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
Apply now by sending your CV to contact@initiateinternational.com for this Infrastructure Engineer role. If you wish to view additional Gaming, Betting, & Gambling jobs, please click through to our job section.
