Lead Infrastructure Engineer
GiG is looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to assume the role of Infrastructure Team Lead within the Shared Technology Services department. As an Infrastructure Team Lead, the individual will play a pivotal role in overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of the IT infrastructure, encompassing both cloud-based and on-premises solutions, with a specific focus on Kubernetes environments.
This position requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership qualities, technical expertise, and the ability to drive the team towards operational excellence.
- Lead, mentor, and resource the infrastructure team to foster a high-performance culture and hit project targets.
- Design scalable hybrid roadmaps and Kubernetes-centric system architectures aligned with business goals.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation using Ansible and Terraform to streamline deployments.
- Maintain performance, monitoring, and uptime across physical servers, networks, storage, and Kubernetes clusters.
- Manage incident response and off-hours maintenance.
- Partner with InfoSec to enforce security controls, run risk assessments, and maintain audit readiness.
- Evaluate third-party tools and manage technology partner relationships to ensure strict SLA compliance.
- Proven experience leading infrastructure or operations teams, with a track record of establishing key operational metrics (e.g., MTTR/MTTD, uptime SLAs, cloud spend optimization, and incident response frameworks) (required).
- Exceptional organizational, resource-allocation, and project management skills to lead complex technical initiatives from inception to delivery (required).
- Deep knowledge of on-premises hardware (physical servers, SAN/NAS storage, enterprise networking) combined with expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible (required).
- Hands-on experience architecting and administering multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) across both Linux and Windows operating systems (required).
- CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect (nice-to-have).
- RHCSA/RHCE, LPIC, VMware VCP-DCV, or legacy MCSA/MCSE (nice-to-have).
- CCNA/CCNP or ITIL Foundation/Practitioner (nice-to-have).
- Great career development opportunities
- Hybrid working model
- International Health Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time - 1 day off per year
Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) is a business-to-business supplier of cloud-based iGaming platform and sportsbook technology, headquartered in St Julian's, Malta. The company provides a player-account-management platform, a sportsbook and real-time data tools to online gambling operators across more than 30 regulated markets. Following a 2024 strategic split that separated its media arm (now Gentoo Media), GiG operates as GiG Software, focused on platform and sportsbook products. It maintains offices across Malta, Spain, the UK, Sweden, Brazil, Canada and the Philippines.