Engineering Manager, DevOps Platform

Job Overview

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Engineering Manager for our DevOps Platform Team – someone who is ready to take ownership and lead from the front in maintaining smooth and secure operations across our infrastructure and services. In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping how our development teams build, ship, and operate their services at scale. As a leader in our DevOps Platform team, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, driving excellence in our CI/CD processes and enabling a smooth transition for internal teams to containerized environments. Our mission is to ensure stable, reliable, and optimized environments that power the development and operations of all Wargaming studios worldwide – connecting us to a global audience of over 100 million players. This is more than a job – it’s a chance to bring your experience to the next level and make a lasting impact.

What will you do?

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers providing regular feedback and career growth support.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-accountability engineering culture.
• Plan, prioritize, and track team activities and objectives aligned with strategic goals.

Operational Excellence

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows that empower internal teams to develop, deliver, and scale products efficiently.
• Provide strong support for internal product teams as they transition to Kubernetes, helping them adopt containerization and modern deployment practices.
• Drive automation of deployments, configuration, and operational tasks to reduce manual efforts and increase system reliability.
• Ensure incident response and resolution is fast, effective, and well-documented. Support the team in managing on-call rotations. 

Reliability & Optimization

• Lead initiatives to optimize performance, resource usage, and reliability of products and their designed services.
• Work closely with development, QA, Products teams to ensure seamless integration and high service uptime.
• Identify pain points and create long-term solutions for sustainable infrastructure.
• Provide consultancy and support to internal teams on the best practices for service delivery.
• Communicate effectively across teams and management, providing transparency into service stability, incident status, and delivery progress.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience (5+ years) in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related field, with at least 1–2 years in leadership.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, container orchestration and infrastructure automation
• Deep understanding of system monitoring tools · Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python, or Go) and familiarity with cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent problem-solving and incident management skills.
• Effective communication and leadership qualities with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.

The salary range for this role in Vilnius is EUR 7000-9000 monthly gross.

Benefits

Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Vilnius include:

• Additional paid time off 
• Sick Leave Compensation
• Pregnancy and Childbirth Leave Benefit  
• Career development and education opportunities within the company
• Meal Allowance
• Premium Private Health Care 
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Perks discounts platform (over 450 exclusive discounts)
• Personal Gaming Account
• Coffee, fruits, and snacks in the office
• Company events 
• Seniority Awards  
• Referral program - You can recommend the best talents to the company and receive a reward  

Please submit your CV in English to ensure smooth processing and review.