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)

Our Benefits:

• Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours

• Private insurance

• Additional 1 Day Off per calendar year

• Sports program compensation

• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme

• Free online English lessons with a native speaker

• Generous referral program

• Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events.