while acting as a key escalation point for critical incidents and challenging technical issues.

This role combines hands-on technical operations with technical leadership, helping shape operational standards, reliability practices, automation initiatives, and the future evolution of AI-powered operational services through platforms such as k0rdent AI.

Responsibilities:
Technical Operations & Service Reliability

• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure, networking, and platform-related incidents.
• Act as a senior escalation point for operational teams during critical service-impacting events.
• Support large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure and high-performance networking environments.
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and hardware-related issues.
• Analyze platform performance, capacity, stability, and reliability trends to proactively identify risks.
• Lead root cause analysis activities and drive long-term corrective actions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, hardware vendors, and datacenter personnel to resolve complex technical challenges.
• Participate in major incident management and service restoration activities.

Platform Operations & Engineering

• Provide technical leadership for Kubernetes platform operations and supporting infrastructure services.
• Drive improvements in platform reliability, observability, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational activities and improve operational efficiency.
• Contribute to operational readiness reviews, infrastructure changes, upgrades, and service introductions.
• Support the adoption and operation of AI-powered infrastructure services and operational capabilities through k0rdent AI.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and operational practices to improve service delivery and platform resilience.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor and support AI Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineers.
• Share technical knowledge through documentation, training sessions, and operational reviews.
• Develop and maintain operational standards, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and best practices.
• Help define operational processes, escalation paths, and service reliability standards.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor during operational planning and service improvement initiatives.

Qualifications
Required Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure operations, platform operations, site reliability engineering, network operations, cloud operations, datacenter operations, or related technical roles.
• Expert-level Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong networking expertise, including experience diagnosing complex performance, connectivity, and reliability issues.
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale production infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading technical investigations and managing complex incidents.
• Experience performing root cause analysis and driving long-term operational improvements.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and service reliability practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills across multiple infrastructure domains.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable:

• NVIDIA GPU infrastructure and accelerated computing platforms.
• InfiniBand networking and NVIDIA UFM.
• AI infrastructure environments.
• HPC environments.
• Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Large-scale Kubernetes operations.
• Infrastructure automation technologies and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Performance analysis and optimisation of distributed infrastructure platforms.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, or team lead responsibilities.

Additional Information
We offer:

• Operate some of the most advanced AI infrastructure environments in production today.
• Work with the latest NVIDIA GPU technologies, Kubernetes platforms, and high-performance networking environments.
• Help define operational standards and reliability practices for next-generation AI infrastructure services.
• Influence the adoption of AI-powered operational capabilities through k0rdent AI.
• Work alongside highly skilled engineers solving complex infrastructure and platform challenges at scale.
• Join a growing organisation investing heavily in AI infrastructure, platform services, and operational innovation.

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