Systems Engineer - Senior

SoftSwiss

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