Job Description

Overview

SOFTSWISS is looking for a skilled Systems Engineer to join our team and help build, maintain, and evolve reliable infrastructure for our platform.

The Sportsbook team develops a powerful software platform that enables clients to launch and manage successful online sports betting businesses. We are looking for a motivated professional who is passionate about infrastructure, automation, and building scalable solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Communication and collaboration with product development team and stakeholders
• Design, deployment and management of Kubernetes platform based on Cluster API (bare-metal and cloud providers)
• Setup and maintenance of infrastructure for production/staging environments
• Design, deployment and management of GitLab CI pipelines, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code
• React to monitoring events (periodic on-call duties day/night)
• Optimization of infrastructure maintenance and support processes
• Participation in the design of complex IT systems

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a System Engineer, SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineer
• Deep understanding of Linux-like operating systems (administration and troubleshooting)
• Practical experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI)
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure (various hosting providers)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane)
• Experience with GitOps approach (Flux, ArgoCD)
• Experience with GitLab/GitHub CI/CD pipelines setup and maintenance
• Experience with configuration management systems (Ansible, Saltstack)
• Experience with cdn, traffic and domain management (CloudFlare, Fastly, Akamai, AWS CloudFront/Route53)
• Experience with monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana and similar)
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL cluster (Patroni, CNPG)
• Practical experience with Kafka management (Kafka, Strimzi)
• English and Russian language B1+ level (Intermediate+)

Nice to have

• Experience with Cluster API (CAPI) and fleet controllers (Sveltos, Fleet)
• Experience with Crossplane
• Experience with Oracle OCI
• Understanding of distributed systems
• Programming skills in Bash, Python or Go
• Experience working in Agile methodologies (Kanban, Scrum)
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-powered tools and platforms to optimize workflows

Technology Stack

• Kubernetes
• Cluster API (CAPI)
• Sveltos
• Saltstack / salt API
• PostgreSQL / Patroni / CNPG
• Kafka / Strimzi
• Redis
• GitLab
• Vault / ESO
• Terraform / Pulumi / Crossplane
• ELK Stack
• Prometheus + Grafana
• Gateway API / Envoy gateway
• Haproxy / Nginx