Senior Platform Engineer
Betway Group4 days ago
Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize highly available cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
- Manage Rancher and Kubernetes clusters, including deployment, orchestration, autoscaling, upgrades, security, monitoring, and logging.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and ARM templates.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, performance optimization, capacity planning, and cloud cost management.
- Secure infrastructure and applications through firewalls, access controls, encryption, RBAC, vulnerability monitoring, and security audits.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to support containerized workloads and smoothly operate deployed services.
- Investigate and resolve outages, network failures, security incidents, and other platform issues, including on-call incident response.
- Manage system patching, platform upgrades, Kubernetes cluster upgrades, Rancher updates, backups, and disaster recovery testing.
- Document infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, troubleshooting procedures, and platform best practices.
- Share knowledge and contribute to workflow automation, operational efficiency, and infrastructure resilience.
Requirements
- Typically 3–5 years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and/or relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or Red Hat Certified Engineer.
- Strong experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems and diagnosing infrastructure failures.
- Working experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK for infrastructure and application monitoring.
- Strong understanding of Git, Kubernetes, Rancher, cloud infrastructure, Azure Active Directory, network security groups, and Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Knowledge of RBAC, encryption, network security, container security, security policies, and infrastructure compliance practices.
- Desirable experience includes online gaming or casino platforms, NoSQL database management, backup strategies, and database cluster scaling.
- Proficiency with VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, and ESXi is desirable.
- Experience managing Cloudflare CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, WAF, bot management, rate limiting, and Zero Trust access solutions is desirable.
- Strong communication, collaboration, organization, adaptability, ownership, and problem-solving skills are required.
- Candidates may undergo credit, criminal record, qualification verification, and recruitment assessment checks.
Benefits
- Learning and development programs, performance feedback, employee assistance, leadership training, and team socials.
- Free daily meal, free massages, free on-site gym, free sleep coaching, and on-site barista.
- Group life cover, funeral fund benefit, financial services assistance, Curro school fees benefit, and income continuation benefit.
- Medical aid subsidy and retirement annuity subsidy.
- Referral bonus and an inclusive, international work environment.
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About Betway Group
Betway Group builds and operates online sportsbook, casino, and esports betting platforms for consumers, generating revenue from wagering and gaming. Its portfolio includes the Betway sports-betting brand and the Jackpot City online casino, and it supports operations through affiliated companies such as Win Technologies UK. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Gzira, Malta, Betway is part of Super Group (NYSE: SGHC) and serves multiple regulated markets worldwide.