Principal DevOps Engineer

KingMakers • Other US Location

Company

KingMakers

Location

Other US Location

Type

Full Time

Job Description

We are KingMakers, a customer-centric tech startup, dedicated to creating innovative products that entertain our customers and keep them engaged both online and through our agency operations. 

Since the successful launch of our first product, BetKing, in 2018, we have continued our momentum and will soon be introducing our newest offering, SuperSportBet, in South Africa. In partnership with the Multichoice Group and SuperSport, SuperSportBet enhances the passion that sports fans have for the game with a world-class sports betting and casino experience. 

As our Kingdom expands, we proudly stand as the leading Sports and Digital Entertainment platform in Africa, and we are still actively hiring an exceptional team of Creators and Innovators across Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East. 

There has never been a better time to join our Kingdom than today! 

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 be joining a team focused on ensuring that our platforms are highly resilient, extremely low latency and scalable to massive volume. You’ll make sure that the engineering teams have a great pipeline from git repository to production system, all of which will be underpinned by a high degree of automation.

With a great understanding of modern engineering, infrastructure and test automation practices that underpin highly successful distributed transactional solutions, you will work directly with your engineering team to design, build, deliver and support our expanding product portfolio. 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

  • Work closely with the DevOps Architect to plot the future of infrastructure, monitoring, automation (to name a few streams) at KingMakers.
  • Create innovative solutions that push the technical abilities at KingMakers ahead of the pack.
  • Run our infrastructure with Terraform, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
  • Mentor and develop DevOps team members into senior levels.
  • 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

  • Strong programming skills in at least one language (C#, Go, Python preferable).
  • Ability to create innovative solutions that push KingMakers’ technical abilities ahead of the pack.
  • In-depth understanding of development process and software life cycle.
  • Familiar with Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps.
  • Experience using Git-based repositories.
  • Experience in Nginx and Load Balancing technologies.
  • Strong experience working with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS).
  • Strong experience working with Logs, Metrics and Traces (Telemetry), preferably using Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic stack.
  • Strong 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.
  • 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.

Beyond our great company benefits and competitive salaries, we recognize that to grow sustainably and thrive positively we need to engage the right talent because our people are a merit to our success. We have an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and where everybody has a seat at the table.

So, what are you waiting for? Click apply and join our Kingdom today!

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08/13/2024

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