Network Operations Manager

Your Influential Mission: You will

Lead with vision clarity and operational ownership

• Manage coach and develop two network teams: Network Operations & Network Automation
• Set strategic direction and longterm roadmap for network operations aligned with products priorities and business needs 
• Foster a hightrust highperformance culture rooted in operational excellence ownership and continuous learning.

Drive resilient secure and highavailability network operations

• Oversee daily operations for globally distributed network environments supporting missioncritical services. 
• Own queue health prioritization escalation pathways and the full lifecycle of network incidents.
• Lead major incident response triage decisionmaking and crossteam coordination aligned with Playtechs Critical Incident Management framework. 
• Ensure infrastructure is auditready secure patched monitored and consistently documented. 

Architect innovate and modernize the network landscape

• Direct the design and implementation of robust secure faulttolerant global network solutions. 
• Oversee and enforce network security standards (firewalls segmentation access encryption).
• Implement and optimize monitoring & alerting frameworks to increase visibility and reduce MTTR.

Scale through automation IaC and NetDevOps practices

• Drive modern Network Automation InfrastructureasCode and APIdriven operations. 
• Build consistent change management processes leveraging automation to reduce toil and operational risk.
• Partner with Platform Security and Infra Engineering teams to design standardized deployments templates and CI/CDstyle network change pipelines.

Influence and collaborate across the business

• Work closely with senior leaders
• Manage vendor partnerships operational budgets and technology procurement roadmaps.
• Communicate complex network topics clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Qualifications :

Components for Success: You

Technical excellence

• Bring deep expertise in core networking: TCP/IP DNS DHCP routing/switching (BGP STP) VLANs VPNs (IPsec/SSL). 
• Have strong handson experience with:
  • Checkpoint Firewalls
  • F5 Load Balancers
  • Cisco routers & switches
  • DDoS protection technologies
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in advanced troubleshooting performance optimization and faulttolerant design patterns.
• Understand AWS cloud networking VPCs hybrid connectivity and Kubernetes networking (e.g. Calico). 
• Master Network Automation (Python Ansible) APIs IaC methodologies and NetDevOps workflows. 
• Bring strong understanding of monitoring alerting availability and observability tooling.

Leadership & strategic impact

• Have demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary technical teams in largescale environments. 
• Drive strategic planning tech evaluation and roadmap execution.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with clarity structure and communication.
• Influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across distributed global teams.

Youll Get Extra Points For

• Experience designing network automation pipelines endtoend (linting validation compliance deployment).
• Strong scripting capabilities enabling deep automation and tooling development.
• ITIL/ITSM exposure for enterprise operations maturity.
• Past experience with migration projects modernization programs or hybrid cloud architectures.

Thrive in a culture that values

• Responsibility at global scale networks powering 24/7/365 services across continents. 
• Freedom to innovate build the automationfirst network operations model of the future.
• Continuous learning & variety every day brings new challenges technologies and scenarios.
• Wellbeing & balance supported by Playtechs global wellbeing pillars

Additional Information :

How to Apply

Along with your CV please submit a short motivation letter sharing your goals and experience in network operations automation leadership and/or largescale infrastructure environments. You can add it in the Your message to the hiring manager field when applying. 

Network Operations Team  Infrastructure Unit

The Network Operations team forms the backbone of Playtechs global platform reliability. Made of highly skilled engineers automation specialists and network architects the team ensures seamless connectivity rapid incident response and continuous innovation across a massive multicountry network estate. Joining this team means stepping into a collaborative highownership environment where your work directly impacts millions of players worldwide.

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time