About us
KingMakers is a digital entertainment and sports technology business that owns and operates its own proprietary platform and product portfolio. This scalable capability enables the Group to take a customised approach to entering new industries and markets.
The Group entered the African market in 2018 and has already grown to be a major player in the Region – driven by a strong focus on sports entertainment experiences delivered by their in-house digital sport-tech platform, combined with a customer centric approach to distribution across retail and online channels, strong localised regulatory relationships, and a brand portfolio that customers recognise and trust.
This tailor-made approach, driven by an exceptional leadership team from a range of high growth sectors, has powered the rapid growth of the Group in the Region.
The Role
As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will join a team focused on ensuring our platforms are highly resilient, extremely low latency and scalable to massive volume. You'll make sure that the DevOps team has a great pipeline from git repository to production system, all of which will be underpinned by a high degree of automation.
You will have a long track record of successfully delivering solutions in complex design and development projects. You will be responsible for complex technical problems and identifying solutions with minimal guidance and support. Your role is to deliver technical authority, with influence and respect across multiple squads, disciplines, and projects. You will proactively drive cross-team initiatives, championing KingMakers DevOps principles and guiding others through pragmatic technical choices and trade-offs. You will actively help lead DevOps strategy for their area of the business, not only in the present, but also for the future.
You will share your team's passion for producing thoroughly tested and high-quality automation and you will leave no stone unturned to help drive KingMakers' success.
What you can expect from the role
Development Operations - Contributes to the core functionality of several Defines the technical vision for several systems and influences the DevOps and Engineering roadmap and drives the discussion around deliverables for the sub-domain.
Delivering Quality Software - Drives the discussion of the overall DevOps strategy for the domain and contributes to the discussion of the test strategy for the overall domain. Defines the processes and acceptance criteria for the domain.
Functional & Business Requirements - Converts ambiguous business requirements into functional and business requirements of the systems that make up the domains they work on. Acts as the technology guru for many of the systems in their domains.
Design & Documentation - Creates a high-level design specification for the domain to ensure that it addresses business requirements. Reviews the high-level design of the systems that make up the domain and acts as a technical bar raiser for those designs.
Some of what you will be doing
On-call (PagerDuty) rotation to respond to incidents that impact Betking.com availability and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening.
Run our infrastructure with Terraform, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
Improve operational processes (such as deployments and upgrades) to make them as boring as possible.
Design, build and maintain core infrastructure that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users.
Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
Plan the growth of Kingmakers' infrastructure.
What you need for this role's and
Strong programming skills in at least one language (C#, Go, Python preferable).
In-depth understanding of development process and software life cycle.
Familiar with Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps.
Experience working with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS).
Experience using Git-based repositories.
Experience in Nginx and Load Balancing technologies.
Experience working with Logs, Metrics and Traces (Telemetry), preferably using Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic stack.
Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
Experience working with both RDBMS and NoSQL technologies. Preferably with MS SQL Server.
Deep understanding of Windows and Linux environments
Scripting skills in PowerShell and Bash.
Strong Understanding of TCP and HTTP – including constructing requests and headers with tools like Postman.
Focus on security, performance, and efficiency.
Ability to work well in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to pick up new skill sets quickly.
A passion for detail and problem solving, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
An urge to document everything so that there is no need to learn the same thing twice.
Projects you could work on
Coding infrastructure automation with Terraform and Azure DevOps Pipelines.
Improving our Prometheus monitoring and building new metrics.
Improving our observability using Grafana, Kibana and Azure Monitoring.
Improving our logging infrastructure using the Elastic Stack and Grafana Cloud.
Develop a relationship with development squads:
Help to automate the infrastructure needed for their products.
Help to formulate SLOs and SLIs to improve reliability and observability.
Help to ensure world-class support of their products using alerting platforms.
Who we are – Expectations for fulfilling your role:
As a general rule at KingMakers we want people to be:
Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do.
Passion & Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.
Openness, Honesty & Directness: We embrace a culture of candor and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free. We play the ball, not the person.
Innovation & Big Thinking: We always look for ways to innovate whilst not losing sight of what's important. The bigger we think, the more we inspire, the better the outcome.
Ownership & Accountability: We think like owners. If we see a problem, we find a solution. We are pragmatic and always strive to do more with less.
Speed & Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO. Without doing, there is no progress, we can always change direction but only if we start moving. Fast beats slow.
Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door. We always seek opportunities to learn in every situation. No job too small.
Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working. We maintain perspective as best as we can, and together, we celebrate our successes.
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