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
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Playtech’s System Security team is looking for a proactive System and AI Security Engineer to join our team, and be a part of our journey, securing our Systems as well as playing a part in our Secure AI Adoption within the company, taking part in various projects and initiatives in various areas.
In this role, you will primarily focus on infrastructure security, including EDR, email security gateways, and endpoint hardening, while collaborating closely with development, security, and teams adopting AI. Due to the nature of the position, hands-on experience securing and administering platforms that support AI and agentic workloads is essential. Experience with containerization, virtualization, CI/CD pipelines, and related technologies is highly desirable.
We are looking for someone collaborative, proactive, and curious, with a strong sense of ownership and a continuous learning mindset. This is a great opportunity to contribute to Playtech’s AI security journey and help shape how AI is adopted securely across the business.
Your influential mission. You will...
Review the AI systems and infrastructure, including local and cloud LLM deployments, gateways, vector stores, and agentic / MCP components, and provide clear recommendations on required hardening measures and areas for improvement.
Design, Implement, Support and Improve various technologies within the team, and our area of responsibility (EDR, Proxy, Email Security, Endpoint Hardening)
Participate in, and support Security Risk Assessments, audits and Compliance reviews required by various standards and laws.
Assess existing guardrails and controls, such as input/output filtering, prompt-injection defences, rate limiting, and authentication, against industry best practice, provide recommendations to strengthen their effectiveness and drive the implementation of improvements and new controls to ensure the secure and responsible use of AI.
Recommend and prioritize hardening across the infrastructure behind self-hosted and cloud-based LLMs, and guide teams through remediation.
Evaluate the AI supply chain, such as model provenance, AIBOM/SBOM, dependency and artifact scanning, and provide recommendations to address gaps (Including Vibe Coded Applications).
Define standards, reference patterns, and best-practice guidance to ensure teams across Playtech build and operate AI securely.
Review logging, observability, and detection coverage for AI workloads mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS, and recommend enhancements to ensure the SOC can effectively monitor and respond across the full AI attack surface.
Assess identity, access, and secrets management for models, tools, and data, advising on least-privilege improvements.
Support compliance in a regulated environment with audit-ready assessments, evidence, and documentation.
Drive innovation within the team — Investigate and where possible implement Agentic AI usage within the unit, to optimize time consuming activitie
