devops-engineer

KingMakers is the leading Sports and Digital Entertainment platform in Africa, dedicated to engaging and rewarding audiences through innovative technology. By providing unique sports and digital entertainment experiences, KingMakers connects fans and communities to the sports and games they love. The company emphasizes customer insight and talent to enhance the enjoyment of African sports fans, while also fostering community involvement through its agent network.

KingMakers is the leading sports and digital entertainment platform company across the African continent.
 
We are focused on creating opportunity. Opportunity that allows individuals and communities to realise their dreams – to be the best they can be. Opportunities to grow, to change, to build a business, to make a difference. Opportunity for individuals. Opportunity for our communities.
 
Our proprietary technology, delivered through our agency and online platforms, brings sports fans and their communities closer to the games they love.
 
We do this by building products and content experiences that delight our customers daily, that empower our partners and sustain their communities.
  
That’s why at the heart of KingMakers is a passion to empower individuals and to give back to the community. We do this by allowing agents in our network to grow their own business and in so doing enrich the communities in which we operate.
 
Our goal is always to put the customer first : by combining technology, customer insight and talent we strive to give African sports fans a superior, more rewarding and engaging experience, online, offline 24/7.

Our Values:
• Customer Focus
• Passion & Dedication  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness
• Innovation & Big Thinking
• Ownership & Accountability
• Speed & Focus
• Low Ego
• Fun


KingMakers

- DevOps
- Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Infrastructure & Networking
- Security & Information Security
- Database Administration
- Corporate IT

You will ensure our platforms remain scalable, secure, resilient and cost-efficient as we expand into new markets.

This role requires commercial awareness, organisational leadership and strong technical credibility, empowering expert teams while setting clear standards and strategic direction.

**Platform & Infrastructure Strategy**
- Define and evolve our cloud and infrastructure strategy across Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Cloudflare, Terraform and our observability stack.
- You are accountable for reliability, uptime, scalability and production resilience across multiple regions.

**Security & Risk Leadership**
- Lead cybersecurity and information security strategy across the organisation.
- Establish governance, risk management and operational controls that are robust, without slowing product velocity.

**Commercial & Cost Ownership**
- Own infrastructure budgets, cost optimisation and vendor relationships.
- Lead contract negotiations and renewals, ensuring efficiency, value for money and long-term sustainability of our platform investment.

**Organisational & People Leadership**
- Lead and develop senior managers and technical leaders across DevOps, Infrastructure, Security and Corporate IT.
- Set clear goals and performance standards aligned with company strategy.
- Empower high-performing teams without micromanagement.

**Strategic Enablement**
- Translate business strategy into pragmatic, technically sound execution.
- Identify structural improvements, platform modernisation initiatives and operational enhancements that unlock scale and long-term resilience.

**Our Technology Environment**
We operate with modern, cloud-native technologies including:
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes (AKS)
- Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Cloudflare
- Observability stacks (Grafana and related tooling)
- ClickHouse and data infrastructure platforms
- CI/CD and modern DevOps practices

This role requires a deep understanding of how platform engineering enables product teams to move faster, safer and at scale.

Director of DevOps and Infrastructure

Director of DevOps & Infrastructure at KingMakers overseeing platform and infrastructure strategy for major brands. Leading cross-functional teams in a cloud-native technology environment.

Old Mutual Limited is a listed company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and has secondary listings on the London, Malawi, Namibia and Zimbabwe stock exchanges. As a Pan-African financial services company, we are focused on Africa, her needs and her people.

Together with you, we have educated our children, given more homes warmth and light, empowered small businesses and improved infrastructure in Africa. Our story will continue #WithAfricaForAfrica.

Old Mutual Limited

• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and security.
• Monitor cloud systems and services to ensure optimal performance.
• Respond to and resolve cloud-related incidents and service request per SLA.
• Implement and manage cloud automation tools to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
• Implement and manage monitoring systems and monitoring reporting.
• Monitor, report and manage cloud platform and shared services capacity.
• Collaborate with development and engineering teams to support cloud-based applications and services.
• Assist in the deployment, configuration, and management of cloud resources.
• Perform regular system maintenance, updates, backups and patching to keep cloud environments secure and up-to-date.
• Develop and maintain documentation for cloud operations processes and procedures.
• Optimize cloud resource usage and costs, providing recommendations for improvements.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and industry standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical cloud operations.

Cloud Operations Engineer

Cloud Operations Engineer responsible for maintaining cloud infrastructure for Old Mutual. Collaborating with teams for optimal system performance and compliance in cloud operations.

• Provide technical leadership across platform and product engineering, setting the direction for observability, reliability, security, and platform architecture.
• Contribute hands-on to critical product and platform codebases (primarily .NET and React), focusing on high-leverage improvements rather than feature throughput.
• Define and drive the organisation-wide observability strategy, including standards and best practices for OpenTelemetry (OTEL), telemetry pipelines, and signal quality.
• Partner with senior engineers and engineering leadership to design scalable, resilient infrastructure using Terraform, AKS, and Azure.
• Establish and champion security-by-default practices across code, infrastructure, and CI/CD — influencing architecture, not just implementation.
• Lead the definition of SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies, ensuring reliability is measurable, actionable, and aligned with business outcomes.
• Set standards for monitoring and dashboards in Grafana, ensuring clarity, signal quality, and consistency across teams.
• Design and build shared tooling, platforms, and libraries that materially improve developer productivity and reduce cognitive load.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor and bridge between product engineering, platform engineering, and leadership — shaping decisions through influence rather than authority.
• Mentor senior engineers and help raise the overall engineering bar through design reviews, architectural guidance, and pragmatic coaching.


Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer at KingMakers focusing on coding and infrastructure within product squads. Leading technical improvements in observability, reliability, and performance across platforms.

MagicOrange is an enterprise B2B SaaS platform that delivers IT Financial Management (ITFM), FinOps and Enterprise Financial Management (EFM) capabilities to help large organizations gain clear cost transparency across cloud, on‑premises and hybrid environments. The platform ties IT cost to business value, supports showback/chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, predictive modeling and unit economics, and uses data integrations and applied AI to drive cost optimisation and informed investment decisions.

MagicOrange is a cloud-native, enterprise IT Financial Management solution, incorporating an intuitive cost allocation platform to correlate and assign IT, shared services and direct divisional spend to business activities at scale 

- Optimisation: Actionable insights inform investment and prioritisation decisions to improve utilisation, performance and profitability 

- Alignment: Understand the business value of IT and drive accountability and ownership in the business 

- Efficiency: Materially improve process efficiency and performance; shorten the budget cycle, consolidate cost & compute models at speed  

Plan your IT Financial Management journey with an established and Gartner recognised ITFM solution like MagicOrange.

MagicOrange

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using Azure and Terraform (or Bicep).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar) for code and data services.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and monitoring across dev, test, and production.
• Implement best practices in monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Grafana, or equivalent tools.
• Support SRE principles for uptime, performance, and incident response.
• Manage infrastructure costs effectively, aligned with MagicOrange’s FinOps principles.
• Work closely with data engineers and AI teams to support Databricks, AI Foundry, and ML model deployments.
• Contribute to infrastructure solutions that enable AI-driven automation and data pipelines.
• Implement DevSecOps best practices, ensuring secure configurations, access controls, and compliance with SOC 2 and GDPR.
• Continuously improve vulnerability scanning and dependency management.

DevOps – Platform Engineer

DevOps Engineer focusing on Azure and Databricks cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Key in automating and securing AI-driven solutions in a high-growth SaaS environment.

Robin AI is a leader in legal AI. Our Legal AI Assistant is used by hundreds of businesses globally to harness the power of generative AI for legal. We empower legal teams and lawyers to make contract processes effortless. 
We believe in a world where law moves at the speed of business. We are backed by Google, Episode 1, Plural and Forward Partners. 
If you’d like to join us on our exciting journey to make contracts simple for everyone, please take a look at our careers page. We're hiring in London and New York!


Robin AI

• Lead and mentor a team of two SRE Engineers, providing technical guidance and career development
• Work closely with the CTO to define and implement the technical infrastructure roadmap
• Establish monitoring strategies and implement solutions to enhance reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
• Collaborate with development team leads to optimise build, test, and deployment processes
• Lead incident response and establish processes for troubleshooting production issues
• Organise and oversee on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 system reliability
• Drive documentation standards and knowledge sharing within the engineering organisation

Lead SRE

Lead SRE Team managing two engineers and cloud infrastructure for Robin AI's Legal AI platform. Drive monitoring strategies for high availability and reliability of services while collaborating with CTO.

Collinson is a global family-run business that specializes in enhancing the travel experience for customers worldwide. With a workforce of over 1,800 people, Collinson offers market-leading airport experiences through Priority Pass, develops customer loyalty and engagement programs, and provides insurance solutions to more than 40 million customers. The company is committed to innovation and values-driven operations, and it prides itself on creating a dynamic and inclusive workplace. Collinson's expertise spans airport lounge services, travel assistance, and insurance sectors, ensuring safe, secure, and enriching travel experiences.

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide. We deliver market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million end consumers.  

We are also the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,400+ lounges and travel experiences, helping to elevate the journey into something special.   

Private ownership means we can focus on the values that are important to us. These drive everything we do and result in us acting with integrity and agility while making long-term investments and decisions.

Collinson

•  Design, implement, and optimise AWS infrastructure through hands-on development using Infrastructure as Code tools.
•  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate fast, secure and seamless deployments.
•  Ensure high availability, scalability, and resilience of our platform, leveraging managed services.
•  Implement and manage proactive observability using DataDog and other tools to monitor system health, performance, and security.
•  Apply cloud and security best practices, including patching and secure configuration of networking, encryption (at rest and in transit), secrets and identity/access management.
•  Contribute ideas and solutions to improve our DevOps processes.
•  If you have ideas on how to embed AI into our DevOps processes, you’ll have the space to explore them.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer building scalable, reliable platforms at Collinson. Empowering cloud-native journey with automation, security, and AI integration.

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Director of DevOps and Infrastructure

KingMakers

Cloud Operations Engineer

Old Mutual Limited

Principal DevOps Engineer

KingMakers

DevOps – Platform Engineer

MagicOrange

Lead SRE

Robin AI

DevOps Engineer

Collinson