Q456 | Principal Devops Engineer

About Us
KingMakers is a digital entertainment and sports technology business that owns and operates its own proprietary platform and product portfolio. This scalable capability enables the Group to take a customised approach to entering new industries and markets. The Group entered the African market in 2018 and has already grown to be a major player in the Region – driven by a strong focus on sports entertainment experiences delivered by their in-house digital sport-tech platform, combined with a customer centric approach to distribution across retail and online channels, strong localised regulatory relationships, and a brand portfolio that customers recognise and trust. This tailor-made approach, driven by an exceptional leadership team from a range of high growth sectors, has powered the rapid growth of the Group in the Region.

The Role
As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will join a team focused on ensuring our platforms are highly resilient, extremely low latency and scalable to massive volume. You'll make sure that the DevOps team has a great pipeline from git repository to production system, all of which will be underpinned by a high degree of automation. You will have a long track record of successfully delivering solutions in complex design and development projects. You will be responsible for complex technical problems and identifying solutions with minimal guidance and support. Your role is to deliver technical authority, with influence and respect across multiple squads, disciplines, and projects. You will proactively drive cross-team initiatives, championing KingMakers DevOps principles and guiding others through pragmatic technical choices and trade-offs. You will actively help lead DevOps strategy for your area of the business, not only in the present, but also for the future. You will share your team's passion for producing thoroughly tested and high-quality automation and you will leave no stone unturned to help drive KingMakers' success.

What You Can Expect From The Role

1. Development Operations: Contributes to the core functionality of several systems and influences the DevOps and Engineering roadmap and drives the discussion around deliverables for the sub-domain.
2. Delivering Quality Software: Drives the discussion of the overall DevOps strategy for the domain and contributes to the discussion of the test strategy for the overall domain. Defines the processes and acceptance criteria for the domain.
3. Functional & Business Requirements: Converts ambiguous business requirements into functional and business requirements of the systems that make up the domains they work on. Acts as the technology guru for many of the systems in their domains.
4. Design & Documentation: Creates a high-level design specification for the domain to ensure that it addresses business requirements. Reviews the high-level design of the systems that make up the domain and acts as a technical bar raiser for those designs.