DevOps Engineering Manager

The Role:  

As a DevOps Engineering Manager, you will be joining a Product Engineering organisation that is 100% dedicated to ensuring that our sports and gaming products deliver first-class experiences to our players and agent partners.

You will have a great understanding of the modern DevOps/SRE practices that underpin successful and reliable systems. You will work hand-in-glove with the DevOps Architect and Principal Engineer and leaders from other Squads to design, build, deliver and run our platform, ensuring our output is demonstrably of the highest quality and performance.

Sharing our passion for delivering fantastic experiences, you will leave no stone unturned to help drive KingMakers’ success and to take us to the next level!

What you will be doing:

• Design it: Collaborate with your team to architect and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for better scalability, security, and cost effectiveness.
• Build it: Take a leading role in helping the team to implement metrics and monitoring strategies to ensure system performance and reliability.
• Automate it: Drive automation of testing and deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop talent: Recruit, nurture, and mentor team members to foster a strong and capable engineering team.
• Collaborate: Engage with cross-functional teams to lead and contribute to company-wide initiatives.

What you need for this role:

• Proven ability to lead and manage engineers, with a track record of successful line management of engineers in DevOps specializations.
• Understanding of cloud-based infrastructure and proficiency in modern DevOps practices, specifically with Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps.
• Exceptional communication skills to facilitate collaboration between development, QA, and IT operations teams.
• Bonus points for familiarity with containerization tools (AKS), IaC (Terraform), Monitoring tools (Grafana, Elastic Stack), and/or distributed architectures using messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, where adaptability and quick problem-solving are essential.
• Exceptional attention to detail and effective communication skills, both verbal and written, for seamless collaboration within the team and across departments.

How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:  

As a general rule at KingMakers we want people to be: 

• Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do.  
• Passion & Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness: We embrace a culture of candor and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free. We play the ball, not the person.  
• Innovation & Big Thinking: We always look for ways to innovate whilst not losing sight of what's important. The bigger we think, the more we inspire, the better the outcome.   
• Ownership & Accountability: We think like owners. If we see a problem, we find a solution. We are pragmatic and always strive to do more with less. 
• Speed & Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO. Without doing, there is no progress, we can always change direction but only if we start moving. Fast beats slow.  
• Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door. We always seek opportunities to learn in every situation. No job too small.  
• Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working. We maintain perspective as best as we can, and together, we celebrate our successes.