Overview:
SOFTSWISS is hiring a Systems Engineer Tech Lead to join our team. We need an accomplished professional who shares our culture and values.
About Product:
SOFTSWISS Sportsbook Platform
A sports betting platform that allows you to operate a sports betting business online
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Purpose of the role:
The Systems Engineer Tech Lead is responsible for leading the design, reliability, and continuous improvement of the company’s infrastructure across production and staging environments. This role combines strong hands-on technical expertise with people leadership, ensuring stable, secure, and scalable systems while enabling development teams to deliver value efficiently.
Key responsibilities:
- Close communication and proactive collaboration with product development team and stakeholders.
- Consistent quality control of tasks in the “Code Review” status and responsibility for accurate infrastructure documentation for every infrastructure-related change introduced as part of completed work.
- Managing a team of SE & SRE engineers.
- Newcomers onboarding period management (mentoring, work quality control, onboarding tasks selection)
- Support team planning quality improvement process
- Setup and maintain infrastructure for production/staging environments.
- Support and development of Gitlab CI pipelines.
- React to monitoring events (periodical day/night duties).
- Improve infrastructure setup and maintenance processes.
- Manage the infrastructure budget and resource allocation.
- Participate in the design of complex IT systems.
Required Experience:
- 3+ years of experience as a Senior System Engineer or Senior SRE/DevOps.
- Team leading and mentoring experience 3+ year
- Good understanding of Linux-like operating systems (Administration and troubleshooting)
- Experience with configuration management systems (Ansible / Saltstack / Terraform / Pulumi).
- Experience with Kubernetes+Helm.
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with Postgres
- Experience with configuration GItlab CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with domain WAF/WAAP management
- Experience with monitoring systems (Prometheus stack/Zabbix)
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-powered tools and platforms to optimize workflows and support decision-making.
- Manage the infrastructure budget and resource allocation.
- Intermediate or higher English (B1+).
Tech Stack:
- Saltstack
- Terraform/Pulumi
- Kubernetes
- Postgresql
- Kafka
- Redis
- Gitlab
- Vault
- ELK
- Zabbix/ Prometheus + Grafana
Nice to have:
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Experience with Bash/Python/Go languages.
- Experience with log aggregating systems (ELK/EFK stack)
- Experience with cloud provider services
- Experience with workflow in Agile like framework (Kanban/Scrum)
Learn more about our hiring process here – what to expect, how to prepare, and what makes SOFTSWISS different.