Manager Software Engineering
Betway is looking for a Manager Software Engineering to establish and own a central DevOps and platform engineering practice. The role involves taking a hands-on approach to continuous integration and delivery, setting the standards for development teams, and leading the design and build-out of a Kubernetes platform across both on-premise and Azure cloud environments.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Department Head and development teams to provide a mature platform with elastic, automated, and container-native capabilities. This initiative aims to enable faster launches, on-demand scaling, and expansion into new markets through improved automation and architectural efficiency.
- Own CI/CD and platform standards
- Design, build and own central CI/CD pipelines, delivering consistent, governed, self-service delivery across the estate.
- Standardise build, test, release and rollback patterns, including blue-green and canary deployments, so every team ships safely and fast.
- Codify infrastructure and configuration as code, and embed automated quality, security and compliance gates into the pipeline.
- Establish observability, monitoring and alerting as first-class parts of the platform, not afterthoughts.
- Build and run Kubernetes on-prem and Azure
- Lead the design and build-out of new Kubernetes infrastructure on-premise, and the option to extend or migrate workloads to Azure cloud (AKS).
- Containerise existing workloads and bring them onto a modern, automated container platform.
- Apply sound architecture patterns at scale, keeping transactional data outside the cluster, placing cache and config services appropriately, and offloading TLS at the edge.
- Choose virtualisation and infrastructure approaches that maximise performance and avoid unnecessary overhead.
- Deliver automatic horizontal scale-up and scale-down, so capacity follows demand without manual intervention.
- Prove it properly: lab → PoC → limited production → migration, validating network path, throughput, failover and debuggability at each gate.
- Lead, align and enable
- Act as the platform owner and technical authority for DevOps practice across the estate.
- Partner with development, data and infrastructure teams to align toolchains and remove deployment toil.
- Mentor engineers and raise automation maturity across teams.
- Help shape platform decisions on streaming, caching, data tiering for scale, and build-vs-buy.
- Clear, confident communication (written and verbal), and the ability to breakdown complex ideas (required)
- A collaborative mindset, working smoothly with cross‑functional teams to hit shared goals (required)
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects without dropping the ball (required)
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to high‑quality work (required)
- Adaptability – you stay sharp, productive and positive in fast‑moving environments (required)
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and owning end-to-end pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar), including blue-green/canary deployment strategies (required)
- Strong production experience building and operating Kubernetes both on-premise (on your own hardware) and on a managed cloud service, ideally Azure AKS. You can stand up a cluster from scratch and run it at scale (required)
- Docker, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep or equivalent) (required)
- Solid command of Azure, networking, AKS, identity, and cost-aware architecture (required)
- Comfortable across both Linux and Windows Server environments (required)
- Working knowledge of relational databases, in-memory caches and event streaming in production, and the judgement to keep transactional data outside the cluster (required)
- Load balancing, TLS termination/offload, firewalls and network segmentation, enough to design a cluster that sits correctly behind enterprise edge components (required)
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or equivalent monitoring, logging and alerting stacks (required)
- You can set platform standards, influence development teams, and make a clear, pragmatic case for change at scale (required)
- In-depth knowledge of sports betting markets, including odds calculation, betting types and market trends (nice-to-have)
- Previous experience in the online gaming or casino industry, with a strong understanding of player behaviour and industry regulations (nice-to-have)
- Familiarity with gambling regulations and compliance requirements in various jurisdictions, ensuring adherence to legal standards (nice-to-have)
- Experience in developing and executing customer retention strategies (nice-to-have)
- CKA / CKAD or equivalent Kubernetes certification (nice-to-have)
- Experience containerising legacy web and application workloads (nice-to-have)
- Experience with enterprise virtualisation platforms (nice-to-have)
- Regulated, high-availability or high-throughput environments (gaming, fintech, payments) (nice-to-have)
- Service mesh, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux) and policy-as-code (nice-to-have)
- Supergrowth is real here. Our learning and development programmes give you the tools, training and opportunities to level up fast.
- Our Performance tool ensures you get meaningful feedback to support your development and superdrive your career.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers resources for you and your family.
Betway Group is an online gambling operator founded in 2006 and part of Super Group, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SGHC. It provides entertainment across sports betting, casino and esports betting, built on proprietary and latest-generation technologies. The company offers interactive gaming experiences spanning pre-game and live sports betting, esports and casino in a regulated, responsible environment. Betway is headquartered in Gzira, Malta, and operates across multiple international markets.