Systems Engineer – Tech lead

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.