DevOps Engineer

GOAT Interactive is the online division of the Editec Group. The objective of GOAT Interactive is to use the vast knowledge of Africa, combined with digital excellence, to ensure that all of our brands occupy the podium positions in the countries we operate in. With a growing presence in 22 countries, GOAT represents the largest group of gaming brands on the continent.

To help us continue on our already impressive growth trajectory, we’re on the lookout for a Senior Customer Insight Analyst. This person will help us build a data led decision making culture; focusing on the impact of promotional activity and web development, to deliver an improved customer experience, as well as commercial value to the business.

Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be an important member of a high performing Scrum team, delivering high-quality software and high-quality iterative releases. You will be work alongside in-house and 3rd party offshore Snr DevOps, Java and FE Devs.

• Creating CI/CD infrastructure.
• Configuration of new environments using best practices, in a way that work is repeatable for platform clients.
• Communication with developers/business/solution architect to align CI/CD requirements.
• Setup monitoring and logs collection for wide range of application and infrastructure metrics.
• Take part in handover to support activities including acting as L2/L3 support for solution changes or bug fixing during support phase.
• Document technical knowledge in way that it improves people comprehension in relevant area.

Job Requirements

• At least 3 years of DevOps experience
• Extensive experience with leading cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS
• Proficient in managing cloud services including EC2, S3, VPC (AWS), Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and Kubernetes
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes cluster management
• CDN(Cloudflare)
• Terraform
• Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL and CouchDB
• CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Alerting and dashboards for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting
• Monitoring and logging solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, and Cloud Monitoring (AWS/GCP).
• Security best practices and experience in implementing security controls, data protection and compliance
• Bash and Groovy
• Self-organized and able to quickly learn new technologies and paradigms.

Desirable:

• Experience with JIRA, and Confluence.
• Experience in gambling or online gaming.