Infrastructure Engineer

We are representing a leading international sportsbook, gaming, and technology business seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their growing Cape Town team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a highly skilled engineering environment, supporting large-scale online gaming platforms and critical infrastructure that powers some of the most recognised brands in sports betting and gaming. You'll play a key role in ensuring platform stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across production environments. If you are passionate about infrastructure, cloud technologies, automation, and solving complex technical challenges within a fast-paced environment, this role offers excellent exposure, career growth, and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies. What You Will Do: As Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for the administration, monitoring, optimisation, and support of critical online gaming infrastructure, ensuring maximum performance and availability. Key responsibilities include: Design and implement new infrastructure environments and platform setups Support infrastructure automation and continuous process improvement initiatives Test and evaluate new systems and services for production deployment Proactively monitor and support live and staging environments Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure and platform issues Participate in software release and deployment activities Act as an escalation point for technical issues raised by support teams Manage incidents, service requests, problems, and change requests following ITIL best practices Perform detailed log, metrics, and root-cause analysis to identify and prevent recurring issues Collaborate with internal teams and third-party providers to ensure service reliability and performance All About You: We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with strong Linux, cloud, and Kubernetes expertise, combined with excellent troubleshooting and operational support capabilities. You will bring: Strong experience working within Linux-based environments Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills Experience supporting and maintaining production infrastructure Strong networking knowledge and diagnostic capabilities Experience with Kubernetes in production environments (preferably GKE) Experience with cloud platforms including Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, or OpenShift Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, APM, or similar Experience with logging and analytics tools such as Splunk or EFK Experience working with GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps methodologies Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment Highly Desirable: Experience within online gaming, sportsbook, or high-availability environments Exposure to cybersecurity monitoring and threat analysis Experience working with DNS, HTTPS certificates, and infrastructure automation Experience supporting large-scale cloud-native environments Knowledge of ITIL processes and best practices Additional Information Cape Town-based opportunity Hybrid working model (on-site Tuesdays and Thursdays) Opportunity to join a leading international gaming and technology business Work with modern cloud-native infrastructure and technologies Discovery Medical Aid 21 days annual leave Discretionary company performance bonus Collaborative and high-performing engineering culture If you are an Infrastructure Engineer looking to work on large-scale gaming platforms within a fast-growing and innovative technology environment, we would love to tell you more.